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The unified address bar and search box, the OmniBox, is one of Chrome's trademark inventions and Chrome is sticking to its guns on the selection. The box acts as a search box but also as an address bar, though the emphasis is on search and for obvious reasons.If you type in a URL, or one is auto-completed from y... |
26 May 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Google has been adding all sorts of interesting locations to Street View. It's expanding to new countries, but also going to places where the regular Street View cars can't, places like race tracks.One of the latest additions is one of the most famous tracks in the US, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway h... |
26 May 2012
13:10 GMT |
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Google is the biggest search engine in the world and also has the largest ad network. As you can imagine, there are plenty of people trying to game and abuse both. But, whereas Google can't be responsible for the sites found in search, it is responsible for the ads it serves, even though those ads were created b... |
26 May 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Webconverger, an evolution of the hybrid client for deployment in places like offices or Internet cafes, where only web applications are used, is now at version 13.0. Webconverger 13.0 arrived just a couple of months after the previous version and has some pretty important changes, such as: • DuckDuckGo searc... |
26 May 2012
05:23 GMT |
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At first it was a picture, now it's an entire video. Google is not done teasing us with glimpses of its Android-powered glasses and has now made public a video taken with the prototype devices. Granted, glimpses may not be the most accurate word, since the glasses themselves are never shown. We did get a chance... |
25 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google has recently unveiled data on copyright takedown requests it receives for its search engine. Being one of the largest sites in the world and the largest search engine means that it gets a lot of these requests. In fact, it got 1.2 million just last month. All of these are reviewed by hand, on average in about ... |
25 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Facebook is growing stronger and stronger and getting a lot of people to spend a lot of time on the site, but it's still not the biggest website, at least not in the US.
Google still holds the title, unsurprisingly, though Facebook is coming up the ranks. It's only in fourth place though, well behind even... |
25 May 2012
11:10 GMT |
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Augmented-reality glasses is Google’s vision where everybody wears glasses with HD cameras integrated, always connected to the internet. The first video with an early prototype of such a device has reportedly surfaced on the internet. Before listening to Google’s distraction about how advantageous it is ... |
25 May 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Google has been working on Google+ for more than a year now. It boasted that new features were being added all the time and changes made according to feedback. The site's recently gotten a major redesign and so have the mobile apps. But that's not to say there's not a lot more to be done.
In fact, som... |
25 May 2012
09:40 GMT |
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One year ago, Google released In-app Billing on Android Market, now known as Google Play Store. The option gave developers the possibility to sell their apps and receive feedback easier than before.
Since its launch, In-app Billing greatly improved Google Play users’ experience and allowed devs to monetize the... |
25 May 2012
07:34 GMT |
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Most Google products, especially the ones as popular as Gmail, are available in a lot of languages, the vast majority of internet users can find their native or prefered language there.
But that doesn't mean it can't add more. The latest two additions to the list of Gmail translations are Welsh and Latin ... |
25 May 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Google has added more data to its Transparency Report, which lists countries that request data on users from the company or request that Google take down some data or censor results.
The company is legally required to obey the requests, though it fights some. But at the very least it can reveal as much data as it&#... |
25 May 2012
07:10 GMT |
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Google has become the go-to target for everything that's "bad" about the internet. The problem is that, for many people, Google "is" the internet. Those are the people that type "facebook.com" into Google Search to get to the social network. Unfortunately, more often than anyone would like, these are the same p... |
24 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Google's Eric Schmidt has been relegated mostly to public relations stuff, but that doesn't mean he's not doing some interesting things for the company. For one, it's getting the UK government to reconsider computer science education and science education in general.
Not only that, Google is lea... |
24 May 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google has gotten around to updating the Google+ Android app, the iPhone version was updated first, a couple of weeks ago. But Google said to hang tight, the Android version is coming and it's going to be even better.
The most obvious update is the redesign, the app looks a lot better and it puts a much greate... |
24 May 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Google+ for Android has just become a brighter and better application thanks to the latest update delivered by Google. According to the developers, the update brings a slew of requested features, including the ability to start a hangout while on the move, as well as the option to edit posts. In addition, the applic... |
24 May 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Oracle has taken another blow in its lawsuit against Google over Android, an even bigger one than before. The jury found that Google did not infringe on Oracle's patents with Android.
This, combined with the fact that the jury only found that Google infringed on Oracle's copyright in a very small way, mak... |
24 May 2012
08:20 GMT |
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After making available new releases for the Dev and Beta builds of Chrome, Google rolled out a new revision for the Stable channel, incrementing the version number to 19.0.1084.52. It is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame) and the highlights are security-related fixes.
As suc... |
24 May 2012
07:14 GMT |
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People using the official Google Search app on their iPhone will see a completely redesigned interface starting with version 2.0, Google has announced. The software serves up faster results and offers full-screen image search, as well as a simple way to access all your Google apps. “When you’re on the go... |
24 May 2012
03:03 GMT |
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Google has been recently rumored to plan making some changes to its approach to the release of new Nexus handsets, through having more such phones launched at once from multiple vendors. Nothing has been officially confirmed on the matter for the time being, but additional details on this have emerged. Apparently... |
24 May 2012
02:13 GMT |
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Google+ has always had a couple of things for it, Hangouts and photos. They're not big, but they're something. Google+ debuted with a much better photo section than Facebook's and the giant social network has rolled out several updates since Google+ came out to catch up. Even so, plenty of professional... |
23 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Google is leading a campaign to inform those with computers or routers infected with the DNSChanger malware, which tampers with the DNS settings to direct users malicious servers which redirect them to sites they never intended to see.
An estimate puts the number of those infected to some 500,000. While the fake DNS... |
23 May 2012
11:20 GMT |
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US companies are banned from "exporting" anything to several countries. This ban applies to software as well, so a lot of people from places like Cuba or Iran are unable to download popular software such as IM clients, email clients or even browsers from US companies, even if they are free.
But Google has been worki... |
23 May 2012
10:40 GMT |
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Google had to "bribe" security researchers to break Chrome, but two were finally able to do it a couple of months ago during the Pwnium competition. Google offered rewards for any exploit that successfully managed to escape the Chrome sandbox and run code unrestricted on the system.
No one had been able to do it unt... |
23 May 2012
10:20 GMT |
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The latest Google Doodle is on its way to becoming one of the most popular to date, equal to the Les Paul guitar one. But, just like the guitar doodle, the Moog synth doodle is more complex than it looks. The multitude of unlabeled knobs will put off most people and just randomly playing with the buttons is not goi... |
23 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Google is introducing a new way of getting to know its Webmaster Tools by providing them with lessons and practical examples rather than stacks of documentation. Inspired by the recent surge in educational sites, Google introduced the Webmaster Academy. "Looking through all of the information in Webmaster Central ca... |
23 May 2012
09:14 GMT |
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Google Chrome Beta incremented the build number to version 20.0.1132.11, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame). Although the official announcement informs only of stability and bug fixes, there are some notable changes available.
In the current release, the development team gr... |
23 May 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Google has once again outdone itself with a fully working replica of the famed Moog synthesizer built right into the homepage. Celebrating the birthday of Robert Moog, the inventor of the instrument of the same name, Google set out to highlight his creation in the best way possible, by building one online.
What you ... |
23 May 2012
05:17 GMT |
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The Motorola acquisition is officially done. It's been many months in the making, but as one of the largest such deals and certainly Google's biggest acquisition, it underwent quite a lot of scrutiny. China was the last to give the go-ahead, but once it got that approval, Google was quick to make the offici... |
22 May 2012
10:30 GMT |
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The outcome of the Google / Motorola Mobility merger has been put on hold for quite a while pending approval from various regulators. The last to give its approval was China who has recently given the green light and approved the transaction.
However, it’s been said that this has been achieved at some cost, a... |
22 May 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Google has been very bullish over its "social layer" Google+. It's constantly promoting it, building it into its other products and generally making sure that anyone who uses any Google product stumbles upon, if is not outright forced to use, it.
Blogger has been no stranger to this, the site has gotten quite a... |
22 May 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Machinima, the company behind the very popular YouTube channel, has confirmed that it's raised some $35 million in a funding round led by Google. Existing investors also pitched in, but Google was the main investor, confirming previous rumors.
The move signals a very big, albeit predictable and long time coming... |
22 May 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome 21 has made its debut in the dev channel. That alone is a minor event, mostly it's just a version number change, though it does mean that dev channel users get to catch up to the changes in Chromium that have been implemented since Chrome 20 started down the path to the beta channel.
With Chrome 1... |
22 May 2012
07:11 GMT |
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As you may have heard, there was an interesting "ring of fire" eclipse yesterday but, unfortunately, it was only visible in some parts of the world, eastern Asia and North America.
Of course, even if you haven't been able to see it in person, the web is filled with photos or videos of the event, some quite spe... |
22 May 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Google's core aptitude is search and, even as it tries to reinvent itself as a polyvalent company, search still is what it does best. And from time to time it remembers that. It has now improved the autocomplete system in Gmail search with customized data.
The autocomplete feature, same as the Google Search one... |
22 May 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Chrome finally made the move to version 21, with the release of the latest dev build. The new revision, 21.0.1145.0, is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
First on the list of changes is the updated JavaScript engine to version 3.11.3.0, which disables optimization for functions that have scopes that ca... |
22 May 2012
04:21 GMT |
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After years of speculation, Google Drive has arrived. It's here, it's working and it's not that original. But now that it is here, something else has to go. Drive has evolved out of Docs, in fact, it's just Docs with a new logo and a desktop client.Precisely because Drive is just Docs with a new l... |
21 May 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Google is finally free to acquire Motorola and will probably do it this week after China has given its go-ahead on the deal. Both the EU and the US had agreed to the deal. China was the last hurdle. Google announced that it would be acquiring Motorola in August last year, but the huge deal had to go through regulato... |
21 May 2012
09:31 GMT |
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YouTube is celebrating its seventh birthday, more specifically, the date the site first went live to the public. It's been a tremendous seven years, but YouTube still has a lot of growing to do. YouTube is celebrating the occasion with some stats, impressive ones at that.
But those stats are becoming less and l... |
21 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Google Chrome is now officially the top browser in the world, at least judging by StatCounter data. Last week Chrome overtook Internet Explorer for the entire period for the first time in history. Google Chrome has been more popular than IE in the weekends and saw its market share constantly grow larger, week after w... |
21 May 2012
05:20 GMT |
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There's a new dev channel update for Chromebook owners and Cr-48 owners in particular should be pleased with the latest release. Chrome 20.0.1131.11, part of Chrome OS 2268.16.0, has arrived and is being distributed to Chromebooks that subscribe to the dev channel.
Since Chrome 20 is on its way to the beta chan... |
19 May 2012
08:21 GMT |
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Google's Summer of Code 2012 is a done deal, well in the sense that the students have all been picked, all that's left to do now is the actual coding. But Google's been keeping things interesting with some stats about the entire selection process.1212 students were admitted this year, more than in any ... |
18 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Google has announced that it will start using its pre-rendering technology in Chrome more often, as it's now more confident in its efficacy. It announced this on its webmasters blog since these are the people that are going to be the most affected by the move. Pre-rendering, like the name suggests, starts loadi... |
18 May 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Facebook's much-anticipated IPO is here. The company is going public in what is one of the biggest and certainly the most talked about IPO in many years. Facebook plans to sell 421 million shares on the open market, valuing each at $38, €29.9.
Simple math will tell you that this means Facebook will raise s... |
18 May 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The 2012 Doodle 4 Google competition, the US version, has come to an end and the winner has been picked.
Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisc. won the competition this year with his doodle "Pirate Times." The creation will be showed off to the world on the US Google homepage, that's the global version of the site,... |
18 May 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Twitter, by and large, is a public place. People tweet things they want many others to see. Twitter doesn't require people to use their real name, yet a lot of people do. But Twitter's fast paced nature has people churning out tweets that may not seem such a good idea a second later.
They can delete them o... |
17 May 2012
17:31 GMT |
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It's been more than two months since Google has adopted its new unified privacy policy and, well, the sky hasn't fallen over.
That doesn't mean that Google is off the hook just yet, Europe's privacy regulators are very suspicious about the whole thing and probably more than a little bit irritate... |
17 May 2012
10:52 GMT |
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Iran is not letting go of the Persian Gulf Google "scandal" and is now threatening to sue the company over the matter. What's more, Google should be expecting serious damages over the matter. Where exactly Iran is going to sue Google and on what grounds is another matter.
Perhaps trying to take a neutral stance... |
17 May 2012
09:01 GMT |
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In a somewhat rare move, but one that should become common very soon, Google's latest big update to the search engine, the introduction of the knowledge graph, is available in the mobile version straight away, at the same time the desktop version is.
That may not seem like much, but big features are rolled out ... |
17 May 2012
08:31 GMT |
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This week, Google introduced Schemer, a new social service for iPhone and iPod touch users that connects to Google+ and allows you to post your plans for future activities, and even suggests some from the people in your circles. The Mountain View search giant developed this tool to enable users to have “s... |
17 May 2012
05:51 GMT |
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