Meet the First New Google Favicon in 8.5 Years
	In case you’ve accessed the Google website in the last few days, you have surely noticed that there’s a new favicon displayed in your browser once the website is fully loaded. Moreover, in case you have bookmarked the Google Search page, there’s a new "g" appearing next to the page title. Well, Google rolled out their first new favicon in the last 8.5 years and according to the company’s officials, creating such an icon ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Rolls Out 13 New Features
	Gmail rocks and all of you knew it already, but even so, users always want to see more features from Google’s mail service. Regardless if we’re talking about folders or a different UI, people have always requested new functions. Because of that, Google has recently rolled out Gmail Labs, a special testing platform which incorporates test versions of the upcoming Gmail features which could be used by all users of the mail service. ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google, Yahoo and Live Search Robots Exclusion Protocol
	Out of all the aspects of the word wide web equation, search engines are without a doubt the items offering the least amount of control to either end users or content developers and designers. Sure, given sufficient white or black SEO techniques, search engines can be manipulated, but actual control is out of the reach of mere webmasters. There are exceptions, of course, in which not search engines, but the indexing process and t ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Euro 2008 Brought to You by Google
	Football fans around the world, get ready for what is the most expected football tournament of the year: Euro 2008, the competition that gathers the most important countries when it comes to this sport. Although it is based in Mountain View, California, and they simply call it "soccer" there, Google is trying to make the most of this event and has consequently prepared several goodies for all Euro 2008 fans out there. ... [read more >>]
	02 June 2008, 15:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Brings You Fresh News
	Following the recent integration of the New York Times layer into Google Earth, an addition which allows users to read news straight from the mapping application, the Mountain View-based company has made another move to bring even more news to Google Earth fans: a brand new layer providing content powered by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, also known as ABC. The new layer, codenamed ... [read more >>]
	02 June 2008, 14:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google to Provide Search Technology to MySpace
	Google and News Corp's popular social network site MySpace have signed an agreement that will enable MySpace users to benefit from Google search software technology. According to the Mountain View company, MySpace users will be able to search their e-mails faster than ever before, thanks to Google's technology. Apparently Google's actions are part of the company's plan to turn the Web browser into a full-sc ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HTC Dream and Android's Powers Unveiled
	Google unveiled yesterday the true face of its upcoming Android platform, plus several details regarding what seems to be HTC Dream. The unveiling took place in San Francisco, during Google I/O, said to be the company's "largest developer event". Thanks to Android Com ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth for Browsers
	Since its release in 2005, Google Maps has become something that Internet users can really benefit from – an online mapping solution that allows them to get more information than just the usual directions to the nearest Mall. Prior to the Google Maps release, online maps only offered basic information. Google thought to go a step further and created its Google Maps and Google Maps API, which allow users to fully benefit from all the applic ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Driving the Monster Milktruck in Google Earth
	Today is the last day of Google I/O developer meeting, which is held at Moscone West Center in San Francisco. The conference was meant to offer developers using Google products a better perspective on Google's current and future applications. Unlike the previous years, this year's meeting was entitled I/O and participants had to pay an attendance fee of $400, except for students and teachers who only had to pay $50. ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Access Google Docs without an Internet Connection
	For those who do not know yet, Google Docs is a free web-based application provided by Google that allows you to create and manage documents, spreadsheets and presentations online or offline (without an Internet connection). For Google Docs users, the offline access is possible due to the implementation of a new powerful feature: Google Docs offline. G ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 11:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Asked to Pay $77 Million for Publishing News without Permission
	The Mountain View-based company Google is, once again, sent to court for copyright infringement, being accused by the copyright organization CopiePresse that it has published news belonging to Belgian newspapers without authorization. The copyright group demanded damages of $77 million due to the fact that Google posted on Google News stories written by Le Soir and La Libre Belgique, eFluxMedia reported. Google didn't commen ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Opens Berlin Office
	According to the German Welt Online, Google has opened a new branch office in Germany. The search engine company, which went to Hamburg in 2001, now has 5 offices in Germany totaling no less than 300 employees. Berlin is the latest to go on the list of Google's locations in Germany, right next to Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main and Munich. The more recently acquired office space is said to be of only 150 square meters, which liter ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gmail Better with IMAP
	Because technology has come a long way over the past decade, people are now able to do lots of things that weren't previously possible. One of those things is to access their email accounts directly from their handheld portable device, namely mobile phones. And, if you are Gmail user and have tried to connect to your Gmail account via your mobile phone, you know how frustrating this is, mainly because any action you take doe ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Even More Google AdWords Phishing Scams
	A long time ago, when we first detected a Google AdWords phishing scam, it all looked like a shy attack because nobody could ever think that it would last several months. Even if phishing websites have been shut down, attackers are continuously creating new ones ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

YouTube Suit - Threat to Online Communication
	Google's subsidiary YouTube and Viacom are currently involved in a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit, which was initiated by Viacom in February 2007. According to Viacom, YouTube is to be held responsible for the high number of video materials that don't respect copyright rules. 160,000 of these videos are said to be unauthorized Viacom clips, which total more than 1.5 billion views. According to a recent update on the ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 09:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3D Dallas in Google Earth
	Since Google rolled out the 4.3 version of Google Earth, users have been discovering new imagery updates which simply allow them to enjoy different corners of the world straight from the desktop. Although I'm not sure whether this is something new or it has also been integrated into the 4.3 release, a 3D version of Dallas is now available in Google Earth, the folks at The Dallas Morning News wrote. As usual, the 3D imagery a ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google “Pays” Microsoft Researcher $20,000 to Do What It Can't
	Google and Microsoft are unlikely partners, as the two companies have conflicting interests especially in terms of the search engine and online advertising markets. Still, the Mountain View search giant and the Redmond software company do manage to find common ground. In this regard, user privacy is one area where the duo share portions of a pseudo-common vision. Pseudo-common, because although Microsoft has set in place very str ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Search Results With No Google Video Player
	Most of the Internet users are probably using YouTube for watching videos featured on the Web. But this doesn't stop Google from offering users their own video product, simply dubbed Google Video. The product is actually the Mountain View's free Video sharing website and video search engine, and it has recently received a new update. On 13th of June 2007, Google announced that its Google Video search engine was going ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Web Hosting Provider: Please Use Gmail!
	Dreamhost, a large web hosting provider based in Los Angeles, said in a blog post that users should really give Gmail a try because Google simply "does do a great job at email." Moreover, "in a way we are taking some steps to stop providing email," Dreamhost explained in the blog entry. T ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Experiments with Showing Additional Information for Forums
	Google plans to improve the quality of its search results and is currently experimenting with showing more information on forum threads. News about the search results feature comes approximately one month after the Mountain View company announced that its search engine would display the publishing date on a Web Page. Users can't really enjoy the new feature just yet, as it is still in its experimental stage. But when the ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google I/O Is Just around the Corner
	If you are a developer and you find yourself in San Francisco between 28-29 this month, you might want to add a very important event to your agenda. Google is going to hold its annual developers’ meeting, where developers using Google's products are expected to arrive in large numbers. This year, the meeting will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This upcoming edition is entitled I/O and, unlike in previous ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Admits It Hosted Malware
	As you've probably heard, Google has recently launched a new utility which lets you check the malware status of a certain domain and find out if the website hosts or hosted malware in the past. However, the diagnosis service provides at least surpr ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Google Feature Makes Users Feel Safer when Browsing
	Google has recently introduced a new feature that will make users feel safer when browsing the web. The new feature will provide users with answers to four essential questions, namely: "What is the current listing status for [the site in question]?," "What happened when Google visited this site?," "Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?," and "Has th ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Leeds "Criminal" Finally Banned by YouTube
	Andre Kellett, a 23-year-old from Swarcliffe, was banned by Google's video sharing service YouTube after having posted numerous clips, most of them reportedly illegal. According to Web User News, the YouTube user uploaded no less than 80 videos on the website, one of them showing "Kellett being driven in a car ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Map Showing Santa Cruz Mountains Wildfire
	Google Earth provides support, yet again, for victims of another disaster that struck in the United States this time, in Santa Cruz Mountains. This time around, the disaster came in the form of a large fire, the likes of which Santa Cruz Mountains has never seen before. It appears that the area was full of flammable items such as downed trees and leaf litter, which accumulated over the years and provided the fire with enough fuel ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 10:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Microsoft Yahoo Marriage Too Little and Too Late to Impact Google
	While a complete takeover of Yahoo is no longer in Microsoft's plans, any sort of pseudo-marriage between the two companies might just prove a case of too little and too late. This because both Microsoft and Yahoo continue to see their shares of the search engine market eroding constantly, in the context in which they have so far failed to form a common front against Google. According to the latest statistics made available ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Docs Has View
	One of Google's many products is Google Docs, which is basically a web version support to users wanting to edit and create office documents. The product, which was released in September 2007, provides basic functions for a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation. Since its release, it has received a number of important upgrades, designed to enhance users' experience. Recently, Google Docs has also received a couple ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Earth Gets Scientific
	The Google Earth application has had some impressive success over the last period. The Mountain View company has brought its product a number of important upgrades, which made feature more options for its users. We have also seen Google Earth being used as a rescue tool providing satellite imagery of the recently affected areas in Myanmar and Sichuan. As you probably known, Google tries to improve the quality of its products and ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 10:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bill Gates Unveils the Search Revolution to Bring Google Down
	With or without Yahoo or even critical pieces of the Sunnyvale-based Internet giant, Microsoft is determined to go after Google with all it’s got. And excluding an evolution through acquisitions or mergers, the Redmond company can only generate growth on the search engine and online advertising markets organically. In this context, Microsoft has been unwrapping the spring 2008 update to Live Search, a release which culminated at the advanc ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Englishman Incriminates Himself on YouTube
	If you know you’re doing something that is generally considered illegal by others, don't record it and then post it on the YouTube. This is the basic rule for all who enjoy doing things cross legal boundaries, but it appears that one man hasn't heard of it yet. Andrew Kellett, a 23-year old Englishman, runs for the "Leeds’s dumbest criminal" award after he has been cited for uploading incriminating videos of h ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google 4 Doodle Announces Winner
	These past few weeks, we have seen the Mountain View company getting involved in a number of charity actions, trying to bring its support to victims all over world. The disasters in Myanmar and in China's Sichuan have reached a death toll of approximately 150,000, with almost the same number of surviving victims, to whom Google has tried to bring its full support. Besides its implication in these disasters, Google also found ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reader Keeps Growing and Growing...
	Google Reader, Google's web-based aggregator, becomes more and more popular but it's still not able to compete with Bloglines, another RSS feed reader which is said to be the leader of the category. According to statistics provided by Hitwise, Google Reader grew up a lot but Bloglines managed to keep up the good work and kept the leader position. Google Reader accounted no less than 0.27 percent of the total share o US ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 03:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Still the King of Search
	Nobody has ever doubted that Google is the most popular search engine on the Internet and the statistics released every month simply confirm this statement. Nielsen Online released the Top US Search Providers ranking for April 2008 revealing, once again, that Google is the king of the web when it comes to search engines. According to information provided by Nielsen, Google Search recorded more than 5.1 billion searches in April 2 ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Health API Is Available to Developers
	In the past, we have seen Google open its resources to developers for a number of its products. It appears that another, recently released, product has been given the green light in offering API support to developers. Google Health, which was officially released during a press event held at the company's Mountain View ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Senator Joe Lieberman Calls on Google to Take Down YouTube Videos
	YouTube, Google's subsidiary, has been publicly asked to remove from its website content allegedly sponsored by terrorists. In an open letter released this Monday, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman called on the Mountain View company to take action against Internet video content produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda. The senator called on Google to implement its own po ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Looks to Buy Google's Users with Hard Cash
	After withdrawing its unsolicited acquisition proposal for Yahoo, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer indicated that the Redmond company's online search and advertising strategy was not based exclusively on the integration of the Sunnyvale Internet giant. Chairman Bill Gates confirmed that Microsoft would increase its search share organically, since the failed takeover of Yahoo could no longer haul it as the no. 2 of the ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reader Is Down
	Google Reader, the web-based aggregator powered by the Mountain View-based company Google, is currently unusable due to what seems to be an unexpected error in the way the service handles feeds. Starting this morning, Google Reader is not able to open some feeds, while others work just like anytime before. "Sorry, an unexpected condition has occurred which is preventing Google Reader from fulfilling the request," the er ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More User-Generated Content on Google Earth
	Google Earth, Google's mapping solution, is turning into a database of user generated content. At the Where 2.0 conference that took place last week, Google held a tutorial entitled "Searching the Geoweb: Exposing Your Geo Data to Search Engines". The tutorial was presided by Lior Ron, Google Maps Product Manager and Mano Marks, Google Developer Programs Engineer. It appears that Google has been working on comi ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Looking to Buy Yahoo Search
	The Microsoft and Yahoo acquisition saga continues after the Redmond company revealed that it was exploring alternatives designed to help it solidify and increase its shares of the online search and advertising markets. On May 18, Microsoft made public its intentions to acqui ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 11:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Facebook CEO Wants to Talk to Google
	Last week, Google released their Google Friend Connect product, which has been said to make non-social websites offer social networking capabilities. The new product has also been advertised to increase the traffic level of a particular website, thus enabling it to generate a higher revenue. It appears that new product made Facebook, the social networking site, block Google access, citing privacy concerns as the main reason in do ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google News - Now on Google Earth
	Google takes no shortcuts when it comes to offering its users the stamp of high quality for its products. Over the past few weeks, we've seen a number of updates released for the Google Earth application. Google's mapping solution can provide users with satellite imagery of various locations and landmarks found on Earth. All of the recent updates are meant to increase the quality of Google's products and even provi ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Launches Google Health
	Yesterday, during a press event held at the Mountain View headquarters, Google has announced the release of Google Health. The first official mention of the service was made at the Google Factory Tour, but Google Health was accessible even earlier on. The new service plans to offer search support to a considerable number of users who are already using the Google search engine, in order to recover information about healthcare. ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 05:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Extends Its Support for the Chinese
	Google is extending its support for the Chinese people, using its products to help those who have fallen victims to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan. Until now, the death toll of the earthquake disaster has been reported to be 34,073, with another 245,108 injured. News about the disaster has spread all over the world and a number of organizations have made considerable efforts in trying to help the Chinese people. ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Discloses Private Details, Police Arrests Orkut User
	Similar discussions surfaced in the past so it shouldn't be too surprising that Google disclosed private details concerning a user as part of a police investigation. According to Network World, the Pune police arrested Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid a few days ago under ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Opens Its Content Network to Third Parties
	All web masters know that the best way of making a website return initial investments is through online advertising. This actually translates into webmasters letting their website feature advertisements for various products. One of the highest used advertising services is Google's AdWords, which uses a site's content to advertise products through content relevant web links. The service, which has been introduced by G ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Climate Changes in Google Earth
	The seriousness of global warming has also reached Google's Google Earth application. The downloadable mapping application, which has been designed to offer satellite imagery of Earth, has just received two KLM layers, which can help users better understand how climate change will affect our planet and its people. The two layers, which are dubbed Climate Change in Our World and Climate Change in Our World, Antarctica are av ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 08:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Most Visited US Website. Obviously
	Google is once again the most visited US website with no less than 141,000,000 unique visitors, according to a research conducted by comScore. The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo came the second with approximately 140,610,000 visitors while the Microsoft sites accounted the third position with 121,213,000 visitors. It's interesting to see that other popular services were placed on lower positions and some of them were not even ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Whole Web Mourns Earthquake Victims
	Following the destructive earthquake which hit China on May 12, the entire web is today commemorating the victims of the tragedy in its very own methods. According to China Daily, China announced three days of national mourning and suspended all entertainment websites from displaying their content on the ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft and Yahoo, Love Is in the Air, Still
	A Microsoft takeover of Yahoo is dead from the perspective of both companies, but the same is not valid for the negotiations between the two giants. The Redmond and Sunnyvale based companies have re-entered talks at the end of the past week, announcing that they have discovered a common ground that would permit the creation of an anti-Google alliance on the same front. "In light of developments since the withdrawal of th ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia