It seems to be getting increasingly clear that Google is no longer content in dealing with online viruses. So much so that Google will now start predicting the spread of Flu in the non-virtual world. The website will utilise its massive data collecting power to assemble information on the disease. The search engine giant has […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had said creating a mobile operating system was financially unsound for Google and that the company was definitely far behind the competition. He added they could hire smart guys and could also hire a lot of people yet, they have in specific sense remained far behind.
He has now also raised some […]

Many users on the Internet use YouTube for sharing media other than videos. Quite often it’s music, and that is the reason why there are a number of videos which just have some pictures with music playing in the background just so that they can be posted as videos. Now when there are a number […]

Users have already done it a lot of times in the past as there was no alternative available; we are talking about video sharing. While surfing through videos if a user finds a particular part or piece of the video interesting he/she cannot edit it. They end up sending the entire video.
Well good-old YouTube has […]

Google recently released the updated version of its browser, Chrome. The search engine giant’s browser has not been able to live up to the expectations that many had. The official Google Blog said that the company has been able to fix some persistent bugs; it also moved some features around and tried to solve the […]

Google Knol has recently been launched in three global languages. It is now available for users in French, German and Italian. The creation of these international versions will allow people proficient in these languages to use Google Knol.
Google Knol has been described as a monetised and credible Wikipedia. In Knol, the writers of the published […]

Google Maps and Google Earth users would now be able to benefit from the Street View Imagery of four major cities of Spain. Google recently added Street View Coverage for Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville. The move came just two weeks after the Search Engine Giant had a similar launch covering six major cities in […]

Google has just launched Android Market. It has around 50 applications for mobiles that can be purchased and downloaded by the users of the Google G1 handset. Also the market has been opened to developers by Google who can submit applications developed by them to be included in the list.
For this Google requires developers to […]

Google recently announced the launch of its Google Earth application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The application was released through an official Google blog and is regarded as an achievement of the dream of carrying the earth around in one’s pocket. The application offers users easy access to Google Earth wherever they may be.
By incorporating […]

The recent release of the sequel to Peter Molyneux’s original Fable video game, Fable 2, has led to a flurry of uncommon searches on Google. Fable 2allows players to create their own characters. Using this, players can decide whether they want their character to be cruel or kind, a hero or a villain, rich or […]

A call worth several million pounds by Google for beneficial, world changing ideas has generated well over 150,000 online submissions. Google will start going through the ideas carefully. These have been given in 25 languages.
Bethany Poole, Google’s product marketing manager said:
“We are very impressed by the variety as well as ingenuity of the submissions

Millions of pounds from the internet giant Google will be used to research into new diseases and also understand the conditions which help them spread, saving millions of lives.
In a clear indication of their social commitment, the executive director of Google.org, Dr Larry Brilliant, said:

The top online search engine, Google, defied current economic worries with almost a 26% increase in profits. Google earned £778m ($1.35bn) this quarter (third quarter of 2008), beating analysts’ expectations. The firm stated its earnings had grown thanks to its online search and advertising businesses.
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When the Queen launched her website more than a decade ago, she mentioned how many people found the worldwide web to be ‘a bit of a mystery.’ A few years ago, she reportedly confessed to Bill Gates, Microsoft’s founder, that she had not yet used a computer. But things have changed since then. Her guides […]

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt stated that YouTube has just reached a deal with Lions Gate Entertainment to feature various film clips from the renowned studio on the video-sharing website.
Schmidt added the deal would allow YouTube viewers to upload select clips of their favourite Lions Gate films that would be accompanied with ads. He revealed […]

A ruling has been passed by a German court in Michael Berhard’s case, according to a Bloomberg report. Berhard is a German photographer who had made a complaint saying that the thumbnail preview that is provided on Google search, of his artwork, violates his work’s property rights. In a similar case, cartoonist Thomas Horn had […]

Google and Microsoft are the biggest names in their respective domains- search and software. While Microsoft also has a share of the search pie with its Live Search, Google has its Google Apps suite that is a web-based competitor to some of the major Microsoft software applications. Google Apps has been trying to get ahead […]

YouTube has come out with another way to try and earn more revenue from the huge audience it boasts. They have started to stream full-length Television shows, complete with advertisements. The deal has been struck with CBS and the list of the content includes Beverley Hills 90210, The Young & The Restless, Star Trek

If you are a Gmail user, what you will most likely want to do after a few unsuccessful and increasingly frantic efforts after you Gmail fails to respond is to talk to a customer support representative of the firm. But that is not an option. Google does not offer any toll-free number and any live […]

The Google-Yahoo ad deal has been recently put on hold by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). This deal was finalised in June and was to be executed from October. However, the same has been put on the backburner temporarily by the Association. They are of the opinion that the deal does not take into […]