Google’s 2012 April Fool Prank: 8 Bit Google Maps

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Google Maps has started its April fool prank little early with a new version of Google Maps, 8 bit Google Maps for the neglected devices like  Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Google says that the 8-bit Google Maps is a product of  the engineering team in Japan, which understood the importance of maps on retro game systems. [...]

Google Doodle Sports Love for Valentines Day

Google Doodle Sports Love for Valentine's Day

Google is celebrating Valentine’s day with a special Google Doodle for Valentine’s day that spreads love in the air.  In the special Google Doodle, the second “o” is a clickable animated YouTube video that plays the song “Cold, Cold Heart” by Tony Bennett (Courtesy of Columbia Records and Sony/ATV). In the funny video, a skipping [...]

Google Celebrates 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens With a Special Doodle

Google Doodle For Charles Dickens

Google is celebrating the famous writer Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday with a special Google Doodle. Charles Dickens was born on Feb. 7 1812 in England. His notable writings include Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, and Our Mutual Friend. Learn more [...]

Google To Unite Privacy Policies and Treat You As a Single Person Across Google Products

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Google announced that in an effort to make Google privacy policies simpler and easier to read and understand, Google is uniting more than 60 privacy policies from its products. The biggest upshot is that by combining privacy policies, Google can treat you as a single individual across multiple Google products, when signed in to your [...]

Google Buys More Patents From IBM

The big brother IBM has once again lent its hands to help Google by selling more patents on mobile and java. The patent transfer detective SEO by Sea has found the IBM to Google patent transfer once again. SEO By Sea reports that Google ended the year 2011 by acquiring 188 granted patents and 29 [...]

Google Dumps Its Own SEO Rules to Promote Chrome. Caught Red Handed Google Demotes Chrome’s Pagerank

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Just as everyone recovering from the New Year party, SEO Boook and SearchEngineLand uncovered a not so proud beginning for Google this year. Google has found to be either directly or indirectly paid to get the link juice violating its own SEO policy for Google Chrome.  To keep the Google search results clean, Google does [...]

Google Wishes Happy New Year With a Special Google Doodle

Google Doodle New Year Day 2012

Google is wishing all of us with a special 2012 New Year Google Doodle. The special New Year Google Doodle looks a lot like yesterday New Year Eve’s doodle, but today’s Doodle more aout getting things done and resolutions instead of all the partying.

Special Google Doodle for 2011 New Year’s Eve

Google Doodle for New Year's Eve 2011

Google is celebrating the 2011 New year’s eve with a special Google Doodle. The New Year’s Eve doodle has each letter in Google as a person happily partying. By Google’s standard the doodle is a simple, but colorful one. A click on the spcial Google Doodle takes you search query “Happy New Year”.

Muppets Hang Out on Gooogle+: Ad for Google+

Google went on offensive to promote Google+, its social network with new ads, one on muppets and the other with the basketball player Bill Watson. The common theme of the ads promote Google+ Hang Out feature that enables multi person video chat. Google+ Muppets Bill Watson Hangs Out

Top 10 Most Watched YouTube Videos in 2011: YouTube Rewind 2011

YouTube announced the list of top 10 most watched videos of this year 2011. Google compiled this list by looking at the global view counts of videos uploaded this year. Rebecca Black’s Friday video came on top of the top 10 most watched videos in 2011. And it is probably not that surprising as Rebecca [...]