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Google announced that Dylan Hoffman, second grader from Caledonia, Wisc. is 2012 U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. Hoffman, from the Prairie School in Racine, Wisc., came up with his Google Doodle named “Pirate Times” featuring a pirate ship on treasure hunting trip in an island. Dylan’s submission was under this year’s theme “If I [...]

Google announced that it has selected 70 young women students for Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for the year 2012. The winners mainly comprise of undergraduate and graduate students attending universities in United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East or Africa. The winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship recipients will receive $10,000 award for [...]

Google announced that it is shutting down a few products that did not impress users, as part of its on-going clean-up acts. The products that get the bump this spring are Google Flu Vaccine Finder, Google Related, One Pass, Picasa for Linux, Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac. There is no shocking product in the [...]

If you are interested in the latest on Genomics research (or any other niche topic actually) and want to use Google News, good luck. Google News can be pathetic for following news on Genomics. Google News, a automatic news aggregator that grabs headline from a number of news sources and groups them based on category [...]

Google announced that it is acquiring TxVia, a payment technology company, for boosting its Google Wallet. The highly anticipated Google Wallet- Google’s effort to replace the whole wallet with smartphone- has not taken off as expected. In addition, Google Wallet team seem to have been in the flux. Just earlier this week, Gigaom reported that [...]

On 1st April, Google took YouTube videos out of online and has made it available offline with YouTube Collection DVDs. If you subscribe to YouTube Collections, you will get a truck load of DVDs from Google offering the complete YouTube experience. The complete YouTube Collection costs just close to $2.5 million with about $60,000 for [...]

Google announced Gmail Tap, a better way to type using smartphone using just two keys slash and dot, just like Morse code. The problem is simple we are still using the old keyboard for the tiny smartphones and Google’s solution is ingenious. Use Morse code with just a slash and dot instead of the QWERTY [...]

The biggest question on every April 1st is is what will Google do this year? and Can Google come with a nice prank that will make you laugh. (Who can forget Google renaming itself as Topeka?). Just as when you think Google can not come up with something funny, this year Google announced Google Racing [...]

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 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 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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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

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 [...]

Google Logo is a Microchip today. Google is celebrating 80th birthday of Microchip inventor, Intel Co-founder Robert Noyce with a special Google Doodle on its search site. The Google Logo is a microchip with “Google” inscribed in the middle of the chip. Robert Noyce was born on December 12, 1927 and he revolutionized the computer [...]

Just a little more than a week ago ZDNet’s Tom Foremski came up with an interesting observation that suggested that Google is waging against small businesses to gain profit.  ZDNet came to this controversial conclusion, while comparing Google’s quarterly revenue growth rate of Google Sites  and Google’s partner sites (Small businesses). ZDNet noted that Google’s 2010 [...]

Google has acquired RightsFlow, a New Your based company that works on simplifying copyright licensing by working with Labels & Distributors, Artists, and Music Services. RightFlow was co-founded by Patrick Sullivan, and Ben Cockerham, on 2007. Announcing the acquisition news at a YouTube blogpost, Google said As new ways of consuming music have emerged, RightsFlow [...]

Google launched Google Currents with much fanfare, but completely failed to come up with a product that works. Yes, it does not work, just like Gmail app that GOogle released a few weeks back. Google came up with Google Currents to take on Flipboard and Pulse for reading news socially. At least that was Google’s [...]

Earlier this week, Google announced that its Android Market App downloads hit 10 billion and the Android Market is growing at the staggering rate of one billion app downloads per month. Today, Google shared more details about the growth Android Market and Apps downloaded as a infogrpahics with lots of stats on Android App downloads. [...]

Google announced that it is accepting applications for 2012 Anita Borg scholarships for US and Canada students. Google has been awarding fellowship to female students since 2004, in the memory of Dr. Anita Borg for her contributions to remove the barriers that keep women and minorities in computing and technology fields. Female students entering senior [...]

Who does not love Google Doodles, Google’s play with its logos. Google knows it very well and wants you to have your favorite Doodle. Now, all your favorite Google Doodles (actually, all the Google doodles ever published on Google site) are ready to be purchased from Google Doodle Store, Doodles On Demand. The Google Doodle [...]

Google offered a quick glance at the evolution of Google search over the years, in its blog. In the short video, Google shared the history of the evolution of search by highlighting Google’s important milestones from the past decade—and what to expect in the future. Looking at Google’s evolution of search in six minutes, Google [...]

If the thanksgiving Google Doodle in US is all about fun, Google’s UK doodle is all about geeky robots.  The UK Google Doodle is celebrating 60th anniversary of  polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem’s book Astronauts.  The Google Doodle is interactive and one of the most complex Google Doodles. In the Google Doodle, a man, [...]

Google is celebrating 2011 Thanksgiving a bit earlier with a special Turkey Doodle on it webpage. The special Turkey Doodle logo is interactive and a hand turkey with colorful feathers replace “oo” in Google that is pinned like a card. Google Lets You Share Google Thanksgiving Doodle on Google+ By clicking on the interactive Google [...]

It is holiday season and Google wants a bit of what you spent on buying electronics.  Google announced that it dropping the price of Chorombook by $50 and also updated its Chromebook portfolio with a new addition Samsung Chromebook in Black. Google launched Chromebook at 2011 Google IO and started selling it from early June [...]

Google Doodle today is celebrating French physicist’s 224 birthday with a special doodle. French physicist, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented daguerreotype, a commercial photographic process and was born on November 18, 1787. Later, French government bought his patent made it available for free to the world. In honor of Louis Daguerre, Google logo sports a family portrait, [...]

Google announced that 2011 Google Code-in contest for pre-university students of age group 13-17 begins this Monday, Novermber 21.  Google Code-in Contest offers young students a unique opportunity to participate in open source development.  The contest lasts for 57 days till January 16, 2012.  The young participants can be part of online tasks for 18 different [...]

NY Times is running a interesting report on secret Google lab, Google X, working on wildest technological problems. It reports at Google X is working on secret projects that could sound like a sci-fi movie. According the report, Google X is operating from Google’s headquarters and a robotics labs at secret location. It appears that [...]