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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Google announced Samsung Galaxy Nexus Challenge from its Google Nexus twitter accountand winners get to take home the yet to be released Galaxy Nexus running on the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich.  Google Nexus challenge is a series of 10 challenges involving puzzles, photo/video challenges, and essay questions that users have to solve using Twitter. [...]

Google is celebrating Veteran’s Day with a special Google Doodle on its search page in US. Google Logo sports a tree as Google’s “l” with a yellow ribbon to salute the veterans. America celebrates Veteran Day on 11th November every year to honor “America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve [...]

Google made its second acquisition today. The second startup that fell into Google’s circles is a year old Katango. Katango was founded a year ago by a Stanford University CS Professor Yoav Shoham and his graduate student Michael Munie. Katango is mission is to “tame this social tsunami and restore simplicity to our social life” [...]

Google has acquired Apture, a San Francisco based startup company that offers in page search solution using browser extensions. Apture was founded in 2007 by two Stanford computer science graduate students,Tristan Harris and Can Sar. Apture is currently funded by Clearstone Venture Partners and angel investors including Paul Maritz of VMWare. Apture solves a common [...]

Google is celebrating the birthday of the famous Polish scientist Marie Curie on its search page with a special Google Doodle. Marie Curie was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw Poland. In the Google Doodle, Marie Curie is the second “g” in Google and doing an experiment. Marie Curie is well known for her [...]

Google announced that it has made the biggest changes ever to its search algorithm so that the search results are fresh, most recent and relevant. The latest changes/improvements to Google’s search algorithms will impact about a whopping 35% of searches. Google’s latest algorithmic changes can determine better the level of freshness needed in the search [...]

Google is celebrating Halloween today with a special video doodle on its search homepage. Unlike other special Google doodle, there is no animation for Halloween. Instead, the Google Doodle sports a time-lapsed video of huge pumpkin carvings. The Time-lapsed video starts as six huge whole pumpkins and shows Googlers carving them over time. By the [...]

The Google Doodle today at Google’s search page honors 100th birthday of American artist Mary Blair, who created animation of Walt Disney. Mary Blair was born in Oct 21 2011 in Oklahoma. In her decade long career at Disney, she brought life to a number of films like Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Cinderella, [...]

Google unveiled the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Google’s next version of Android 4.0 dubbed as Ice Cream Sandwich. The major highlight of Android 4.0 is that it is designed to run on smartphones and tablets. Galaxy Nexus the first smartphone to have the new Android 4.0 is super slim, has the 4.65” Contour Display [...]

Google is at it again. It is cleaning up the house by killing a few of its products again. In the last few months, Google has shut down Google Labs, Google Health, Google Powermeter, Aardvark, Desktop, and Fast Flip, as they did not make a huge impact. And this time the biggest product that is [...]

Google made yet another acquisition on the social network space. This time, Google acquired SocialGrapple, a social graph analytics startup that started out analyzing twitter social graphs and extended to other social graphs as well. SocialGrapple was founded by Andre Petrov in 2010.  Announcing the acquisition of SocialGrapple by Google, Andrey the founder of SocialGrapple said [...]

Apple co-founder and the revolutionary tech leader who inspired the whole generation of tech enthusiasts Steve Jobs passed away earlier today. Steve Jobs was suffering from pancreatic cancer for years and earlier in August he stepped down from the role of Apple CEO. Honoring Steve Jobs, Google on its main page has a link to [...]