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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 [...]
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. [...]