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Google+ Launch Business Pages

8, Nov 2011

After months of waiting, Google have finally rolled out business pages for their Google+ social network. The world’s fastest-growing social network had received criticism from a variety of sources for rolling out their services piecemeal, with the lack of dedicated pages for businesses chief among the concerns voiced. The new pages allow businesses to start [...]

Google Aims For “Tighter Focus” – Drops Labs, Streamlines Places

22, Jul 2011

Google is expanding rapidly, making inroads into social networking, online libraries and instant communications. But it looks like some products won’t be coming along for the ride. It’s emerged today that Google Labs is being dropped entirely, while changes are in store for Google Places. Changes were predicted following Larry Page’s announcement that Google needed [...]

Facebook and Google – Are the Toys Out of the Pram?

18, Jul 2011

There’s been a war of words in the press. There have been malicious press releases. But now Facebook’s war with Google has heated up even further. Because it looks like Google+ has rattled more than a few pages down at Facebook HQ. This time it’s over advertising. Specifically, a fun little advert from an application [...]

Introducing Google’s + Project

29, Jun 2011

A hand-picked number of people have recieved their invites from Google. Media outlets around the world are running press releases, stories and speculation. All because Google have finally thrown their hat into the social ring with a full blown social network. And it’s called the Google + Project. No, we don’t know why it’s got [...]

Google Fails to Learn From Buzz

2, Jun 2011

Remember Google Buzz? No? Well, neither does anyone else. Especailly not Google, who seem determined to try and out-Facebook Facebook. This time, it’s with social sharing. Forgetting that the main reason we all use Google is the clean, simple, uncluttered interface and generally trustworthy results, Google have decided to let people mix up the results [...]

Google: “We Like Privacy Now”

19, May 2011

In a move that’s probably in no way linked to questions in the US senate and external privacy audits, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has announced that Google will be introducing a simplified set of privacy controls for users of Android phones. Concerns over mobile phones storing information have risen, following the news that Apple’s iPhone [...]

Microsoft Starting Streetview Programme

14, Apr 2011

As we’ve noted before, anything Google can do, Microsoft can do to a slightly lesser standard a few years later. Not content with accusations that Bing is stealing from the Google algorithm, Microsoft have decided to unveil a brand new, never-before-seen addition to their maps functionality. Only joking – they’re launching their own version of [...]

Search Engines Celebrate Space Pioneer

12, Apr 2011

It is fifty years since Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was strapped into the cockpit of Vostok I and launched into space. On his return, the cosmonaut was made a Hero of the Soviet Union and gained worldwide fame and adoration. To mark Gagarin’s pioneering flight, the major search engines have commissioned logos and backdrops to help [...]

Google’s Library Closed

23, Mar 2011

Ahead of today’s budget, people across the UK are expecting a fair few libraries to close – but over in the USA, judge Denny Chin has dealt a blow to what could have been the largest library in existence. Google has scanned millions of books from some of the world’s greatest libraries, including Oxford’s Bodleian [...]

Google Remove Malware From Android Phones

7, Mar 2011

Poor Google. When they’re not being accused of spying on customers, they’re having to stop third parties from spying on their customers. Over 50 applications infected with phone monitoring tools were added to Google’s Android Marketplace (their equivalent of Apple’s iPhone App Store). The infected programmes carried a virus called DroidDream that allows unscrupulous developers [...]


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