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Google Is Live Search's Top Query

When the top query on your search engine is a competitor, it's definitely time for a re-think. Microsoft has said that it’s revamping its Live Search, and new data from Hitwise shows that it’s possibly not before time. According [...]

Posted On : May, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Google privacy fight may loom

A Winnipeg lawyer is watching closely as online search engine Google prepares to launch its Canadian version of Google Street View. Brian Bowman, who specializes in privacy matters, said how the online photo mapping system deals with privac [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Pulls Music Videos from Germany as Streaming Royalty ...

Legend has it, the great blues musician Robert Johnson went down to a crossroads and made a deal with the devil. In exchange for unfounded musical talent, the story says, he traded his soul. It was a yes or no choice; be a guitar hero, or n [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Voice Simplifies Phone Needs

Google finally launched its long-awaited voice service, aptly named Google Voice. It's an outgrowth of a service it acquired last year, Grand Central, which gives you one number for all your telephone needs. When people call this number, al [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Privacy group asks FTC to probe the sufficiency of Google se...

Google's accidental release of private information of users this month has led to an online privacy group's calling upon the federal regulators to probe into the sufficiency of the security safeguards by Google. Noting faults in Google's pr [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Google to launch targeted ads based on your web browsing

GOOGLE plans to use your web browsing history to target online ads, joining an industry trend that has raised privacy concerns. The new program is dubbed "interest based" advertising, and it's being tested across Google's par [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Docs Bug Raises Security Concerns

It seems Google is still finding it difficult to stay away from controversy. If it was the Gmail outage and the Search results bug last month, it is the turn of Google Docs in March. Apparently, the company's famous online word [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users

IDG News Service — People who bought an unlocked version of the Android G1 phone are no longer allowed to download new paid applications from the Market, after a change Google made late last week. Google is prohibiting use [...]

Posted On : Feb, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Google joins the EU's Internet Explorer smackdown

Google likes to tout the advantages of self-regulation and the free market when its dominance in search and advertising is called into question, but the Web giant doesn't seem to mind letting the government intervene in the browser market. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Exploring a Deep Web That Google Cant Grasp

One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Demos Offline Gmail on Mobile Devices

Google has demonstrated a an offline version of Gmail for the iPhone -- for now. With offline Gmail for mobile devices users can browse download e-mails even when the phone has no network connection. Previewed at 2009 GSMA Mobile World Con [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Google wins Street View privacy case

claimed was its 'privacy invading' Street View technology have lost their case in a Pennsylvania court.Aaron and Christine Boring brought their case against the online search giant in April, accusing it of privacy violation, negligence, unj [...]

Posted On : Feb, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Google is the new anti-trust pariah

Despite the fact that Google helped President Barack Obama to get the job, it is starting to look like there will be a falling out between the administration and the search outfit.Christine Varney, nominated to be the US’ next a [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Buys ? A Paper Mill?

Consider it a sign of the times when internet company Google acquires the buildings and premises of a mill site from a paper, packaging and forest products company that caters to the print industry. Today, Finland-based paper group Stora E [...]