New Google Chrome Ups the Ante on Visuals, Safety, & Privacy
With a standard six week release cycle, it’s hardly big news when Google Chrome releases a new beta version. However, this time around is different,...
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Rob has been insatiably obsessed with Google, search engine technology, and the trends of the web-based world since he began life as a webmaster in 2002. His work as an SEO consultant since 2006, and subsequently to content writing for technology and internet-focused publications, has done nothing but fuel this passion.
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Google Calendar Gets Simple Color-Coding
The Gmail team has released some news that has me a touch bitter: An organization system that I went through monumental effort to set up for myself not two...
Google’s Mother’s Day Doodle for 2011
Now, in the first few hours of Mother’s Day, I’m already thinking about my mom – wondering what the plans are for tomorrow (my family...
Moms at Google Give Mother’s Day Advice
Google has one of the more diverse employee-bases. Beyond having over 200 offices around the world, the female-malenratio on Google’s staff is more balanced than...
Bing’s Mother’s Day Guide
While flowers are the clear winner in the U.S. when it comes to Mother’s Day gifts, the exact searches vary from search engine to search...
Google News and the Death of Bin Laden
Google News has become one of the most widely used and recognized ways to search through web stories that are fresh off the presses. That...
Google’s Blogger Gets Geo-Location and More
With over 10 million users, Blogger is significantly more popular than WordPress, the second on the scale of in-demand blog-hosting services. That may be because...
Blekko Search Powers Topix
Blekko hasn’t been getting the same degree of media attention that it did in the anti-Google-spam blitz early this year. However,Blekko has continued its unique style of...
Google Earth Releases New Tablet-Centric Version
The idea of exploring the world, including the distant geographies, breathtaking vistas, and historic buildings of other nations – or even your own – is...
Google Helps to Map Sudan
The Republic of South Sudan, a nation that will be officially born in July of this year, undoubtedly has a trying road ahead of it....
Google Analytics Adds Site Speed Tool
There’s no doubt about it: Google loves its speed. Whether it’s through Google’s obsession with having an Instant search, or its Google Chrome browser (or...
Google’s Gmail Extends Contact Limit to 25k
Gmail is still just the third most popular free webmail service (the top two are Yahoo Mail, with about 70 million users, and Hotmail, with about 45 million users; Gmail has...
Bing Creates Facebook App for Travel Wish Lists
When Google tried to buy ITA for roughly $700 million, Microsoft was none too happy. Why? Because ITA, beyond being the primary flight information aggregator and provider, powers...
Google Contributes to the Bolder Boulder Race
Google has over 200 offices located around the globe, and representatives at each branch work hard to become positive members of the local community. That...
Google Voice Integrates with Sprint
When original applications for Google Voice were released, they were more than a little controversial. As with other voice services, the Google app could potentially...
Google Chromium Team Creates Modified JS Benchmarks
When IE9 hit the market, one of the more interesting controversies in web browser releases erupted: Microsoft was claiming it was faster at performance benchmarks,...
Yahoo Examines Search Trends in May 1st Aftermath
When big news is released, the world of modern information shakes – and nowhere is this more visible than with the search engine trends. After...
Google TV Falls 72% Short on First Quarter Sales
Google has launched some of its products amazingly quickly and effectively. The Android lineup of smartphones is one great example; Android currently dominates the market....
Google – Yad Vashem Online Collections Capture Community Spirit
While Google does more than plenty for capitalistic reasons, it also takes on numerous side projects with a more charitable spirit. One of those projects...
Google Earth and Maps to Receive Abbottabad Images
On May 1st of 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. troops in Abbottabad, Pakistan (although, of course, the news was...
Google Releases Mac Version of Chrome Canary
Do you consider yourself brave? Adventurous? Good at giving feedback? Then Chrome Canary was built for you. This version of the famed Google browser comes...
Gmail Highlights Top Productivity Features
I remember when I was first introduced to Gmail. It was back in 2005, and I was a dedicated Hotmail user back then. The girl I was dating...
Royal Wedding Online: 5 Ways to Watch Video of the Royal Wedding
Prince William, son of Prince Charles (heir apparent to both the throne of England and the Commonwealth) and Princess Diana (may she rest in peace),...
How to Watch the Royal Wedding Online
The world adores a royal wedding. Prince Charles and Princess Diana had a televised wedding with three quarters of a billion viewers back in 1981...
Microsoft’s Bing Maps Showcased Through Imagine Cup 2011
If you combine the total traffic of Yahoo and Bing (since Microsoft does run the search algorithm and ads for both), you would have a powerful...
Yahoo Buys IntoNow, Investing in Social
The world of search is run by monolithic companies with one fundamental power: the power to buy. With their immense resources, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo...
Google Docs Gets a File Upload Revamp
Users of Google Docs have been no strangers to positive change over the course of the last two years. Google Docs has added a number...
Google’s Wael Ghonim Is Taking Long-Term Leave
While Google has a lot of employees with names worth remembering, one of the most important in recent times was WaelGhonim. Ghonim, apart from his work as...
Google Teams with GigaPan to Show Off Chrome’s HTML 5 Features
While the official word from W3C is that HTML 5 won’t be the standard for another couple of years, we’re already seeing the implementation of...
Google Gmail Speeds Up with Background Sending
We live in an era that’s all about speed – where getting jobs done yesterday just isn’t fast enough, where our smartphones could outdo the...