Why blame Google?

I read an article on the BBC site recently about Google limiting free news access to sites where you normally have to pay for content. The idea is to limit users to a maximum of 5 free articles per site for sites that participate in the First Click Free programme. After that, users will be [...]

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Google Searchwiki

If you enable javascript on Google and you are a signed-in Google user, you may notice that next to every search term result, there are two new icons. Yes, you can now promote or remove search results! And at the end of the search results, you will see a speech bubble – yes, you can [...]

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The REAL reason behind Chrome

Been reading up a bit about Google’s Chrome and came across this blog entry over at Computerworld. The author says Google isn’t creating a web browser, they’re creating a Web application platform that can run equally well on computers and mobile devices. He also claims that Chrome and open source browsers that adopt it’s features [...]

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Insane News: Viacom, GOOGLE & YouTube battle!

Shockingly I saw in on the front page of my morning paper was “YouTube told to reveal all users”. Turns out that Viacom pursuing a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube because they claim that 160,000 unauthorized clips of television shows have been uploaded onto YouTube and veiwed more that 1.5 billion times, thus YouTubes success [...]

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Aprils fools from google

Their front page declares that you have now installed a new feature that will allow you to backdate an email to before you send it. You can backdate it all the way to “1st April” 2004 when google was brought online. Oh yes, it also mentions that they use an ‘flux capacitor’ to resolve issues [...]

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