Google is essentially an advertising company. Advertising revenue drives most of the company’s activities, but its policies around advertisers has led to them getting into “hot water” in the past. Why? Because “bad actors” try to abuse Google Adwords to promote counterfeit goods, scams and a range of other illegal or misleading activities. As part […]
So Google+ may not be the most popular social network. How can Google fix this? This hilarious spoof video from the guys at CollegeHumor explains Google’s new strategy – exposing all the data you’ve given them over the last few years. Enjoy!
Google have announced that they’re dropping support for IE8 (Internet Explorer 8) at the end of the year. We decided to do this to both accelerate the pace at which we can innovate new product features, and to facilitate adoption of newer web technologies in the design of the Google Analytics product. Our ultimate goal […]
Google’s “doodle” for today celebrates French composer Claude Debussy and his work “Claire de lune”: Apparently today is the 151st anniversary of the composer’s birth. The animation and music lasts for over 2 minutes and is quite captivating. Did you stop to watch it on the Google home page? Related articles Google Doodle […]
Google is well known for its “Easter Eggs”. This one might have been around for some time, but it only came to my attention today: Just search for the term “gay” and you get it
Google will have to pay a $7 million fine in the US. The fine stems from Google’s “Street View” vehicles sucking up too much data. While photographing streets and buildings the “street view” vehicles also collected a LOT of other data, including accessing unsecured wireless networks and collecting hundreds of gigabytes of personal data. Full […]
Websites get hacked all the time. No matter what kind of website compromise is involved it’s still an annoying and traumatic issue for website owners. Google have released a number of videos and guides to help website owners deal with the issues if they arise. The videos and tips don’t assume any technical knowledge – […]
Google’s doodle today is interactive again and this time the theme is canoeing. As usual you can control the avatar using your keyboard, though this time round you can also control the canoe’s position using the “up” and “down” arrows, though that’s not indicated in the instructions [youtube]http://youtu.be/e3StGKCGc_Q[/youtube] Yet again when doing the screengrab I […]
