Recent ‘google’ News Stories

Google’s New Privacy Policy – What’s Wrong With It?

Friday, 27th January 2012

Google announced this week that they will be discarding 60 of their privacy policies and replacing them with one common privacy policy, covering multiple products and features of Google. While this might seem a good move for users, it’s not quite as innocent a move as it may seem. (more…)

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Google+ Still Showing Huge Growth

Wednesday, 4th January 2012

Google’s social network, Google+, which launched publicly only last July has surprised everyone by continuing to sustain its growth spurt. (more…)

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Google Launches New Ad Formats For Tablets

Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Google recently launched new tablet-specific ad formats with a view to satisfy the expectations of this emerging group of users and to help marketers reach out to this rapidly-growing audience effectively. (more…)

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Google Hosts First Engage Event For Agencies In London

Monday, 28th November 2011

On Friday, 25th November,  Google organised the first ever Engage event for agencies in the UK. Their objective for this event was to help agencies help small businesses advertise online. This post summarises key topics covered at the event. (more…)

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Google Pushes Google+ At Expense Of Old Products

Friday, 25th November 2011

As Google’s social networking star, Google+ continues to grow and acquire interesting new features, older Google products continue to be axed, presumably to free-up resources to support their new favourite. (more…)

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Google Music‏ – Hit Or Miss?

Friday, 18th November 2011

On Wednesday, Google launched an update to a service called ‘Google Music’ that was previously in beta. The service is now available to everyone in the United States and will allow users to upload, purchase, store, share and listen to music in digital form from any device. (more…)

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Google+ Business Pages – Should You Care?

Wednesday, 9th November 2011

Google Plus, the social side of Google has recently opened up for business accounts. The new feature, known (unsurprisingly) as Google+ Pages, went live on Monday and the verdict on them is not very encouraging so far. (more…)

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Google Offers App To Combat Groupon

Tuesday, 8th November 2011

Google Offers is now available as a mobile app for Android phones. The Google Mobile Blog describes this app as an app that will “allow users to discover, buy and redeem their favourite deals on the go.” (more…)

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Google Shows Ads At The Bottom Of SERPs

Friday, 4th November 2011

Google has announced, just this week, that they will now display ads at the bottom of the search engine results page. (more…)

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Chromebook Earns Retail Space In London

Monday, 3rd October 2011

Google opened their first ever “store” this weekend. To everyone’s surprise, it is based not in New York or California, but in London, UK. (more…)

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Google Wallet Spreads Across America

Tuesday, 20th September 2011

Google Wallet, an app that allows consumers to use their mobile phone as a wallet, is now ready to roll out across a number of major payment providers and one major network in North America. (more…)

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Google Flight Search Takes Off

Wednesday, 14th September 2011

Google has just launched a flight search facility, which as the name suggests, helps users to find out more about flight times and availability and to book them. (more…)

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Google Discards Social Failures For +1

Friday, 9th September 2011

Google recently announced that they will shortly discontinue a number of projects and integrate some with other existing or newly introduced projects. This is being done with a view to “simplify matters for users and to improve the over all Google experience”. (more…)

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Google Chrome And Google+ Hot In India?

Tuesday, 6th September 2011

Recently released data shows that Google software and services are becoming very popular in one of the World’s largest consumer markets, India. Both Google Chrome and the Google Plus network are seeing rapid adoption in the sub-continent. (more…)

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Movie Searches Nearly Double

Monday, 5th September 2011

For some time now, Google has been studying the way users conduct searches for movies online. A whitepaper detailing the results of this study shows that movie search patterns have changed considerably in the past 3 years. (more…)

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Google +1 Button Turns Social

Tuesday, 30th August 2011

Users of Google Search and Google Profiles have been using the +1 Button for some time now, to help recommend content to others. Google has now announced some improvements to this button, to make this process of content recommendation more social. (more…)

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Google TV To Launch In U.K.

Friday, 26th August 2011

While Google TV was launched almost a year ago in the U.S.A. it is only later this year or early next year that they are expected to go on sale in the U.K. (more…)

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Google Related

Wednesday, 17th August 2011

Google has just announced the launch of a new feature called ‘Google related’. This feature will be a new toolbar for the Internet Explorer as well as for the Google Chrome browser. (more…)

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Google Buys Motorola Mobility

Tuesday, 16th August 2011

It has been recently announced that Google is all set to buy over Motorola Mobility. (more…)

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Apple Goes After Google Indirectly

Monday, 15th August 2011

Apple the manufacturer of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad, has launched an offensive against Samsung, Motorola and HTC. Apple has claimed that these companies are copying its patents. (more…)

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