One of the earliest specialist services provided by Google was reverse phone number lookup. If you used the "phonebook:" or "rphonebook:" operators together with a 10-digit US phone number, Google would show you the owner of that phone number, unless ... (more...)
Google's newest Question and Answer service is Google baraza beta, launched on 25 October 2010. Baraza is offered in English and French, although Google's links to the French questions aren't working for me. Baraza operates on a Points basis. ... (more...)
Google has revamped its image search. Instead of showing image information right below individual images in the results overview, you'll now get just the image thumbnail. Hover over it, and the thumbnail will grow a bit in size and show its infor ... (more...)
When you now go to the google.cn homepage, you'll see a static image of a Google homepage instead of the real thing* (a Chinese explanation on the page translates to something along the lines of "We have moved to google.com.hk... Please add our s ... (more...)
The special Google homepage doodle for today is both logo and game... namely, the classic Pac-Man with a level that contains the Google letters. The game is JavaScript, not Flash-based, by the way. Clicking on the logo didn't take me to a search ... (more...)
Google plans to introduce a box accompanying the TV which tries to make the TV "smarter" by letting you search for content... and browse the web, and view photo albums and more, as Google's video introduction shows. It's called Google TV, and as ... (more...)
Google is starting to do a very good job at making their government involvements, like legal requests to have information removed, more transparent. A new site titled "Government requests" shows a world map along with information for many countri ... (more...)
Google announced that a website's speed is now one of the many signal's used to determine that site's ranking in Google results. Google in their blog post suggests a couple of tools with which you can test your site speed -- which they define as "how ... (more...)
In a radio interview on 29 March, Australia's communications minister Stephen Conroy had some strong things to say about Google: "Notwithstanding their alleged 'do no evil' policy, they recently created something called Buzz and there was a re ... (more...)
In a dramatic move, Google today started redirecting traffic from google.com.cn to google.com.hk, from which it serves uncensored search results in simplified Chinese for users in mainland China. This leaves Google's services vulnerable to being b ... (more...)
Hitwise, a web analysis business, said on its Analyst Weblog that Facebook was the most visited site last week, overtaking Google Search for the first time. Hitwise suggests that Google Search accounted for 7.03% of US Internet visits last week, c ... (more...)
If you've opted in to YouTube's HTML5 experiment, the videos will play in your own browser's player, instead of in an Adobe Flash player. This was discussed in the Forum a few weeks ago. YouTube can serve HTML5 videos if you have an HTML5-capable ... (more...)
Knol is a Google service that allows anyone to publish an article about almost anything. When Google's VP of Engineering, Udi Manber, announced Knol in December 2007 it was widely regarded as a "Wikipedia killer". If Knol's users could replica ... (more...)
When Google wants to test new features, they call them Lab experiments, and make them opt-in. Now, following many other services, Google Maps received a Lab icon. Click the green flask at the top of Google Maps and you get a chance to enable feat ... (more...)
Recently we mentioned here how the word "buzz" turns out to be a reserved label in Gmail. Now, Gmail is rolling out a service by that name -- Buzz -- announced by Google some hours ago via video, blog post and help page. Buzz is meant to let you ... (more...)
German Spiegel ("mirror") has a relatively good cover story about Google out for tomorrow's issue, perhaps more balanced than some of the magazine's online articles. There's a broad overview of Google's recent and older products and what privacy ... (more...)
Google with partnering organizations has set up an award called Breaking Borders to recognize "outstanding webprojects by individuals or groups who have shown courage, energy and resourcefulness in using the internet to promote freedom of express ... (more...)
Chris writes in to say he's spotted a new service on his Google account services page: "Google Guru", which points towards guru.google.com/guru/ ... which is non-existent at the moment. The account page reads, "Guru ... Ask questions and get answ ... (more...)
According to several sources, Google has given a new Google phone to its employees. It's apparently called Nexus One, Android 2.1-based, looks like this and this, has a touch screen, and is built by Taiwan's HTC but with no HTC branding and full ... (more...)
Google has partnered with the New York Times and the Washington Post news organizations to create an experimental type of news page they call "living story". In a blog post announcing this move, Google says that Living Stories try a non-tradition ... (more...)
Chrome for Linux and Mac The Google Chrome browser is now also available for Mac (see screenshot above) and Linux. Google in an email some of you received said that there were "73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written". If you run Mac or Linu ... (more...)
Google launched Goggles, an Android phones application which lets you snap a photo somewhere, to then get more information about the contents of the photo. ("Reverse image search" engines like TinEye.com turn out to be very useful at certain time ... (more...)
Google has released real-time results integrated into their main web search results. Now, when you enter a query like obama, google and many others, somewhere in the page you might be seeing a dynamically self-updating, scrollable section of bits ... (more...)
Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane to the left hand side. Within that pane, as the screenshot by Search Engine Land (with more coverage) shows, there will be sections such as "Everything", ... (more...)
Google has released a new programming language called Go. Google wants to offer a couple of benefits from their language: fast compilation, easy analyzing of dependencies, static types that nevertheless feel more lightweight compared to some othe ... (more...)
Dan Siroker is the founder of kid's learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign transition as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome. This email inte ... (more...)
Google now lets you opt in to the Social Search feature they recently announced. Google explains, "If there's relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a ... (more...)
Google Sidewiki is an app you can install for Firefox and Internet Explorer as part of the Google Toolbar. It lets you discuss any webpage out there with others -- by adding messages in a side bar displayed on a given page. If you're not a toolbar fa ... (more...)
Oh sweet: Google released a plug-in for Internet Explorer which brings Canvas and a couple of other things (like Chrome's fast JavaScript engine) to Internet Explorer. It's named Google Chrome Frame, and the "couple of other things" could act lik ... (more...)
Here in China I'm amazed by the Google Music site... I can search for all kinds of bands and musicians and get their albums, with songs fully playable in an easy interface (songs playable in China only, that is!). The scope of featured artists doesn' ... (more...)
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