Not everyone is seeing the new Google header bar yet that is being rolled out currently. The new header area moves the menu items that were previously linked directly on the top of the page to a new menu that is attached to the Google logo. When you load the Google homepage you will see [...]

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Google Health was a centralized health information service that allowed users to manually or automatically upload health records to the service. It acted as a management central for those records. The service provided users with a health record summary, background and related information, as well as interactions between drugs, allergies and conditions. Google Health became [...]

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The Stop Online Piracy Act in the US is getting ever more publicity with GoDaddy one of the high profile companies to suffer from supporting it as we wrote a couple of days ago.  In our previous article Martin summed up SOPA very effectively. If you are living in the United States, you should have [...]

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Google, through its web properties and services, can track a large number of Internet users. This happens on Google websites such as Google Search, Google Plus or Maps, but also on third party websites that embed Google Adsense, Analytics or other widgets and scripts that the company offers. Internet users who feel that the tracking [...]

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Google is putting lots of effort into their social networking service Google+. Changes happen on a weekly basis and it is often hard to keep track of everything that gets added, modified or removed from the service. The company yesterday announced new features that improve Google+ significantly. Users who maintain Google+ pages can now add [...]

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The majority of users visiting the Google homepage or another one of Google’s properties will have noticed that Google made another change to the header area. The company did away with the black bar and replaced it with a menu that is activated with a click on the Google logo. This new menu displays a [...]

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There is an intriguing infographic that has been released showing how much revenue Google had in 2010.  In typical infographic style, and you can view the whole thing below, there’s all manner of comparisons including saying that the company makes more money than the combined gross domestic product of the world’s 28 poorest countries.  These [...]

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Google’s Android store has had it’s 10 billionth download this week, and the news was announced on the Google blog.  To mark the milestone the company has also announced that for the next 10 days it would cut the price of some of the top apps to just 10 cents each. The growth in apps, [...]

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Google about six months ago started to roll out the black bar on top of most of their properties. This bar displayed the logged in Google user’s username, linked to popular Google destinations such as Google Search, Maps or Mail, and displayed options to modify user account related preferences, privacy settings or settings that affected [...]

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