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Google Homepage Now Links to Privacy Policy
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Fri, 04 Jul. 2008
The Google homepage saw a little change: instead of “©2008 Google” the footer now reads “©2008 - Privacy”, with the word “privacy” being linked to Google’s readmore
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Google Employee Data Stolen
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
ZDNet today writes: <<Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company used by Google and other companies to handle human-resources functions, were stolen in a readmore
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Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Google is closing its office in Denver and Dallas, as someone at Friendfeed posted today. “Employees have to choose relocation or severance,” a former Google employee (according to her blog’s about page) wrote, adding that the reason was consolidation; “Someone decided the ROI wasn’t there.” I asked Google for a statement and they say: <<Following an operational rev readmore
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Google Talk for iPhone
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Google Talk, Google’s chat program, is now available for the iPhone, Google announced in one of their blogs. Google says it’s enough to just point your iPhone browser to readmore
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Google Ordered to Hand Over YouTube User Data
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
The Wired blog writes that a judge ruled that Google will have to “turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos t readmore
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Google Street View Live in France
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Google Street View – those panorama photos part of Google Maps – has now been released for France, as second country in the world after the US. However, the pics taken are just from the readmore
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Traces of Google China's Music Service
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
In February this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google wants to “crack” the Chinese market with a music-related offering. “The U.S. search giant is in the late planning stages of a joint vent readmore
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Strange Gmail Square
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 03 Jul. 2008
Many of us are noticing an odd black-to-gray ink spot at the top left of Gmail, like in Firefox. Does anyone know what this is? (Tony Ruscoe suspects it’s a zero-width inline frame...) [Thanks Mrrix32 and Jarred!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: readmore
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Cross-domain Google Sitelinks
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
Google’s sitelinks are the navigational links displayed below a main result; they’re automatically picked by Google, and just show for some sites/ queries. Now it seems Google also shows other sub-domains among these link readmore
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Sex Sells (or How to Get Someone to Subscribe to Your YouTube Channel)
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
This particular YouTube video has a couple of things going for it which might make more people subscribe to the creator’s video channel or view more of their videos: The readmore
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Better Flash Indexing for Google?
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
Google announced they improved their handing of Flash files in search results; they say they now have a better ability “to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds,” including buttons, gadgets and so on. Google were already ab readmore
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Bullitt Chase Scene Google-Mapped
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Tue, 01 Jul. 2008
Seero.com allows users to mash and sync videos with a Google map. One user mapped a car chase scene from the movie Bullitt with Steve McQueen: to the left you’ll see the video, and to the right the related San Francisco locations. (If you’re wondering why there’s no readmore
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Fred, YouTube Sensation
(author unknown) via Google Blogoscoped on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Now THIS is the kind of video I'm NOT trying to do. Sure is funny for the family, though. Sigh, I think I just killed a brain cell. Or 50. This video has over readmore
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More on Google and "Family Guy" Creator Teaming Up For Cartoon Ads
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
The New York Times reports Google will be teaming up with the creator of the US cartoon series “Family Guy” to distribute short original episodes of a show called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy."* The readmore
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Google China's Universities Overview Tool
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Mon, 30 Jun. 2008
The Chinese Google Rebang site – a listing of hot searches as well as a general info directory – provides a new research tool for prospective university students in China. The tool is called readmore
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Pomoc Google: Google Answers for Poland
Tony Ruscoe via Google Blogoscoped on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
In much the same way that Google launched the Russian-only Knowledge Search almost exactly a year ago, a new Google Help site has now been launched by Google Poland. readmore
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Plenty New Features for Google's Blogger
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Fri, 27 Jun. 2008
Embedded comments, and star ratings Google’s Blogger has a couple of new features available at the special Blogger Draft site. Among these changes are: readmore
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Google Calendar Phishing
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
A couple of minutes ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my inbox. It had me blink my eyes because while I suspected phishing there were some things with this one that had me check twice to see how it’s done, as things looked quite official on the surface. As you may know, readmore
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Google Advertising in China
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Thu, 26 Jun. 2008
Google used to pride themselves about how word-of-mouth spread popularity of their search engine, and to this day they’re doing remarkably little traditional advertising. However, after their ad campaign in Russia now another ad campaign in China readmore
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Making Google More Open
Philipp Lenssen via Google Blogoscoped on Wed, 25 Jun. 2008
Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe has a long article about how Google managed to remain “fundamentall readmore
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