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If anyone’s been looking at the tech headlines today, particularly the really big sites with very political writers, you may have read something about the FTC having Google in chains over outrageous privacy violations. Some of that info is based on fact but most of what I’ve read is personal takes on the news with […]
I know that as a stubborn old nerd I can be pretty hard to win over, and as much as this Google Engineer claims to have accidentally leaked his rant, I read this as intentionally made public from the get-go just by the way it was written to ‘everyone’ in a few spots. I could […]
I *was* working on another story when I saw this on the Google search page: We had talked about sneaky ways to get into Google+ in previous posts like this one: Google+ Free For All However this time Google actually wants users to flood on in without any invites, they are ready for it now, […]
I will admit it, I have a very ‘frugal’ attitude towards information and the internet. So when Google bought Zagat it was the first I’d heard of the long running rating service. For those who are web-frugal like me, it may come as a surprise that this paid food review service has managed to go […]
Yesterday on the Official Google Blog, Matt Braithwaite posted an article about transparency reports, including some very frank details about Google’s dealings with removal requests and user data requests. Google, in their typical style of blowing us away with information, has given users multiple ways to view the information, broken down by country, date range, […]
Earlier in the month I wrote this post on self-driving cars from Google: Google goes Jetsons … in that post I was discussing how difficult it is to test the cars properly as state laws forbid the practice in it’s current format. Yesterday, June 22nd, the ruling was passed as state law and Google has […]
Barry Schwartz from SEO Roundtable conducted a poll a couple of weeks ago in which he asked of those who have been hit hard by the Panda update, how many have recovered? His results are in and I would like to share them here with you. From a sample of 500 users, his breakdown of […]
Locals commuting in San Francisco and Los Angeles have probably already seen Google testing autonomous cars. The highly modified Toyota Prius that Google has been using wouldn’t go un-noticed and there are several in testing. In 2010 Google logged over 140,000 miles of autonomous driving with passengers in the car to assist as little as […]
Google continues to be dismissive over the public’s concerns regarding the ability of its mobile devices to send precise user locations back to its servers. Google has been collecting the location information from millions of mobile phone and devices stating that the information was "extremely important" to the direction of the company’s future. Andy Rubin, […]
