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Although Google’s “don’t be evil” saying doesn’t always ring true to its actions, some of the search giant’s work is pretty miraculous. From taking us to the South Pole, to documenting life on earth for future generations, there’s magic built into those goofy Street View cars. With this in mind, Google has updated its Street Continue Reading →

A few weeks ago, the Google+ team punked The Oatmeal by redirecting its Google+ profile URL to a slightly more interesting (and profanity-laden) URL. That, it turns out, was just a test for Monday’s wider rollout of vanity URLs for a subset of verified business pages and profiles on Google+. Google has already enabled this Continue Reading →

Google announced plans on Monday morning to acquire the travel publishing brand Frommer’s from John Wiley and Sons for an undisclosed sum. The deal is not yet final, but expected to close soon. The acquisition is the latest in a string of deals that appears to bolster Google’s position in the travel information sector. In Continue Reading →

A playable Les Paul guitar, a Pac-Man game and a keyboard in celebration of Robert Moog. These are just some of the many doodles that Google has displayed on its home page. What started in 1998 as a stick figure drawing behind the letter “o” to show the team were out of the office, has Continue Reading →

Microsoft says it’s working to offer better security for users of its Outlook.com web-mail service, but don’t expect two-factor authentication, like on Gmail. Instead, Microsoft wants to offer a “strong solution” that won’t be as inconvenient for users. Outlook.com is currently in preview and doesn’t offer Google’s optional two-factor authentication, which requires both the account Continue Reading →

Motorola Mobility, which was bought by Google Inc for $12.5 billion, will cut 20 percent of its workforce and shut nearly a third of its offices worldwide, Google said on Monday. “These changes are designed to return Motorola’s mobile devices unit to profitability, after it lost money in fourteen of the last sixteen quarters,” Google Continue Reading →

While most Google Earth hobbyists are satisfied with a bit of snapping and geotagging, some have far loftier ambitions. Satellite archaeologist Angela Micol thinks she’s discovered the locations of some of Egypt’s lost pyramids, buried for centuries under the earth, including a three-in-a-line arrangement similar to those on the Giza Plateau. Egyptologists have already confirmed Continue Reading →

Google is opening up more channels for fielding copyright complaints about YouTube videos, thanks to a change in how the company monitors Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests via web search. Friday, Google announced it is tweaking its web search to take into account the number of DMCA takedown notices a website has received. Continue Reading →

Managing multiple accounts is becoming more important on the Web every day and Google has decided to make it easier for its Gmail users. TNW staffers saw this page flash up, which lets you log in with one of your accounts, or add others. I think I just said “YAY!” really loudly and woke up Continue Reading →

In June, Google engineers took to the stage in front of thousands of cheering software developers to introduce the Nexus Q, a black ball meant to stream video and music. It was Google’s first try at building its own hardware — in the United States, no less — and Google called it “a third wave Continue Reading →