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Evade trolls and explore Middle-earth with Google’s new Chrome experiment

The darkness clears, and you realise you’re surrounded. The hulking shapes of the trolls are clearly visible by the moonlight, towering high above you….

Meet Google Tour Builder, a new way to tell travel stories using Google Earth

Have you ever come back from traveling somewhere and thought that telling stories and posting a few pictures on social media just wouldn’t cut…

Google kills child sex abuse search results, will go global within six months

Google is getting serious about child pornography. Very serious. In an op-ed in the UK’s Daily Mail, Google chairman Eric Schmidt reveals some of…

Jump in a gondola and explore Venice with Google’s new Street View update

Ah, the life of a Googler. First the Street View team was hiking the Grand Canyon, then climbing to the top of the world’s…

The five stages of Google grief: how secure search has the online marketing space in mourning

Approximately two years after Google first clamped down on user privacy and secure search, the change has begun to have severe effects on how…

10 reasons YouTube’s new Google+ comments really are a good thing

If any of you netizens have not heard of this apparently catastrophic news, YouTube comments are now handled by Google+. Yes I know, the…

Google lends disaster relief tools to typhoon stricken Philippines

The massive typhoon that crashed into the Philipines late last week has left untold devastation in its wake. Estimated to be the largest in…

Do no evil? The Google & JC Penney controversy

We usually associate black hat Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tactics with spammy sites selling get rich quick guides, or porn, or any other slightly…

Google launches paywall offering for publishers

Google has unveiled its much-awaited paid content offering for online publishers. Google will take a 10% share of revenue from subscriptions managed through “Google…

All you need is love… and Google

Cupid’s arrows are shooting through the air finding their mark – or missing it completely – depending upon which side of the fence you…

Google Translate for iPhone ready for download

Google has launched the official Google Translate for iPhone app. The new application is available for download from the Apple App Store globally. Google’s…

Instead of smallpox Google is colonising Africa with ‘cool stuff’

Sitting at the southern tip of Africa you get used to giving a resigned shrug and half-smile when the entire continent gets lumped into…

Is SEO really killing Google?

A Memeburn article on SEO and Google search results a few months back got a lot of heat going in the comments section. Most…

Google vs Bing: The great search scandal

Amit Singhal, a Google fellow and engineer, has written an extraordinary blog post on the company’s official blog spelling out how it caught out…

Google Streetview presents art like you’ve never seen it before

Google unveiled the Art Project on Tuesday, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums which enables people to discover…

Google, Twitter set up voice-to-tweet service for Egypt

As the Egyptian government feverishly tries to cut off all contact with the outside world, Google, working in collaboration with Twitter, has set up…

Real change at Google, or just shuffling the cards?

The departure of Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google has led to speculation about changes at the company as Larry Page moves back into…

Google in search of its mojo

Google, the internet darling of what could be termed the “web 2.0” era is searching for its mojo in the era of the social…

Major shake-up as Google sees Larry Page elevated to CEO

In an effort to shake up its internal culture and processes, Google announced that one of its co-founders, Larry Page, would replace industry veteran…

Google appoints 33-year-old Kenyan to head Africa policy

Google’s new appointment of a 33-year-old Kenyan to manage its Africa policy has been described as a “coup” by authoritative US technology magazine FastCompany….

How well are hotels using Google Adwords?

The effective use of Google is critical for all businesses in the 21st century. But nowhere is it more relevant than in the hotel…

Google wants you to move from ‘OS and hard-drive’ to ‘browser and cloud”

At the same time that Google released the Chrome 8 browser, it also released its much-anticipated Chrome Web Store. The simultaneous release signals Google’s…

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