In a recent purchase of Metaweb, Inc. for around $57 million, Google has plans to make its search engine that much smarter. Search terms like celebrities, companies, books, movies and more will become more specific and easier to identify with the five year-old technology called Freeweb. Danny Hillis is the brains behind the keyword service. [...]
Shouts of joy and elation are ringing from a list of hand picked communities around the United States as Google opens up its first test run of a brand new ultra high speed fiber optic Internet connection, Google Fiber. This could be the future of Internet connection, which would catapult speeds faster than Captain Kirk [...]
YouTube, which is a part of the Google Empire, has just released an exciting new service called Leanback. Viewers will be able to live stream programs on YouTube right to their television sets and connect and share watch they are watching with their Facebook friends. Leanback is still in its infancy as a beta version [...]
The rumors could be true. Google Me is supposedly the latest project being hammered out by a large staff of tech elves soon to be in direct competition with Facebook, the largest and most popular social media website today. Lately Google has been pumping up Google Buzz, adding new apps and allowing users to be [...]
In 2007 Google snatched up the company GrandCentral, and turned it into what is now Google Voice, a free service to all Google users in the United States. The company hopes to make telephone calling and messaging easy and free with the service. Google Voice offers free features that can be used with any cell [...]
Google maps is famous for its map images and reliable directions on the web, but how they have been gathering information may just surprise you and has spurred some civil legal action and debate in the United States and abroad recently. The issue has to do with Google’s interception of unsecured wireless networks. If you [...]
If you are a fan of Google Maps then you are going to love this. Google just announced on Monday, June 7, that it has added the maps feature to its popular Google Buzz service, which gives users instant access and easy sharing capabilities. The new addition is a feature that is optional and needs [...]
This is an exciting time for Google as it expands its horizons and reaches out into more and more technical arenas. Now the company has yet another new and exciting app that has just launched into Beta release called Google Wave. The idea behind Wave is to create a real-time experience with platforms such as [...]
Google Buzz is growing up and maturing into a more compatible, multi-platform tool like Facebook and Twitter with the addition the Google Buzz API. Now Buzz users can go outside of Gmail and tap into applications like Tweetdeck, Seesmic and Boxee. The announcement came today and is refreshing for current Gmail account holders who have [...]
The recent release of Apple iPad will soon receive competition from Verizon and Google in their own version, which could be released sometime in early 2011. The tablet computer will be similar to iPad, and will operate from possibly the Android operating system or Chrome. The tablet will most likely run on Verizon’s LTE 4G [...]
