Google is currently the world’s foremost search engine so they must be doing something right – something that people find helpful.
This, however, unquantifiable it may seem to the layman, makes people return to Google time and again if ever they need to search for something on the Internet.
But is it really unquantifiable? It probably is not to people who work inside the Internet giant that is Google.
What probably set Google apart from the rest of the pack is that early on, it strove and …

Google takes its April Fools’ Day pranks seriously.
Not only did Google pull pranks on us users of their services on April 1, its executives also pranked their chief Sergey Brin turning his Tesla Model S into a hot pink Batmobile.
Yesterday, photos of Brin’s customized car started surfacing on the Tesla Motors Club forum,  on Twitter and on Google+.
In the photo below, you can see Brin driving the “pimped out” Tesla Model S.

The car, as you can see, has been finished in hot pink with …

If you’ve ever searched for something on the internet, you’ve probably used Google. If you use Chrome, you’re using Google’s own browser to surf the internet. If you have a gmail account, again you’re using a Google product to send and receive emails. Don’t forget to watch your favorite videos online using YouTube, another Google service but if you want to comment on them, you’re going to need a gmail account. If you need to store personal documents, …

Google recently announced the imminent July 1 retirement of Google Reader, arguably the world’s most popular RSS reader, because of the decline in usage. But thousands of petitioners beg to differ, as they go online with a signature campaign to save the service.
The company has now decided to close a total of 70 features as part of its “spring cleaning” under the helm of CEO and co-founder Larry Page.
The chief executive, who took the seat from current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, …

Google has announced its second spring of cleaning under CEO and co-founder Larry Page. And it sadly includes RSS feed organizer Google Reader.
The rapid change rate in Google products and services is unprecedented for the company, wrote Google Fellow and SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle as he unveiled the bad news in a post on the company’s official blog.
He said changes in the computing environment, with almost everyone owning at least one device, triggered the company to …

In what a Canadian judge calls a change that should be taken to reflect our current society, arrested suspects should be allowed to look for a lawyer on Google.
Judge H.A. Lamoureux of the Provincial Court of Alberta said in a ruling that internet access should be provided by the police to accused persons in order for them to exercise their right to access a lawyer.
In a ruling for the case of a certain Christopher McKay, the judge said that the world is “at an unprecedented time in human …

You can now export and download your Blogger data and Google+ pages through Google Takeout.
The move was announced by Google’s Kári Ragnarsson, a member of the company’s Data Liberation Front, in a post on the group’s blog.
Google Takeout is a Google-built tool that lets users download their data from Google products and services.
Accordig to Ragnarsson, this latest development caters to users of Blogger or Google+ account owners who want to control their data more.
By visiting …

Google is having to undergo the stringent examination of competition regulators in both Europe and the US, with Reuters reporting this month that the EU competition commission is still undecided as to whether the search giant is compromising consumer search experiences, due to its near monopoly.
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), across the pond is still awaiting a final decision in its own antitrust examination of Google.
Even Google’s Eric Schmidt did not seem certain about …

Between company websites and network members, Google had a revenue of nearly $40 billion in 2011. Approximately 96 percent of this was earned through advertising. The company has really been successful at making the most of products that are offered free of charge to its patrons. You probably use the Google search engine extensively for a wide range of research needs. You may publish a free blog with the company’s Blogger platform. By joining advertising with its free resources, the …

Google plans to revolutionize its search engine services, adding to the results returned in searches also useful information, which we had not thought to look on the internet.
In preparation for implementation of the new search system, Google is waging an experiment in which about 150 participants are asked to respond in eight random times of the day to a simple question: What else do you want to know lately? Responses of participants are recorded and used to better understand what information …