Google Tops US Online Video Rankings, Again. (Image: Warren Noronha, via Flickr / CC)

comScore has recently released data that showed 181 million (about 84.5 percent of all) Internet users in the United States viewed almost 37 billion video content in the Internet for the month of April alone. Moreover, around 20 percent of the videos viewed online were video advertisements that amount to about 9.5 billion videos.
Google has yet again topped the ranking for the most viewed U.S. online video …

Eric Schmidt told Boston University graduates to shut down their devices once in a while (Image: aspeninstitute-internal (CC) via Flickr)

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc, addressed Boston University college graduates last Sunday, telling them that they need to take radical steps and set an example to their generation by limiting their use of computer screens and smartphones.
This year’s set of graduates grew up with Google and its products and services that have made communication and …

Google's Knowledge Graph is the next big step of search evolution. (Image: via lifehacker.com)

Google will introduce “Knowledge Graph” in a few days, a tool that allows users to learn more about a particular subject without having to sift through various websites from search engine results pages. The Knowledge Graph will appear to the right of the results page.
According to Google’s official blog, “Knowledge Graph” allows you to find the right thing, get the best …

Google Plus' Hangouts On Air is now available publicly (Image: via blog.hubze.com)

Google Plus opens Hangouts On Air to the public. Now anyone that owns a webcam can stream live video broadcasts to the Internet.
Hangouts On Air was already out as early as September of last year, but that time only a few Google Plus users were allowed to use it, most of them celebrities. Now available to the public, Hangouts On Air may be the most innovative and unique feature in Google Plus.
On your …

Google docs introduces 450 new fonts (Image: tothepc (CC) via Flickr)

Google announced that it is adding 450 new fonts to Google Docs. New fonts include such bizarre names as Cherry Cream Soda, Luckiest Guy, Lovers Quarrel, Bree Serif, Slackey, Lobster Two, and Unkempt; fonts that will greatly expand users choices.
According to a Google blog post written by Isabella Ip: “Often the best way to get your point across is to present your idea in a creative, captivating way.. Today, we added …

Google Drive will help Google Plus gain more users, particularly those running businesses (Image: Tilak Bisht (CC) via Flickr)

The new Google Drive, a cloud storage service similar to Dropbox, is poised to get more businesses into the social networking site Google Plus.
One feature in Google Drive is Google Plus integration, which invites collaboration among groups and members, sharing data and information through Drive, and essentially tapping into Google’s massive …

Google Translate now translates one million books worth of text daily. (Image: Geek Grunge, via Flickr / CC)

Google has announced that its six-year-old Translate service is now chomping foreign languages at a superb rate of one million books worth per day.
According to reputable Google Translate research scientist Franz Och in a blog post, the service was not so smooth back in 2003, and that it would take “40 hours and 1,000 machines to translate 1,000 sentences”.
Things have …

Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. (Image: dkpto, via Flickr / CC)

Google now has the upper hand in its ongoing legal battle with Oracle after Jonathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, took to the witness stand that Java programming language and its application programmable interfaces (APIs) are free and available for everyone to use.
The testimony from Schwartz is the most striking statement so far in the trial involving the search giant and the business software …

US Federal Trade Commission Ramps Up Probe Into Google’s Business Practices

Signaling a heightened new level of investigation, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this morning said it has hired a prominent trial lawyer to head its broad investigation into the business practices of search giant Google Inc.
In an official announcement picked up by the Associated Press in San Francisco, the FTC said former Department of Justice prosecutor Beth Wilkinson will head the commission’s deeper …

Disturbing Questions on Content Rights Pop Up With Release of Google Drive (Image: Tilak Bisht (CC) via Flickr)

The ever-critical issue of intellectual property rights boiled to the surface midweek this week with the release of Google Drive, the search giant’s new offering of unlimited storage space for users.
Reporting from San Francisco, the Associated Press this morning said bloggers and social media users are swamping the press with questions regarding a clause on Google Drive’s terms …