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Google is removing the video chat function from Gmail that has been available since 2008 and replacing it with a Hangouts style feature as seen in Google+. Google promises Gmail users this will mean higher reliability and enhanced quality.
Bing has launched a new social search feature that lets you tag your Facebook friends. Bing’s goal is to make it easier for users to share search results with their friends and ask for suggestions on the best locations or items.
"The Internship", a new R-rated comedy about life as a Google intern, is currently filming at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Parts of the campus have been transformed to accommodate the movie, written by Vince Vaughn and starring himself and Owen Wilson.
Google's new feature lets mobile and tablet users scrawl handwritten search queries on their screen. Google converts the handwritten letters to typing in the search bar and offers autocomplete results for users to tap. Here are some tips and tricks.
Google’s updated calculator allows users to type in mathematical problems and see a full 34-button scientific version. Chrome and mobile users can also simply speak the problem aloud, rather than typing it in the search bar.
A new Google Knowledge Graph test has been spotted – one that gives users the option to “Explore More” on the topic, displaying additional options around the query just below the search bar, in addition to the info box in the right sidebar.
Sparrow works on iPhone and iPad devices and Mac computers, using simplified interfaces of Twitter clients such as Tweetie or IOS apps as opposed to more traditional email style applications such as Apple Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird.
With all the demands on a marketer's time, there’s a real need to streamline all the busywork so we can do our jobs more effectively. We’ve compiled some of our favorite browser extensions for SEO, site reviews, social, productivity, email and more.
New York, Seattle, and Silicon Valley may be synonymous with technology and start-ups, but it's time to add one more to this list: Las Vegas. What began at the grassroots level a year ago has now blossomed into an amazing Vegas tech scene.
A new Easter egg has been discovered on Google. Users who search for “Conway’s Game of Life” (minus the quotes) will see a cellular automata “game” invented by mathematician John Conway. But you’re limited to being a spectator on this one.
Google is being sued by California-based EMG, which alleges that Google's Chrome web browser infringes its patents relating to zooming and scrolling functions. EMG seeks financial damages and to prevent Chrome mobile web browser distribution.
Yahoo has confirmed reports that some 400,000 of its user passwords were stolen in security breach. An attacker breached company systems July 11 and lifted the data from archived account information related to the Yahoo Contributor Network.
What does breast cancer screening have to do with fashion? More than rubber bracelets or ribbon broaches. Adrian Rosebrock has put into action insights from his day job at the National Cancer Institute unit to make a visual search engine for fashion.
With the explosion of visual content orientated social networks such as Pinterest, visual search seems to be back on the agenda. Visual search company, Superfish, have announced an update that could improve search on image heavy content sites.
One in five Google Knowledge Graph entries are outdated for high activity queries, when compared to their most recent corresponding Wikipedia entry. Further, half of those results lag behind by two days or more, according to a new Conductor study.
Since the black Google+ bar debuted in June 2011, there have been plenty of complaints about it and many people still hate it. How do you remove the black bar? A new trick to eliminate the bar from Google's home page has been discovered.
Google has announced Brick, a collaborative 3D building experience with LEGO bricks that turns Australia into "the largest LEGO set you're ever seen". Google is working together with LEGO Australia to bring 8 trillion bricks to the Chrome browser.
It takes 16,000 computers working as a brain to tell if a cat is a cat. We know this thanks to an experiment to create a computer brain carried out in Google's X laboratory, where the machine capable of of recognizing felines was created.
Google Offers is teaming up with Boingo Wireless to offer free WiFi in more than 200 locations in New York City, the companies have announced. The partnership kicked off yesterday and lasts until September 7. And tweeting about it will earn rewards.
Google has slashed the price of its Maps application programming interface (API). In a move to attract more enterprise use of the system, U.S. companies will now pay 50 cents instead of $4 for every thousand map loads, an 88 percent lower rate.
