As Google has assured to resolve all privacy, security and cost concerns of the City of Los Angeles, the government seems to be impressed by the services and the bid offered by Google and has decided to Go Google. The government of the City of Los Angeles has planned to replace the Novell GroupWise email [...]
Google Wins Los Angeles Million-Dollar Contract
October 29th, 2009NC Wins Battle with SC for Google Jobs – but Taxpayers are Unhappy
October 28th, 2009A lawsuit has been brought by local taxpayers in Caldwell County, NC, challenging the state’s use of tax incentives to entice Google to set up a server farm there. The action will swing on whether individual taxpayers are legally entitled to challenge tax breaks. The N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law told three-judge panel at the [...]
China Chafing Over Google ‘Unfairness’
October 28th, 2009The People’s Daily, which is the main newspaper of China’s Communist Party, is claiming that Google censored their website. Apparently, the paper ran an article about a Chinese group which suggested Google’s book search settlement might violate the rights of Chinese authors. According to publishers, Google retaliated by adding a malware warning to search result [...]
Image Search Upgraded To Include Similar Images
October 28th, 2009Similar Images is a feature that was launched in Google’s Image Search in April. Google has now officially announced that this feature, Similar Images, would be a standard part of the image search technology that Google is offering. This feature Similar Image was originally introduced as a feature that the users can use to find [...]
See the Sergey Brin Video!
October 27th, 2009Sergey Brin can now be seen in this 18 minute video: The Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise visit to the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday, and spectators enjoyed seeing him interviewed on-stage by John Battelle. Brin has a clear sense of direction, and big plans for the future – as well as interesting taste [...]