Tag Archives: Google

Jan
24

YouTube gets 4 billion views per day

YouTube Logo Google has been boasting about the ever increasing popularity of its online video platform. Posting on its blog page, the company announced that YouTube now receives 4 billion video views per.. more
Jan
18

Wikipedia blackout protest against SOPA

Wikipedia Protests against SOPA (America’s Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Protect Intellectual Property Act) have kicked up a gear today. Google.com (not the UK version of the site, though) has.. more
Jan
16

Murdoch says Google profits from piracy

Google Logo Rupert Murdoch only recently opened up his Twitter account, but he’s quickly accrued some 140,000 followers, and made some controversial tweets. He’s had a pop at Google and Obama, no less,.. more
Jan
11

Google doodle celebrates Nicolas Steno

Google has sketched up another doodle this morning. The latest piece of search engine-based artwork celebrates the life of Nicolas Steno. Today is the 374th anniversary of the birth of the Danish Catholic clergyman and scientist who was a prominent figure in the fields of.. more
Jan
05

Google tablet to challenge Kindle Fire?

Rumours first emerged just before Christmas that Google was planning on creating its own brand tablet. The firm has produced its own smartphones – or got Samsung to – with the Nexus range, so it isn’t too much of a stretch to imagine it has.. more
Jan
03

Google home page revamp inbound

Google has been tweaking its various sites left, right and centre since the launch of Google+. YouTube was the latest site to receive a major redesign, and now Google is turning its attention to the centrepiece of its business, the actual search page itself. Although.. more
Dec
31

Google unveils New Year’s Eve doodle

Yes, Christmas has been and gone, and now we’re at New Year’s Eve, the final day of the year. And naturally enough Google isn’t about to usher 2012 in without some form of doodle being splashed over its home page by way of celebration. After.. more
Dec
21

Google renews Firefox search deal

You might recall at the start of the month, we wrote an article about the fact that Firefox’s search deal with Google was up for renewal. This is the agreement whereby Google is the default search engine in Mozilla’s browser, a privilege which the big.. more
Dec
20

Google to bring out own tablet?

Not content with producing its own (Samsung manufactured) smartphone in the Nexus, Google may also be looking to bring out a tablet. That’s the latest buzz after Ex-CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt spoke to an Italian newspaper, the Corriere della Sera. According to Engadget, he.. more
Dec
19

Google unloads snow joke

‘Tis the season to be jolly, of course. And in the spirit of having a hearty laugh, or at least a slight chuckle, Google has come up with something of a surprise in the form of a hidden search or Easter egg, as they are.. more