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Google takes giant leap into social search with Search+

January 10, 2012 in News Roundup

Google has taken a major step towards relevant social search results with the announcement of Search+ this week.

Search+ provides users with the option of ‘Personal Results’ – a unique search results page combining content from people you’re connected to on Google+ with other relevant search results from across the web.

“Just as in real life, your friends’ experiences are often so much more meaningful to you than impersonal content on the web”, Google wrote on their blog.

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Google short film celebrates 2011 – and Google

January 9, 2012 in News Roundup

“We made it”, proclaims Google’s short film charting the events on 2011.

At the end of a film which references many of the terrible and memorable events of last year, the statement sounds like a celebration of the human spirit.

The video leaves you with a warm feeling full of pride in people’s ability to overcome obstacles – and a strong after-taste of self-congratulatory double-meaning.

Google made it. Google made the year 2011. And to think I’d been getting all emotional.

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Google simplifies its homepage

January 5, 2012 in News Roundup

The new Google redesign abandons horizontal top of the page navigation aiming to create a “beautifully simple and intuitive” user experience.

On the new homepage all the Google services, such as News, Maps and Gmail, are nested under the logo in a drop-down menu.

Google+ will be the only service that will maintain its own permanent icon in the new design.

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Vast majority of brands' sites not tailored for mobile

June 21, 2011 in News Roundup

marks_and_spencer_mobileAs many as eight out of 10 brands working with Google do not have a mobile-optimised website.

Ian Carrington, Google’s head of mobile, said these brands needed to learn from businesses such as House of Fraser and Marks and Spencer.

Speaking at the IAB Mobile Engage event, he said brands which were not mobile-ready were already missing out on ‘such a big opportunity’

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Google's April fools' joke right on target

April 4, 2011 in News Roundup

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The way technology is going, Google’s April fools’ spoof may not actually have been an obvious fake to those immersed in the digital industry.

In a world of constant updates, some are getting suspicious we are just generating new technology for the sake of it.

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Accessibility on agenda for BBC and Google

January 21, 2011 in News Roundup, Uncategorized

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Web developer Gary Robson says that the BBC provides a great example of what can be achieved when the owner of the site views accessibility as a basic requirement, not an inconvenient optional extra.

In addition to making sure all of their content is usable by the widest possible range of people, the broadcaster has also dedicated a separate site to provide accessibility help for its users.

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Google tops list of web's most dangerous

January 5, 2011 in News Roundup

google_virusGoogle has topped the list of 2010′s most dangerous websites.

Compiled by virus and malware company Trend Micro, an annual review revealed the search giant’s homepage to be an ideal target for cybercriminals.

Google’s popularity has led the site to be used as a signpost to malware threats and dangerous ads.

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700 billion YouTube views in 2010

December 24, 2010 in News Roundup

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YouTube has announced that its users have uploaded more than 13 million hours of video content to its servers in the last 12 months, resulting in more than 700 billion YouTube video views.

If you do the math, it means that YouTube’s users have uploaded 850,000 minutes of video and watched 1.9 billion videos per day in the past year. In March, the Google-owned video site announced that its users were uploading more than 24 hours of video per minute. In May, YouTube revealed that it had surpassed 2 billion video views per day.

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Profile: Lars Rasmussen

December 9, 2010 in Micro-Bites

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Lars Rasmussen is a computer scientist and a software developer best know as the co-founder of Google Maps.

Born in Denmark, Lars has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Aarhus, an MSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of California at Berkley.

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Google dominates digital news

December 5, 2010 in News Roundup

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It’s been a busy week for Google. The most recent news confirmed the rumoured $6m deal with a fast-growing voucher website Groupon is off, but the search giant has kept itself busy with other plans and acquisitions.

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