Posts tagged with the keyword: ‘google’

How Old is Google? Birthday Cake Marks their 12th Year

How Old is Google?  Birthday Cake Marks their 12th Year

Today Google has a birthday cake up on their homepage for all users to see. Many people are asking, “How old is Google?” Well the answer is that it is Google’s 12th birthday, as you can find out if you mouse-over the image of the birthday cake. If you do so you will see a [...]

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New Google Instant Search Not Working Everywhere Yet

New Google Instant Search Not Working Everywhere Yet

Yesterday Google announced a new search feature called “Google Instant Search”. It is working on most upgraded browsers for people in the United States, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and part of Russia. However, Google Instant is not working on all browsers, and there are countries still waiting for the new feature to be implemented [...]

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Google Logo Today Consists of Bouncing Balls and Dots on Homepage

Google Logo Today Consists of Bouncing Balls and Dots on Homepage

Today marks the 12th birthday of Google. In celebration of such an important holiday among internet users, the Google homepage consists of a Google logo made up of bouncing dots and balls. They just aren’t your normal Google balls though. They are interactive with the a user’s mouse pointer. If you hover over the word [...]

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Google Buzz Reaches Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

Google Buzz Reaches Class Action Lawsuit Settlement

When Google Buzz launched its service, no one thought for a minute that it would cause them so much grief. Yesterday Google agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for $8.5 million. When first launched, there was talk over whether or not the service would be competition to social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. A [...]

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Black Ribbon on Google Commemorates Hurricane Katrina Anniversary

Black Ribbon on Google Commemorates Hurricane Katrina Anniversary

Google today is displaying a small, yet tasteful black ribbon on the bottom of it’s homepage to honor the 5th year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina striking the Louisiana coast. On August 29th 2005, Katrina officially made landfall near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana with 125 mph winds, as a strong Category 3 storm. Katrina, which was one of [...]

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Google Purchases Comparison Shopping Website Like.com

Google Purchases Comparison Shopping Website Like.com

It has been rumored for over 5 years now that Google was interested in comparison shopping website Like.com. However, nothing ever seemed to materialize as far as acquiring the company goes. Google already runs a comparison shopping site, called “Google Products”, which has been in beta for a long time now, and hasn’t seen any [...]

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‘I Am Extremely Terrified Of Chinese People’ Suggested by Google?

‘I Am Extremely Terrified Of Chinese People’ Suggested by Google?

A lot of people were writing to TheNewsOfToday this morning asking us why it seems like people are looking for the phrase “I Am Extremely Terrified Of Chinese People” on search engines. Many websites that pick out daily trending topics for some reason picked up on this phrase as well. The reasoning is quite simple. [...]

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Google is Celebrating 90 Years Since the Ratification of the 19th Amendment, Guaranteeing Women the Right to Vote

Google is Celebrating 90 Years Since the Ratification of the 19th Amendment, Guaranteeing Women the Right to Vote

If you were to use Google today, you would have seen a notification towards the bottom of the site saying, “Celebrating 90 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote”. Google isn’t known for putting much on their website for holidays, or to mark certain occasions. However, they must [...]

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Why Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a Buy

Why Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a Buy

It’s not often that a $150 billion dollar company has the potential to double it’s value in a few years time, however Google (GOOG) may just do exactly that. It seems as though most analysts mainly focus on the Current Ad business that Google is dominating in, however there are several up and coming branches [...]

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Google Wave: Gone but not Forgotten

Google Wave:  Gone but not Forgotten

When Google Wave first came out, many technology experts thought it would change the way people forever communicated online. However, only 3 months after it’s official public release, Google has decided to shut the service down. Wave did not catch on quite as much as they had originally anticipated. Many people thought it was a [...]

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