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Did you explore the new Google Trends Visualize Hot Searches?

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Google is like gold mine when it comes to flow real data. Know what people are searching, Google it. Know what people are viewing, Google it. Know what your favorite Celebs likes, Google it.... Its hard to imagine internet without Google and its products in this Digital age.

Google Trends is a product of Google which lets you know what people are searching and what hots on internet. The new avatar of Google Trend is very intuitive. Right in its homepage, it displays the hot topic for the day and its previous day.

Who started Google's Doodle?

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On a special day, Google comes out with their own way, making that special with Doodle, mostly designed by professionals and some time by kids, who's doodle get chosen by the competition organised by Google itself.


All of this Google doodle tradition was started a decade ago in 2000, Summer. Dennis Hwang, who was doing a internship with Google, was a Stanford graduate in art and computer science. He did his first doodle for Bastille Day in July 2000.

Paypal might had hit hard with the announcement of 'Google Wallet',

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By: GT

With a revolution in evolution of mobile payment, things are getting serious in the business world.

After launching Nexus S, which has special chip called NFC(Near Field Communication)Google is trying to make a market of its own with a launch of it's new app called 'Google Wallet'.

This announcement was a big blow for Paypal, an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet, as Google rise might be trouble for their business in this field.

Theortically, Microsoft's Bing could overtake Google in search arena by 2012

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According to latest data released by Experian Hitwise, Google may no longer be Search Engine king and may lose it's throne to Microsoft's Bing.

According to the data, Google was responsible for 64.42% of searches in the U.S. in March, 2011. Where as it's rival Bing-powered search (search.yahoo.com + bing.com) accounted for 30% of U.S. searches.

Google trying to compete in wrong way?

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European Commission had received a new complaint from French search engine 1plusV about Google's alleged anti-competitive behaviour. Following similar complaints from price comparison site Foundem and legal search engine ejustice.fr last year.

This type of complaints made European Commission probe into Google's business practices, which is ongoing.

Google's Nexus S shocks Google engineers with its outer atmosphere performance.

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The team from Google were happy and have been taken by pleasant surprise after Nexus S, the Official Google's second phone, was found working even fine even at the earth's outer atmosphere - at 60,000 feet.

The tiny Androids strapped to seven payloads to test the outer limits of Nexus S were carried into the Earth's outer atmosphere using weather balloons, the Daily Mail reported.

Google search engine gets updates, now detects compromised sites and alerts

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ON friday, Dec 14, Google announced that its had made some upgrades to its search engine which included alerting people to hacked websites that make it into query results.

"We've added new notifications to the results page to warn you when sites may have been compromised, spammed or defaced," Google director of product management Mike Cassidy said in a blog post.

Google shells out whopping $2 billion for New York office

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Search giant Google confirmed that it had bought one of the most prestigious office buildings in Manhattan.

Thought the amount which the Google payed for the property at 111 Eighth Avenue building wasn't disclosed, but the Los Angeles Times put the price at $2 billion.

What did people searched on Google in the year 2010

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As the year 2010 is near to its end, Google comes up with Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched

Dec 7, big day for Google, launches its own broswer based OS notebook and its app store.

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The much exiting day for Google lovers, Google debuts it own OS(Operating system), Chrome OS, based on the open-source Chromium OS.

Google launches its first netbook named Cr-48, preloaded with Chrome OS. Google will distribute the laptop through its Chrome OS Pilot Program and for the masses it may be available starting mid 2011.

After Digitizing the library world, Google opens e-book store.

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Criticized by many book author for digitizing their books, and digitizing almost major books across world with the help of libraries,Google now plans to sell it. Google is going to launch its own digital books store.

Formerly known as Google Editions,Google eBooks, is expected to launches in the US on 6 December.

It has over three million e-books to download for a wide range of devices, competing with Amazon and Apple's iBookstore.

Search Giant Google own Operating System Chrome OS may be unveiled on Dec 7th.

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The much awaited and much hyped project of Google developing their own OS may be out by Dec 7th.

Chrome Team had invited media for this event which is schedule on Dec 7th.

The other announcement by the team may be a Web/app store for Chrome OS .

Google pays only $ 1 in settlement over tresspassing.

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In a recent lawsuit settlement, Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued.

U.S. District Magistrate Judge Cathy Bissoon on Thursday signed off on a consent judgment, a mutually agreed-upon verdict, between the Mountain View, Calif. company and Aaron and Christine Boring, of Franklin Park.

Google social product names as Emerald Sea for internal reference: TC

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According to research and from sources close to Tech site Tech Crunch, The internal codename for Google’s upcoming social project is “Emerald Sea“.

As one of their sources told , these codenames quickly evolve. As of right now, we’re hearing it’s being called “Google +1″ or “Google Plus One”.

Another source suggests another possible name Google is considering: “@Google” or “At Google”.

New York Times article leads to change in Google search result ranking Algorithm

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On Wednesday Google had announced that it had changed the way it ranks search results.

This happened because The New York Times published about the ordeal of Clarabelle Rodriguez, who bought a pair of glasses and contact lenses from DecorMyEyes in July.

The change was prompted by a recent incident involving Vitaly Borker, a Brooklyn-based online seller of eyeglasses. Mr Borker claimed that he purposely shouted at and frightened some of the customers at DecorMyEyes.com because the online complaints actually worked in his favour in Google search results.

Google UK comes with Samaritans link-ups for life stress issues

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Google UK comes up with noble cause offering a link-up with Samaritans, displaying the charity's helpline number in response to UK search queries relating to suicide.

Samaritans in the UK offer confidential support by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 08457 90 90 90.

This link up appears when web users enters the word "suicide" or the phrase "commit suicide" will now be shown a red telephone icon at the top of the list of results.

Major US television networks blocks its channel to Google TV .

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Major US Television networks like Viacom, Fox, CBS, ABC and NBC had blocked their programs airing against Google TV .

They refused to let full shows air on Google's new platform where users can view the web and video on home TVs over fear ad revenue crisis.

Employee fired by Google for leaking salary hike plan

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One of the Google employee got fired for leaking its plans to give a 10 per cent salary hike to all 23,000 of its employees across the world next year.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt had written an email to employees on Tuesday about the salary hike plan, which was leaked to the media by an employee.

Google's street view helps to nab car thief suspect

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Apart from nabbing others privacy and wi-fi passwords, Google's street view helped a caravan owner whose vehicle was stolen found the person who stole when he was checking his house in Google street maps .

The image shows a large, bald man with spectacles standing besides a 4-by-4 vehicle parked on the victim's driveway, shortly before the theft took place.

Servants are the latest to join the latest in list of perks for the Google Staff

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Google in order to attract the efficient and innovative engineers are now going to give servants as perk to help in household work, including picking up dinners and cleaning .

TaskRabbit is going to provide this service.