Category: Other Google Topics

Google quietly launched a feature that lets you import your videos loaded into Google+ directly to your YouTube channel.

Keane from the YouTube team posted the information in the YouTube Forums saying:

We have launched a new feature that will allow y…

Truth is, this is nothing new, people have been impersonating Matt Cutts since the GoogleGuy days. I’ve seen many comments here from “Matt Cutts” that were indeed not from Matt Cutts, I’ve seen people claim Matt emailed them when he did not…
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Google’s top business leaders, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle have teamed up to write a book about their experience in running Google over the years. The book is named “How Google Works” and the companion web site is at howgoogleworks…

A month ago, Google announced it is slowly getting into the domain name registration business through Google Domains and offered a form to sign up to be invited…

As you know, Google has started taking down content in the European Union based on the right to be forgotten form submission requests.

Google shared statistics with both the Wall Street Journal…

With Google’s Matt Cutts taking an extended vacation, I wanted to know, who at Google will take the blame for new algorithms being released.

Typically when big updates are announced…

Alright, so my Photoshop skills aren’t the best but the fact is, Matt Cutts, Google’s on-leave spam boss, did indeed travel as a passenger in a Google self driving car.

Not the one in the picture here, but the ones that were installed on real cars…
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Google is constantly testing things from new algorithms that we cannot directly see, to the user interface that we do directly see. In a recent Google test, Google is showing the old top navigation bar, in black…

Google announced last night on Google+ that they have removed their naming restrictions, preventing you from using nicknames and pseudonyms.

So if you wanted to use the name “rustybrick” because you didn’t want to use your real name, for privacy reas…

As expected, Google has brought Ingress, Google’s near-real time augmented reality where you have to fractions trying to secure or take portals. Or something like that.

The game is now available for iOS users…

Google has an advisory council specifically designed around the Right To Be Forgotten topic…

Google has redesigned the Google Webmaster Central Blog yesterday to give it an updated and cleaner look and make it work better on mobile devices.

Here is the old version:

Here is the new version:

Sadly…

I don’t think anyone would argue that Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, were not incredibly smart – not even the people who read here and hate Google. They are widely smart people, the co-founders…

This morning, tons of people on social networks like Twitter, in the Google Web Search Help forum (only link to one example of many), reported Google was not loading and instead was returning a server error, 500 code…

Google posted a new robots.txt file at google.com/killer-robots.txt that is designed to help secure the Google co-founders…

Last night, Google announced on Google+ that they have published the first set of Android Wear apps in the Google Play Store.

Jason Calacanis, a well known angel investor, who helped launch many brands, products and software ideas – is still incredibly mad at Google and directly, Matt Cutts over the Panda algorithm and how it destroyed his other start up…

Google announced that after ten years, they will be closing down Orkut, their first social network.

Google is shutting down the service on September 30, 2014 but the public communities will be archived and viewable starting on the shutdown date…
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A big day for Google Glass, right before Google I/O. Google announced that all new shipped Google Glass devices are being updated to improve with 2GB of RAM. This should make the…

Yesterday, Google announced on Google+ that they are testing out selling domain name registration services to third-parties. Right now, you need to be invited to participate, like with Gmail originally, and when you are…