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Google + Growth Accelerates To 65 Million Users

Google + Growth Accelerates To 65 Million Users

A new survey of Google Plus users shows that far from being in decline the social network is actually growing impressively adding 650,000 users a day and blowing past the 65 million user mark in December. The stats are certainly impressive even if it remains to be seen just how active those users actually are…

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Google Ring In Festive Season With Interactive Jingle Bells Doodle

Google Ring In Festive Season With Interactive Jingle Bells Doodle

Google have already thrown a lot of festive Easter eggs at us, ranging at the ‘let it snow’ search term to its Youtube equivalent. Now they’ve unveiled a final holiday themed surprise by changing their Google logo into an interactive lightshow…

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Youtube Makes Viral Videos Festive with Snowflakes Feature

Youtube Makes Viral Videos Festive with Snowflakes Feature

Alongside Google’s Let it Snow Easter egg which had its début earlier this week and Gmail’s personalised Santa, Youtube have included a similar button for its videos where you can make it snow for any video you’re watching on the site…

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Google Tap Into User Creativity With Search Caption Competition

Google Tap Into User Creativity With Search Caption Competition

Throughout its lifetime, Google has taken a lot of unusual and ‘unique’ search inquiries. To go through them would take a long time but Google have come up with a new competition which asks for unique search queries for different cartoons…

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Gmail Launches Personalized Santa Video Tool

Gmail Launches Personalized Santa Video Tool

In the month of December Google have been sharing lots of little surprises and presents with their users and today the team at Gmail have launched a series of personalized videos featuring the big man himself…Santa…

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Have Google Cracked The Biggest Problem In Social Media?

Have Google Cracked The Biggest Problem In Social Media?

The one biggest problem in social media at the moment is noise and trying to filter all the information that is flying past us in real time but a new feature which Google launched yesterday called volume control could go some way to answering the problems we all face…

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Google Plus Makes Impressive Changes Including Improved Photos And Business Pages

Google Plus Makes Impressive Changes Including Improved Photos And Business Pages

Although Google plus is not being embraced by the mainstream and is still confined to groups of techies and photographers you do have to admire the rate at which they are pushing updates live and their latest set of features including improved business pages and photographs are impressive…

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Google In-App Payments Now Rolled Out To International Businesses

Google In-App Payments Now Rolled Out To International Businesses

Having launched In-App Payments back in July for businesses based in the U.S., Google have expanded the service so that it is available in 17 extra countries.he regions benefiting from the service are mostly European countries with three being outside the region…

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Google Video Reveals Most Searched Terms In 2011

Google Video Reveals Most Searched Terms In 2011

It is that time of year again and Google have just released their Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review. It is a video that they release once a year and it wraps up all the big events of the year as seen by people in the online world through their search engines…

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Google Map Maker Gets Major Redesign: Available In 180 New Regions

Google Map Maker Gets Major Redesign: Available In 180 New Regions

Of all the Google products available, Map Maker is one of the lesser known ones having only really been available in the U.S. since April this year. Originally the services was to flesh out Google Maps as opposed to creating new ones…

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Google Maps Potential As Geographical Archive Highlighted With Japan Earthquake

Google Maps Potential As Geographical Archive Highlighted With Japan Earthquake

While its still a relatively young service and still improving, Google Maps has become an indispensable resource for navigation and making sense of new places. Yet perhaps in years to come, this will become the next logical use for the service. In Japan, to highlight the effects of the earthquake and tsunami…

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Google Lock Sights On FourSquare With Own Competitor Schemer

Google Lock Sights On FourSquare With Own Competitor Schemer

Google are branching out to location-based social media with their new competitor to Foursquare, Schemer. The site aims to make the concept more social by giving suggestions about what activities you can do wherever you are. But is this the best way to compete against the might of Facebook?

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