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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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