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Google Dashboard Reveals Your Digital Dossier

We've before pondered the question: How much does Google know about you? Now, Google wants to give you the answer. In excruciating detail. The big 'G' just launched Google Dashboard, a service that summarizes the data stored by the various Google ... Read more →

Google Street View Catches Burning Van 22 days ago on Switched

Google Street View provides endless entertainment, as the Googlemobile frequently catches people basking in the nude, breaking into buildings, and hiding out while they should be working. Breaking with tradition, though, I Am The Worst Blogger ...

Google Launching E-Book Store Next Year 23 days ago on Switched

Google is finally trying to make some money from its controversial Google Books project. Sometime early next year, Google Editions will be launched as an outlet for e-books, thanks to deals the search giant has struck with publishers. Right out of ...

Verizon Getting Android Phones With Google Partnership 1 month ago on Switched

Verizon and Google announced a new partnership that will bring Android powered devices to the cellular carrier in the coming weeks. While we knew that Android handsets were coming to Big Red, the press release suggests this partnership goes beyond ...

Google Sidewiki Lets Users Comment on Any Web Page 1 month ago on Switched

Google just keeps rolling out new products and features, and snatching up companies. Last week, it launched a new way to view news with Fast Flip. Then the Goog bought reCAPTCHA, a company that provides anti-spam and fraud services for Web sites. ...

Google Confirms Lennon: Beatles Are More Popular Than Jesus 1 month ago on Switched

It only took 40 years, but it seems that John Lennon's 1966 comment that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus has actually been statistically validated. According to the Telegraph, data from Google trends, a site which determines Google's ...

Google Developing Cheaper Mirror Technology for Solar Panels 1 month ago on Switched

In 2007, Google announced that it was delving into scientific research, specifically the investigation and development of viable green energy sources. According to Reuters, the world's biggest brand is particularly interested in solar power and ...

Google Enlarges Search Box, Promises More Fun 1 month ago on Switched

You know how in movies, a character plays a trick on another by subtly changing something to which they're accustomed? Like the size of their favorite slippers, or the location of a trusted hat rack, causing the victim to toss their cap onto the ...

Woman Reunites With Birth Family After Simple Google Search 2 months ago on Switched

Ebony Keck was given up for adoption when she was two-years-old, and has wondered about the family from which she was separated ever since. Almost 20 years later, the young Pennsylvania woman is set to reunite with her birth family, all because ...

Google Chrome, One Year Later 2 months ago on Switched

A year ago this week -- on September 1st of 2008, to be exact -- Google set the world (or, at least the geek world) abuzz by unveiling its browser project known as Chrome. When the browser first hit the market, there were plenty of questions at the ...

Google Receives Patent for Home Page Design 2 months ago on Switched

Further increasing its dominance over everything Web-related, Google received a patent Tuesday for the design of its home page, according to Gawker. One might ask, "What is there to patent?" After all, the design is minimalist at best and plain at ...

YouTube to Stream Rental Movies? 2 months ago on Switched

DVD sales plummeted in 2008, as some companies, specifically Warner Bros., watched their numbers drop by as much as 24-percent from the previous year. Many analysts attribute the decline to the economy, believing that people are foregoing hefty ...

Google Addresses Yesterday's Gmail Outage 2 months ago on Switched

Google's Gmail service crashed yesterday afternoon at approximately 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, blocking users from their accounts for approximately 100 minutes. While this isn't the first outage to affect the e-mail service, Google representatives ...

Philip Garrido Kidnapping Case Displays the Reach of Google 2 months ago on Switched

Philip Garrido is, to put it mildly, a creepy dude. (We prefer to describe him as a tad 'rapey' looking). Everything surrounding the case of the confessed kidnapper, rapist, and now suspected serial killer is unsettling. The case gets truly bizarre ...

Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo! Join Coalition Against Google Books 2 months ago on Switched

Last October, Google agreed to pay a $125 million settlement to the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers in order to continue its digital publishing venture, Google Books. But the move still has to meet court approval. The Los ...

Judge Orders Google to Identify 'Skanks' Blogger 2 months ago on Switched

Remember back in January when model Liskula Cohen was the target of a blog called 'Skanks in NYC?' The Google Blogger-hosted site featured embarrassing, personal photos of Cohen, and the anonymous author said of her: "I would have to say that first ...

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