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See All of Google's April Fool's Day Pranks

Emerald Catron — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:20:00 +0000

If you’re anything like us, you probably have no idea what day it is. Well, it’s Monday, April 1st. Yes, it’s April Fool’s Day, which means that Google is planning to pull the wool over our eyes all day long. Here are some of the pranks they’re pulling, in case you are super-gullible. Google Nose [...]

Google Makes Year in Review Video for Folks Who Weren't Paying Attention

Emerald Catron — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:05:26 +0000

It’s nice to know that Google isn’t just harvesting information about us and selling it to advertisers. Look! They also used our searches to make this video! The video, ‘Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review,’ shows the top (non-porn) search terms for the last year and includes video as much as possible. If they included porn [...]

Google 'Dying Grandparent' On Google Images And You Get… Christina Aguilera?!

Dan Seitz — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:00:04 +0000

Christina Aguilera has fallen victim to an exceptionally strange search engine quirk: If you Google ‘dying grandparent’ in Google Images, it’s predominantly images of her, and she’s neither a grandparent nor dying. So what’s going on? It’s a result of a gossip item published in June about her family troubles. Aguilera was widely considered to [...]

Non-Existent Island Pops Up On Google Maps

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:00:50 +0000

There are hundreds of thousands of uninhabited islands on our planet. The South Pacific island of Sandy isn’t one of them… That’s not because there are people secretly living on the sixty-square-mile land mass. It’s because Sandy, despite appearing on Google maps, doesn’t actually exist. Researchers from the University of Sydney became confused when Sandy popped up on Google [...]

Google Steals Christmas, Deletes Entire Month of December from App

Donald Deane — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:30:00 +0000

Find yourself wishing the holidays were over already? Well, thanks to a bug in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, the month of December has been canceled altogether. Is Google the new Grinch?

17-Year-Old Brittany Wenger Wins Honors At Google Science Fair for Beast Cancer Detection Program [VIDEO]

Mary Martin — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:00:55 +0000

When I was a kid my science fair projects usually involved a solar system model made out of Styrofoam balls or the workings of tectonic plates with Karo Syrup and a hot plate. That wouldn’t win a participation ribbon at a prestigious event like the Google Science Fair though. Brittany Wenger of Florida won with her breast cancer detection computer program that she [...]

Privacy In a "Google" World

Howard Hart — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:42:35 +0000

More IT personal security responsibility on the horizon for us. Google’s change in its privacy policy makes our private information less so. In order to keep your vitals from being shared with other Google products and perhaps being used by those you don’t want to use it, there are some Google software setting we need to alter

We Can Have a White Christmas with a Google Easter Egg

Mary Martin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:58:44 +0000

Google has all sorts of need tricks that appear when you type certain phrase in the Google search bar. These are called "Easter Eggs." With the "Let it Snow" Easter Egg we can have a White Christmas after all!

Google Street View — How Do They Do That?

Rick Taylor — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:37:05 +0000

Since Google came out with it's "street view" feature I have always wondered how they did that. I just knew that it could not be from a satellite, because well, that's "satellite" view. Hmm. I was puzzled, so decided to do some looking into how they do it.