When Google launched Google+ pages in November, the world set ablaze that finally a good competitor to Facebook pages has arrived. You can checkout out The Technology Café’s page here also. Simultaneously Google also released Google+ badges to promote your Google+ presence right on your site. Since then, it's been amazing to see the boost that a highly-visible badge can give to a +Page's followers -- 38% when we recently looked at the top sites.   That launch was just the beginning, but Continue Reading

  Yesterday we covered about Microsoft releasing full page newspapers ads pertaining to Google's new privacy policy rolled out last month, and Microsoft advocating that Google is very evil selling your data to advertisers and uses it for promoting its products to you. Microsoft also claimed in those ads that Google is reading your email.   Now in response to Microsoft's allegation, Google has geared up a full blog post on its public policy page stating that Microsoft is a devil and Continue Reading

  Concerned about changes in Google’s search and privacy practices? Microsoft is waiting with open arms. That’s the message from the Redmond software beast in an unusual series of full-page newspaper ads, starting today, that encourage people who are unhappy about Google’s latest moves to consider changing to Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Hotmail webmail service, Office 365 online productivity suite and Internet Explorer web browser.   After laying out concerns about Google’s Continue Reading

We all love Google Doodles right? The funny images and interactive logos that Google pops up every now and then like the one about Jingle Bells we covered at Christmas? And today Google is at it again celebrating the world largest snowflake celebrating its 125th anniversary. You wouldn’t believe it but the snowflake was 15 inches (38 centimeters)? Whoa to the people of Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887. Lets see the crazy video Google created to celebrate. You can even look at the Continue Reading

  Remember when Google launched  Social Search 2.0 (Search Plus Your World) earlier this month, it integrated more of its own social network Google+ results within the search and left out other networks such as twitter and Facebook.  Twitter was pretty unhappy about it and complained and who can forget the famous slap fight on twitter by PR heads of both the companies.   Focusing on the notion of “Don’t be evil” in search a bunch of Facebook engineers – along with Continue Reading

      YouTube streams 4 billion online videos each day, more than one for every other person on Earth and a 25% jump over eight months ago. YouTube, a unit of Google, attributed the growth to iterations of the website on smartphones and TVs that have encouraged more use, according to Reuters. The number of uploads on the platform is also staggering: about 60 hours of video is now added to the site every minute, compared to 48 hours a minute in May.       One Continue Reading

        Yesterday Google launched some changes to their  privacy policies and Google Terms of Service. This stuff matters, so we wanted to explain what’s changing, why and what these changes mean for users.   Privacy policies:   Despite trimming their policies in 2010, Google still has more than 70 (yes, you read right … 70) privacy documents covering all of their different products. This approach is somewhat complicated. It’s also at odds with the efforts Continue Reading

  Remember when Google launched  Social Search 2.0 earlier this month, it integrated more of its own social network Google+ results within the search and left out other networks such as twitter and Facebook.  Twitter was pretty unhappy about it and complained and who can forget the famous slap fight on twitter by PR heads of both the companies.   Now focusing on the notion of “Don’t be evil” in search a bunch of Facebook engineers – along with engineers from Twitter Continue Reading

If you think your memory has fallen off a cliff over the past ten years or so, it might not be memory loss due to aging. It might be due to the way Google restructures how our brains archive knowledge. Why bother storing a voluminous amount of knowledge in our gray matter when we can instead remember a search query to pull the same information at a later date? This evolution of how we learn and retain details might allow us to be more efficient in our consumption of information, but what happens Continue Reading

If you try to create a Google account from Google's homepage, you'll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that's not all. You'll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you'll automatically join Google+. Until now, creating a Google account was quite simple. You could either use an existing email address or create a Gmail account. The redesigned form includes new fields: name, gender (required for Google+) and mobile phone number (not required). Continue Reading

Yesterday we covered an interesting article about IT salaries rising in the world despite hard economic times. Companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon are topping the charts of graduates for best places to work for. Fortune magazine just released a list of 100 top companies to work for in its recent edition of the magazine and placed Google at the Top. What makes it so great? Everything was up at Google last year -- revenue, profits, share price, paid search clicks, hiring -- and so, Continue Reading

  Google+ is the hottest technology and social media term since last June. Every critic and web user is thinking how will Google challenge Facebook to conquer the world of Social Media. In todays recent earnings call Larry Page disclosed the number of users on Google+ in a press release. “I am super excited about the growth of Android, Gmail, and Google+, which now has 90 million users globally – well over double what I announced just three months ago,” Page says. “By building Continue Reading

From trick shots and game clips to commentary and live events, sports has always been one of the most popular categories on YouTube. And to promote even more ports Channels into the limelight, YouuTube is kicking off a new lineup of action sports Channels that bring great original content to you: Alli Sports: Whether you want tips from your favorite athlete on how to pull off their signature trick, a behind the curtain look into the lives of the biggest and fastest rising stars in the sports, Continue Reading

It’s a big day on the internet today as many companies including the likes of Google, Microsoft, WordPress and the worlds biggest encyclopedia Wikipedia have blacked out their logos and their sites completely opposing and protesting against the SOPA and PIPA bill.   Wikipedia     Earlier today we informed our readers that Wikipedia wont be available today on the 18th of January 2012 as it has completely blacked out its English based site.       Google: Continue Reading

Google’s is an extremely cool company and its experiments rocks. Many of us use the internet on a daily basis and mostly at public places, where we are never sure that the security within the network is good or can it be compromised and eventually our passwords be hacked. Thankfully Google has come out with something brilliant, a QR code experiment seems to have been concluded for now, but with a promise of new security features to come. So how did it work: Go to accounts.google.com/sesame Continue Reading