Image Courtesy of Android PoliceGift cards and wish lists are coming to the Google Play store, according to the Android Police website, whose hackers uncovered code supporting the features in a new update of the store’s application package. Blogger Artem Russakovskii says he discovered the new features in the app by comparing the code in...Read More
8:56 p.m. | Updated SAN FRANCISCO — Google made another foray into producing original content Monday when it announced its plans to buy the Frommer’s brand of travel guides from John Wiley Sons to augment its local and travel search results. Google will pay about $23 million for the brand, according to a person close...Read More
Google’s new copyright-policing policy apparently won’t affect Google-owned YouTube as it does other Web sites, despite the fact that YouTube has been known to play host to illegally posted copyrighted material. The new policy, announced yesterday, knocks sites down in search results if Google receives a lot of “valid copyright removal notices” involving content on...Read More
Google search will be less welcoming to sites accused by copyright owners of piracy. On the company’s blog, Google outlined a new measure designed at penalizing sites that generate too many complaints from copyright owners. “We will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we...Read More
Google is gearing up to test out a search feature that integrates with Gmail. The idea is that when a Google search-engine user types in a query, the results that come up will not only be from the public web, but also from their personal Gmail account. This means that if someone searches “best restaurant”,...Read More
Google has introduced the first of at least two Olympic-themed interactive doodles to celebrate London 2012. The doodle lets you get in the spirit of the games as an armchair, and keyboard, athlete. Tuesday’s doodle features a hurdle race where you control the runner with your keyboard’s arrow keys and spacebar. If you miss a...Read More
Google has created an interactive visualization that shows patterns and trends in imports and exports of small arms and ammunition across the world, which it says is an $8.5 billion industry. The graphic, which Google built using the open source WebGL Globe on Google’s Chrome Experiments site, shows the earth with fiery lines that indicate...Read More
(By Mani) Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has its extended its foothold in social media advertising by acquiring Wildfire, which helps firms deploy marketing campaigns on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). The deal comes as the proliferation of social media, and an increased demand by consumers to engage with brands across multiple social...Read More
Google has upgraded its Wallet app to include all major credit and debit cards. (Credit: Google) As Google announced its major upgrade for Google Wallet yesterday — in which shoppers could use any type of major credit card to load up their smartphone — American Express confirmed today that it didn’t agree to such a...Read More
(Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Google today issued a wide-ranging update to its Developer Program Policy, with the aim of making “Google Play a great community for developers and consumers.” The search giant zeroed in on two issues it’s seeing across the Google Play landscape — “deceptive app names and spammy notifications.” From now on,...Read More
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