Posts Tagged ‘google’

Google Honing Search Results to Users

Published by technicalguy on January 29th, 2012 - in Technology

Come March 1st you may see even more focused advertising in your Google searches.

Google announced a new privacy policy that takes effect March 1st that will start combining nearly all the information it has on its users.

This could mean, for instance, that when users search via Google, the company will use their activities on sister sites like Gmail and YouTube to influence those users’ search results.

Google hasn’t done that before.

Depending on how you feel about targeted advertising this could be a benefit, as you will see ads that closely reflect you and your activities on the Net. However it could also mean that your online privacy has taken another dip and you are yet again more easily trackable. You’ve probably already noticed that advertising seems to follow you from website to website and personally I feel this restricts your exposure to new products and things that may ordinarily be “outside your box”.

You may feel different, however after March 1st you may not have a choice.

Google Bookstore Live In Canada

Published by technicalguy on November 2nd, 2011 - in Amazon Kindle, eBooks, eReader, Kobo, Nook, Vancouver

Google made their bookstore available to Canadians on Tuesday.

http://books.google.ca/ebooks

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Hey Canadians – Help Google Maps!

Published by technicalguy on October 24th, 2011 - in Internet, Vancouver

Google is inviting Canadians to improve the Google Maps for their local area

They have released a new tool called Map Maker, that allows you to add roads, rivers, trails and points of interest or correct information that is wrong or outdated.

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Google Android 4.0

Published by technicalguy on October 19th, 2011 - in SmartPhone

The newest version of the Google Android OS for both mobile phone and tablets, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is out and available on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Android 4.0 is supposed to be the android OS that bridges the phone and tablet, adapting to one or the other easily.

The new Nexus phone will be out in US, UK and hopefully Canada in November 2011, with a 4.65” Amoled screen at 1280×720 pixels, 5 megapixel camera and 1080p video. Google claims that 550,000 Android devices are activated daily.

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Google Music Store

Published by technicalguy on October 16th, 2011 - in Cloud, Internet

Google hoping to announce its new music store before the end of October, when Apple opens iTunes Match. It will probably be an expansion of Music Beta (only available in the US). Nobody at Google or the music industry wants to comment, since negotiations are still in progress. Article here.

The End of Google Buzz

Published by technicalguy on October 15th, 2011 - in Social Media

Did you use Google Buzz? Do you know anyone who did – or still does? Probably not.

Google Buzz, launched in Feb 2010 as a competitor to Twitter, is now being shut down. The death bell was first rung when Google + launched this past June and Google has now made it official. Google Buzz will be gone in a few weeks.

Google also announced the end of the social features in iGoogle, and Jaiku

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