Tag: Google
In an anonymous leak, an alleged former Google employee, is accusing the company of deliberately trying to cheat websites who publish Google AdSense ads. The accusation, published on Pastebin, states that Google created a policy explicitly to steal profits, while turning a blind eye to “VIPs.” Google executive Matt Cutts took to a popular developers’ forum, Hacker […]
There’s a minor kind of magic that happens every once in a while when you’re using Google Street View. You’re stepping along when all of a sudden the landscape drastically changes — buildings change hands, gentrification marches on, natural disasters happen. Because of the patchwork way in which Google sends cameras out to update its […]
Christina Rinaldi was announced winner of Saatchi Gallery’s first Motion Photography Prize last night in London for her black-and-white window washing GIF. Organized in association with Google+ (to hype their “Auto Awesome” feature), the award was juried by “forward-thinkers,” — film director Baz Luhrmann, Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst, artists Shezad Dawood, Tracey Emin and […]
New York is expensive, New Jersey is bad, Maine is white, Louisiana is racist. Pennsylvania, for some reason, is haunted. These are the stereotypes put forth by Google’s autocomplete feature when you enter “Why is [xyz state] so…” The map below was created by @Amazing_Maps. Seriously, though: why is Nebraska so boring? […]
For those of you who are concerned about the government–or anyone else–profiling you based on your web-surfing habits, here’s Paranoid Browsing, a new Chrome extension that may throw big brother off your trail. It works by opening a tab in the background that randomly browses through the internet, jamming your history with sites you didn’t […]
Okay, so someone who happens to be royalty is having a baby. That’s great, and it’s undoubtably a big news event considering that this soon to be baby could one day inherit the British throne. However, that’s not much of a pressing concern to some of us in the U.S., and there’s no reason that […]
It’s hard out there for a porn blogger. According to an email Google sent some users this week, the company is moving to “strictly prohibit the monetization of Adult content on Blogger,” meaning that any sites on the Google-owned blogging platform that continue to display “adult” ads after June 30 will be shut down. Read the […]
At 2,722 feet, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, is almost 1.5 times the size of the finished 1WTC, at 1,776 feet (take that, freedom!). What’s it like inside? The latest installment of Google’s Trekker Street View project, which maps areas inaccessible to the company’s camera-equipped vans (check out the Grand Canyon here) goes […]
Technology has a way of giving us our deepest desires, for better or worse. The iPhone is destroying our attention spans. Soon enough, our Google Glass is going to record your life for you, identifying faces and remembering what you did last night. Google’s new mobile operating system is based around the premise of tracking […]
Hollywood studios ask Google to remove links to their content all the time. Say a pirated copy of Taken 2 pops up on the search engine, for example–20th Century Fox can send what’s called a Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown notice to Google and have any the offending content removed from search. These takedown searches and notices […]
