Don Dodge joins Google
Don Dodge was one of the high profile individuals who was fired by Microsoft during one of their routine lay-offs.
He has now become the latest Google employee with a long history at Microsoft!
Dodge spoke about his new home in a blog post:
Thanks Microsoft, I’m going to Google! Vic Gundotra at Google [...]

Google adds PDF viewer option in search results
Google Operating System blog has reported that Google is now providing the option of viewing PDF files inside the web browser without any third party add-on directly from the search result pages.
This feature works similar to how you can view PDF Files from your Gmail Inbox.
Google [...]

Google blocked once again in China
US based search engine giant Google has said that they are now investigating the reports that China has blocked access to several of their services in the country.
Google said in a statement: “We understand that many users could not access Google.com in mainland China, along with linked services, such [...]

Google believes Voice Search is pretty important to business
US based search engine giant Google has said that they believe voice search is crucial to their business operations.
The company believes that voice search would become a priority when it comes to the mobile web.
Google vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra had this to say: [...]

Gmail traffic in US now matches that of YouTube
If you need any proof on the growing popularity of Gmail, here it is.
Hitwise has reported that the US based internet hits on Gmail are now matching YouTube.
Gmail recently overtook YouTube to become the 10th most visited website in the US market.
Gmail and YouTube [...]

Google Gmail now has themes (beh!)
After Google Personalized Homepage, Google has now added themes to Google Gmail webmail service.
Users would get a new section in the Gmail settings page named Themes.
They can then implement the themes to their mailboxes online.
Google is for now providing around 30 themes for users to choose from.
The company [...]

Google Profiles now has a contact form!
Google continues to enhance the Google Profile section.
The search engine giant has now added a contact form option on the user profile pages.
The visitor on these profile pages can now send an email directly to the user.
The form does not reveal the email id of the [...]

Yahoo testing their new homepage
Internet media giant Yahoo has started testing a new layout of their Yahoo.com portal.
Yahoo.com continues to remain one of the most visited websites on the internet.
The new user interface features more customization along with better connectivity to their other services.
The new Yahoo.com comes loaded with a dashboard on the left [...]

LimitNone challenges Google over their Google Email Uploader tool
Search engine giant Google faces yet another lawsuit from a little company named LimitNone which is claiming that they stole the idea of their application for their Google Email Uploader tool.
The complaint has been filed in the Illinois circuit court. LimitNone claims that Google first promoted their [...]

Salesforce.com integrates Google applications with its products
Salesforce.com has announced that they are now adding support for Google technologies into their products.
The business software service provider has now started integrating its products with Google services like Gmail.
Other Google applications being integrated are word processor, spreadsheet and presentation.
The integrated solution would be available to their customers starting [...]