Google News & Updates

[Sushubh]

Google announces new privacy policy for its users
Search engine giant Google has revealed that they are implementing new privacy measures. The aim is to make it complicated to associate online searches and the web users who made them.

 

[amish]

what was the word earlier (which got replaced by word Privacy?)I dont know why they cudnt add one more word instead of replacing some word.may be 1 more link wud add billions of bytes overall per day!

 

[Sushubh]

Google!

 

[amish]

what is that weight thing (28) they are talking abt?

 

[Sushubh]

i guess google's homepage is 28KB?

i save a copy. came to around 15.3 KB (15,725 bytes)...

Found it...

Google and the 28-word homepage

Official Google Blog: What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28...

 

[amish]

now thats too much, giving so much importance to word count.

 

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[amish]

Yep it was funny.

 

[aviral sangal]

Google's New login page....just look out for preview new login page link at the bottom

 

[Sushubh]

righto. using it for a couple of days now. forgot to post about it... Google's Experimental Sign-in Pages

 

[amish]

Dont see much change except bigger boxes.

 

[Sushubh]

haha. what change can you expect in the signup form 🙂 it is just redesigned as per their new UI theme. 🙂

 

[Sushubh]

Aardvark: shutting down
Google Desktop: shutting down
Google Fast Flip: would survive in a different form
Google Maps API for Flash: deprecated
Google Pack: Shutting down
Google Web Security: No new customers. Old customers would continue to get support
Google Image Labeler: shutting down
Google Notebook: shutting down. Data would be migrated to Google Docs
Google Sidewiki: Shutting down
Google Subscribed Links: shutting down

 

[aviral sangal]

Did anyone checkout new look to google docs 🙂

 

[Sushubh]

Source

 

[Sushubh]

Looks like Google is having one of its unusual downtimes.