Critics have hit out at Google’s decision to merge personal data from Google accounts including YouTube, Gmail, search, Google+ and dozens of their other services. Forthcoming changes to privacy settings, set to take effect from 1 March, will see data shared across all these platforms. Users cannot opt out of the changes. Google claims that [...]

Video sharing site YouTube now receives more than 4 billion views every day and more than 60 hours of footage are uploaded every minute! The video giant revealed the astonishing figures in a blog post –the same place that they revealed, in mid-2007, that YouTube had hit 6 hours of footage uploaded every minute. That’s [...]

The Christmas rush for smart-phones has bolstered sales to record breaking highs with more than 1.2 billion apps downloaded in one week! Download figures for the Christmas week (December 25-31) smashed the month’s average of 750,000 per week and solidified smartphones, and their apps, as the hot commodity going into 2012. It is the first [...]

Internet users are desperately seeking an escape from the bleak times of the recession according to the 2011 ‘Zeitgeist’ chart by Google. The search-behemoth has released its annual list of the most searched for terms . Looking at it overall, the overarching theme seems to be avoiding the harsh reality of the recession. The lists, [...]

Sara Slack has been involved with online content for the past decade, making her first website when she was still at school. Her passion for quality literature and content led her from being a review blogger to the Managing Director of her own publishing company, aged twenty two. With a Masters dissertation regarding reader engagement [...]

Thirteen years ago yesterday Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation as Google inc. At that time it is likely you were using Yahoo to search the internet and were unaware of just how pervasive the internet would become. Just a year after incorporation, the verb ‘ google’ was commonly used in the English [...]

I have seen numerous reports recently of sites seeing their Google PageRank dropping significantly, then a few days later returning to where it was. This happened with Google’s own .com website – it dropped to PR9 for a week or so and then bounced back to PR10. Twitter dropped all the way down to PR0 [...]

Apparently Google+ has already gained over 10 million users since it’s launch at the beginning of the month. If accurate, the early signs for the long term success of Google+ are positive. However, one area that Google are still to explore with its social network is how businesses can utilise it and profit from it. [...]

Last week, Google launched its latest attack on the social networking world with Google+. It was first released to a select group of people who had been given invites. These people could then invite others and so on. However, every so often, even people with invites would be prevented from joining due to “insane demand”. [...]

If I asked you what are the opening times of the Nepalese Embassy in Beijing, how would you answer? Google it? If you were planning a route or were lost in the middle of nowhere how would you find your way? Google Maps? If you missed Beyonce’s epic performance at Glastonbury (or Queen’s of the [...]