Archive for May 15th, 2009

Google trademark grab defies mounting lawsuits (The Register)

Court costs no match for money machine? Despite facing multiple lawsuits over the sale of trademarked keywords on its web-dominating ad machine, Google has expanded the use of trademarks by US advertisers.…

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Google: People will get used to Street View (ZDNet UK)

Google's privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has told ZDNet UK that people "will get used" to Street View. Last month, villagers in the Buckinghamshire town of Broughton surrounded a Street View car...

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Google stargazing with Sky Map app (Revolution)

LONDON - Google has released a star mapping tool for Android users, where by simply pointing their mobile phones at the night sky, Google Sky Map gives a detailed map, explaining what stars, planets and constellations the user is looking at.

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Google crash hits millions of internet users (Daily Mail)

The Google search engine - as well as thousands of websites which rely on Google to power their searches and advertising - went down after Google re-routed it's 'traffic'.

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Google users hit by ‘traffic jam’ glitch (Belfast Telegraph)

Google suffered a temporary fault yesterday which left internet users without access to the web search engine.

Friday, May 15th, 2009