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New year, new imagery

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

We’re always trying to improve the imagery in Google Earth and Google Local, but our latest update is bigger than usual. Not only have we added extensive 6-inch imagery for many parts of the U.K., but we’ve updated the Google Local database to match the coverage we have in Google Earth, and (drum roll, please) … we’ve added two more zoom levels in Google Local’s Satellite mode! Now for many areas around the world you can see a lot more detail than you could before.Take a look at people standing at the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, or jump over the pond and see the Statue of Liberty in New York, and then maybe drop down to the southern hemisphere and check out the boats sailing past the Sydney Opera House.

Source: Official Google Blog

Bush Administration Versus Google

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Back in 1998 the Child Online Protection Act was passed here in the United States. This act was created to protect children from harmful sexual material on the Internet. This act would have required adults to use access codes, or other methods of registering before they could view pornographic material online. Those distributors who violated this law would face fines of up to $50,000. However, this law was blocked by lower courts and had since then never taken effect.

Late last year the Justice Department issued a subpoena to Google. This subpoena requested that Google hand over a broad range of material from its database, which included one million random web address, and all Google searches from any one week period related to pornographic material. The Bush administration claims that it needs this vast amount of information to determine how often pornographic material shows up in web searches, in the administrations attempt to revive the Child Online Protection Act.

Not willing to be pushed around Google has refused to comply with the administrations request, stating that the release of such information would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets. The U.S. government has indicated that other unspecified search engines have already agreed to release the requested information. In the end will Google be able to protect their user’s privacy, or will they also give in to the government’s request?

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Delete Button added in GMail :)

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , .

Delete button right on top
Delete button

Now there’s an easy-to-find delete button for those messages you really don’t want. For everything else, there’s Archive. (Archive removes a message from your Inbox, but it’s still in All Mail and you can always search for it.)  Learn more
 Now we have a delete button in GMail. So no more fishing around menus for deleting a mail :)  

 Now we have a delete button in GMail. So no more fishing around menus for deleting a mail :)

Official Google Blog: Open federation for Google Talk

Published on 6 years ago in Technology.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

There is a great news from Google. Google is starting a federated service for IMs. Many have tried to enable ppl messenging across different IMs but none has succeeded particularly so far. I hope this one succeeds :) . Read more on the link below.
Source : Official Google Blog: Open federation for Google Talk