Archive for the 'Google' Category

WHY YOUTUBE SUCKS?

The top 5 reason why YouTube sucks.

1. Youtube features and Youtube Team do not have any control over what videos are being uploaded. A video will be looked into and removed only if someone flags it, by the time its done the video would have several hundreds to thousands views.
2. As much as Video uploading [...]

Google anonymizes IP logs sooner

Google announced that they will start anonymizing IP logs earlier than previously. It used to be that they kept logs of everything you did, linked to your IP address, for 18 months. Now, they are reducing it to 9 months.
Their announcement post goes into the fact that they need the IP logs not only to [...]

New Google Chrome version

Google just announced that they released an updated version of Google Chrome. The update includes only bug fixes, and no new functionality. It fixes the security issues that were published last week, as well as other issues that were not public.

They seem to be very open about the features that are being fixed in the [...]

10 years of Google

Everyone knows about Google. As the most popular search engine, Google has transformed the way we view the web and how we do things online. Yet, 10 years ago, it was just an idea, a concept in the head of 2 guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D students at Stanford University, in California.

On [...]

Ad blocker for Google Chrome

With Google’s new browser now in use, many people have complained that one of its main issue is the lack of extensions. And one of the most popular extension that Firefox users have come to rely on is the use of AdBlock Plus, an ad blocker.
With a bit of hacking, however, it’s possible to have [...]

Google Chrome security flaws

It’s only been out in beta for 3 days, researchers around the world have been poking at it, trying to find some security flaws, and they found several. It seems the usual caution about using beta products is not just fine print, but a warning people should take notice of in the case of Google [...]

Compilation of Chrome news

Just two days after the release of Google Chrome, their new browser, everyone has been doing benchmarks, publishing charts, and doing news analysis. The bottom line is that everyone agrees it’s still an early product, but depending on who you ask, anything else is up in the air.
Yesterday, Read My Mind published this chart of [...]

Google Chrome review

Last week, leaks came out about a new Google browser called Google Chrome. Today, it went live. Anyone can download it and try it out. Here are some of the interesting features from the Google blog posts:

Brand new code base: This is one of the reasons that pushed Google to make this browser. By creating [...]