About Google... About Google... Google Cultural Institute goes live with 42 new interactive exhibitions showcasing major events and figures of the past century. 42 major events are included, from Nelson Mandela's book collection to holocaust love storiesSearch giant Google teams up with 17 major institutions to create the exhibitionsResources include video, photos and primary source material By Damien Gayle Published: 14:26 GMT, 10 October 2012 | Updated: 17:42 GMT, 10 October 2012 Google have teamed up with the world's museums for a massive update to their online 'cultural institute' that offers users the chance to learn about some of the major figures and events of the past century.
The latest additions to the Google Cultural Institute archives, available to view from today, are intended as an online educational resource to preserve history in a place that is accessible to people when they need it. Major world events like D-Day, the Holocaust and the fight against Apartheid are described with a mixture of photos, historical account and contemporary quotes. Scroll down for video. Indexing the world: Google receives software that means it can intelligently identify any object on the planet. Google will be able to scan any video or image and pick out objectsSearch engine will be able to index all the un-tagged data on the internetCivil liberties group warns of privacy concerns as Google gets smarter and smarter By Eddie Wrenn Published: 14:42 GMT, 30 August 2012 | Updated: 08:21 GMT, 31 August 2012 Google has received a patent for a technology that could revolutionise searching - as well as giving the search engine unprecedented knowledge about the world.
Google Starts Showing Users Alerts For Accounts Hacked By "State-Sponsored Attackers" Google Maps is going 3-D: Incredible new feature will let users zoom around like they're in 'their own personal helicopter' 'Your own personal helicopter': New version of Maps will let you dive round exact 3D replicas of citiesHi-tech 'Google Planes' amass enough data to recreate buildings, bridges... even treesRe-vamp comes just as Apple 'plans to ditch Google Maps on the iPhone and iPad' By Eddie Wrenn Published: 20:07 GMT, 6 June 2012 | Updated: 16:18 GMT, 7 June 2012 Google has announced a complete overhaul to the imagery on Google Maps.
The search giant has sent a convoy of planes over major cities in the world, each plane capturing advanced 3D information and detailed photographs. The result will be a complete 3D experience of major cities across the world, allowing users to swoop and fly through replicas which are exact - with even trees getting the 3D treatment. Google and Bing allow you to navigate within shopping centres and train stations. Google Maps offers rotating 3D views of 40 indoor venues around LondonBing Maps provides maps for nearly all shopping centres within the UK By Eddie Wrenn.
How Google is becoming an extension of your mind. SAN FRANCISCO -- It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you.
Search remains critical to the company's financial and technological future, but Google also is using the search business' cash to transform itself into something much broader than just a place to point your browser when asking for directions on the Internet. What it's now becoming is an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before you even realize you need it. Think of Google diagnosing your daughter's illness early based on where she's been, how alert she is, and her skin's temperature, then driving your car to school to bring her home while you're at work.
How Google Buzz Validates but Marginalizes FriendFeed. When FriendFeed debuted on the scene in late 2007, it was one of the simplest ways to aggregate all of my updates from the social outposts I have all over the Web, see friends' updates and have a discussion around their shared items.
Now part of Facebook, the product continues to have an extremely loyal, albeit relatively small, community, who embraced the technology and made it a platform for social interaction. The site, which was among the pioneers of real-time streams and the surfacing of popular items, has seen its technology mimicked and imitated by many, but its complexity helped to reduce its total impact, contrasted with single-purpose sites like Twitter. Today's Buzz announcement from Google brings many of the things that made FriendFeed great to a new, more mainstream, audience. At the beginning of 2009, I wrote a provocative list of things I hoped FriendFeed could do to grow and keep new users.
Google Doodle lets you take part in the Olympics at home (...or in the office) By Eddie Wrenn Published: 10:49 GMT, 7 August 2012 | Updated: 13:39 GMT, 7 August 2012 Bosses beware: Google has released a 'Google Doodle' which lets you attempt to set a world-record on the hurdles.
The addictive mini-game, which offers 1980s-style nostalgia for video game fans, gets you frantically hitting the arrow keys on your keyboard in order to pick up speed, and then timing your jumps across the hurdles with a tap on the space bar. It is the latest in a long line of Olympic-themed doodles, but the first game - and it is likely to lead to thousands of lost office-hours as workers compete for a personal best. On your marks, get get, search!
You can still search, if you can get over the hurdles: The keyboard replaces your legs as you race to the finish Google is well-known for making work a lot of fun - employees famously are given 20 per cent of office time to explore their own pet projects, and out of that, staple Google services such as GMail and Google News were born. Winner!