Now you can learn about 42 important historical events from the last century on your home computer through the Google Cultural Institute.
Google Brings History to Life With Online Exhibitions
Report: Vast Majority Of Top U.S. Schools Use Google Apps
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Google is going green at a data center in Oklahoma.
Why Google’s homepage antics are more serious than they appear
Not that long ago, Google was known for its unwavering commitment to one shining principle: namely, that its homepage would always remain a pristine expanse of white, broken only by a simple search box and a kooky or amusing graphic.Analytics firm StatCounter is offering a stunningly entertaining tool to follow the distribution and popularity of web browsers globally.
Browser Wars: Chrome's Success On A World Map
Google+ Now Lets You Merge Your Personal, Work Profiles
Google announced on Thursday that Google+ users with a profile attached to a regular Gmail account and a work-related Google apps account can now blend the two together.
Google is a web company, and it rakes in most of its money from online ad sales, but it has another identity that few people understand: It’s also a massive hardware maker.
Google: We're One of the World's Largest Hardware Makers | Wired Enterprise
Andrew Norman Wilson got a lot of attention last year for his Workers Leaving the Googleplex video, which depicted a little-known group of contractors at Google’s HQ, charged with doing the scanning that feeds Google’s mission to digitize every book that it possibly can. While Wilson lost his own contractor job in video production at Google as a result of the film, that hasn’t stopped his fascination with Google’s ‘ScanOps’, a supposedly marginalized group of workers who don’t get the same perks that many other workers in the Googleplex receive (although to be fair, they are contractors). The latest manifestation of Wilson’s interest is ScanOps , a collection of images from the Google Books collection, many of which accidentally show the hands of the workers who scanned them (such as this example ), manipulated in various ways to create works of art.
Google Books Scanning Errors Turned into Art
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Angry rants about the demise of corporate culture aren't reserved only for ex-Goldman Sachs employees . Microsoft-turned-Google engineer James Whittaker -- now once again a Microsoft employee -- fired off a scathing blast Tuesday on a Microsoft blog about why he left Google. "My last three months working for Google was a whirlwind of desperation," wrote Whittaker, who headed an engineering team for social network Google+.
Ex-Google employee says Google+ has ruined the company - Mar. 14
YouTube Launches Non-Profit Simulator
YouTube has announced a new way to help non-profits better tell their stories on the video platform.Google+ updated the Circles interface to make it easier to find people. The snazzy HTML5 circle controls now shrink down for smaller screens. The page now has a new left sidebar like the circles menu on the main Google+ page but with a few more options for managing circles.
Circles Are Becoming A Competitive Advantage for Google+
Yesterday Google announced it would be “simplifying” its privacy policy so that all separate Google product accounts would be tied together for a single signup system. As expected, privacy advocates are outraged by the change and Google’s failure to allow users to opt-out. To Google’s credit, there are some issues here that needed to be fixed–but in the process, it could sacrificing user trust and search accuracy.
Does the great Google unification create more problems than it solves?
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