Google apparently has 60 different privacy policy’s for all of its products, yikes.
Well thats gonna change pretty soon, as Google is majorly changing its privacy policy along with its terms of conditions.
Which is good right? Yes 
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The new policy is much more clear and simple, and without much of the legal mumbo jumbo.
Glad Google is starting to care more about its privacy of its users…wish Facebook would!
Watch the video below for a explanation of the changes:
Besides being the most popular search engine, if not the greatest and most exhaustive, on the internet, Google is also always adding fun tricks to keep their users happy. All the banner art is the first thing that comes to mind: on every holiday, and they often make up holidays, Google artistically changes their search banner to match. (During the SOPA blackout, for example, Google pasted a black rectangle over their familiar logo in protest.)
Other neat features are the customizable email skins and themes you can apply to your Gmail account to give it more personality, and Google Instant which predicts what you are searching for as you type it to save you time.
With a new year comes a renewed sense of hope. This extends to all aspects of our lives. For tech geeks, that certainly means the latest round of gadgets. We’ll get a preview of what to expect in the first half of 2012 shortly, as the Consumer Electronics Show convenes next week. Then, in February, we’ll have Mobile World Congress. Between the two events we’re sure to see plenty of new smartphones introduced. Here are a few big developments I’m looking forward to in 2012.
» Read more: Looking forward to 3 smartphone developments in 2012
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Well it seems like the brand new Facebook competitor is a new smashing hit.
Google Plus today has passed 10 million users in what seems to be in less than a week.
So much so that Google has had to limit the amount of people joining because of how much people are flooding in.
It is unknown why yet why so many people are leaving Facebook to Google Plus in this “mass migration” but some say it’s because of better privacy, better trust, and just overall more features.
We shall see in the upcoming weeks if Google plus continues to thrive and explode.
Looks like Google is taking the environment seriously.
Not only does Google have clean datacenters, apparently so does their car fleet.
» Read more: Google Claims Largest Electric/Hybrid Car Fleet
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Looks like Google has seen the light.
Google was planning to completely shut down Google Video and delete all the videos with it.
But looks like plans have changed, due to the huge mob of internet users who don’t want their videos deleted Google isn’t.
At least directly. Google video is still shutting down but all the videos will be slowly moved over to YouTube.
I’ve only used Google Videos once or twice, so I won’t be missing anything but, still a good move by Google.
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Chrome 10 stable has been released.
Beyond the new GPU acceleration, faster performance, and other features is an overhauled settings menu.
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Yikes. This is a quite shocking news.
Over the weekend Google confirmed that up too 56 applications where malware in the Android market.
The worst part is, is that up to 260,000 Android devices may have been infected.
If you have been infected Google says;
We are pushing an Android Market security update to all affected devices that undoes the exploits to prevent the attacker(s) from accessing any more information from affected devices. If your device has been affected, you will receive an email from android-market-support@google.com over the next 72 hours. You will also receive a notification on your device that “Android Market Security Tool March 2011” has been installed. You may also receive notification(s) on your device that an application has been removed. You are not required to take any action from there; the update will automatically undo the exploit. Within 24 hours of the exploit being undone, you will receive a second email.
This affects android devices with software version 2.2.1 and lower (including my phone, eep!). Google says a patch is being released for earlier versions…but its up to carriers to send the update to devices.
The infected apps would install into your phone, and gain root access. Google says no personal information was submitted but could have been.
Google also says that they are trying to harden security in the android market, and fix these issues.
Read more of the malware out break at the google blog.
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That didn’t take long, Google today announced One Pass.
One Pass is Googles solution for sites who want to charge for people too see there content (WSJ, NYT, etc)…and for readers.
Here is how it works. You with your Google account sign up for a site that charges monthly (or at all). Instead of needing 10-12 logics you only need your Google account. This dangerously simplifies the process. Again Google wants to be your one stop shop when it comes to the digital world.
Demo Video:
This probably won’t change much but I’m sure its direct competition to Apple adding a subscription feature to the app store.
It isn’t surprising that Google wants to help people…help them selves like the many other Google products. But it is surprising how fast Google came out with this.
Guess you know have a choice; pay at the site, pay via Apple, or pay via Google.
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Google has recently cracked down on content farms but apparently Google needs your help.
Google has relieved in a blog post that they have created a chrome extension called personal blocklist.
The aim of the extension is you search Google…and if you happen to hit a content farm you click block site and the feedback is sent to Google.
Google is said to be experimenting with this data to see if it should use it in its search result rankings.
This could be useful…as humans know more than robots and Google could use a little help. The extension is very easy to use and set up. Works perfectly.
We shall see what data Google collects from its users to see if it should use the data or not. Hopefully they do.
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