Well it seems its been year(s) in the making. Google has finally launched Google drive.
Basically Google drive is a competitor of Dropbox and Skydrive.
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Google Launches Google Drive
April 25th, 2012Opendns vs Google DNS
March 29th, 2012Google announced a DNS service today. So what does that mean? Read on to find out.
Google committed to making its ads safer
March 14th, 2012Google has released a post today on how it plans to make its ads safer – and maintain that.
We have all had a time where we have seen an ad that has been suspicious. Or malicious.
Well Google is taking note. A video has also been released showing how Google is going to monitor its ad network.
Watch the video 
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Google Public DNS reaches 70 billion DNS queries a day
February 14th, 2012Google public DNS came to life in December of 2009 as a means to help the Internet. ISPs DNS servers can be slow, spammy, or unreliable.
Well it’s grown to significant proportions . Google today said Google public DNS handles 70 billion DNS queries a day.
Which is a lot if you think about it.
What is dns? Dns is like a phone book of sorts to the Internet. It converts a domain name like arstechnica to a series of numbers ***.***.***.*** so that your computer can understand them. We dont like #’s and computers don’t like letters.
I’m surprised that google dns is handling so much traffic. It’s just absurd how much dns traffic can be done in a day.
Want to use Google dns? Easy.
Change your dns servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. And restart your computer or router depending on where you set it. Nothing else has to be configured – just that easy.
Google updates Chrome stable to make it safer/faster
February 8th, 2012Google has once again updated the stable channel for chrome users.
google chrome (Photo credit: toprankonlinemarketing)
The changes are when you type a url chrome will try to autoload what it thinks you will view (say google.com).
But the biggest change is how google handles downloads now. It now screens .exe’s and .msi’s to see if there safe or not. So now Chrome acts like IE9 in the way it can block malicious downloads. Which is why I now recommend it over Firefox.
Chrome dev was also updated to have minor fixes. So was the stable/dev channels of chrome book.
Google chrome for Android was also released as a beta today. But only for Ice Cream Sandwich (v 4) users, which is 1% of the Android user base 
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Related articles
- First Look: Google Chrome Beta for Android (Motorola Xoom) (onlygizmos.com)
- Chrome for Android: It’s Not Enough, Google (conceivablytech.com)
- Google Chrome Is Safest Browser, Germany Says (news.dice.com)
- Google finally brings Chrome browser to Android (agbeat.com)
Google Streamlining its privacy policy by March, 1, 2012
January 24th, 2012Google 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 .
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:
The 3 Best Ways to Waste Time on Google
January 24th, 2012Besides 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.
Looking forward to 3 smartphone developments in 2012
January 12th, 2012With 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.
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Google + Now Has 10 Million Users
July 12th, 2011
Image via CrunchBase
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.
Google Claims Largest Electric/Hybrid Car Fleet
June 10th, 2011Looks like Google is taking the environment seriously.
Not only does Google have clean datacenters, apparently so does their car fleet.
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