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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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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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• Google using remote kill switch to swat Android malware apps (arstechnica.com)
• Google Responds To Android Malware, Will Fix Infected Devices And ‘Remote Kill’ Malicious Apps (techcrunch.com)

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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Google today in a blog post has stated that 1800-goog-411 is no more.

On November 12th, 2010 you will no longer be able to dial 1-800-goog-411.

While is it sad to see Google’s free 411 service go, no one has really known about it.

On the rare times that I have used Goog 411 I either got incomplete answers, or no locations for the service, etc. So the service was far from perfect.

Google says that it choose to kill off goog 411 since it has voice technology on its mobile devices so it no longer needs the service.