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Google Street View for Village Too Remote for Cars By IAN AUSTEN 9:00 PM ET A pitch from an Inuit man brought a tricycle fitted with Google’s camera system to the streets of Cambridge Bay, a village in Canada’s Far North, on Monday. Google recruiting data privacy 'ninjas' San Jose Mercury News After a series of recent privacy gaffes, Google (GOOG) is soliciting software experts to apply for a special team of "back-end ninjas" who are focused on spotting and resolving user privacy issues in the company's products. Google won't say if its ... See all stories on this topic » Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button gets Playful, Artistic CNET Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button gets Playful, Artistic. Google's specialists in branding and self-promotion have done it again on the search site's iconic home page. No, it's not a new "doodle;" this time it's a tweak to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. See all stories on this topic » Google Crunches One Trillion Pieces of Data With Single Click Wired News Yes, Google treats its latest data center technologies as the most important of trade secrets. But when these creations get a little older, the company is happy to at least describe them to the rest of the world. Sometimes. “We try to be as open as ... See all stories on this topic » Google team, local residents, map remote Nunavut hamlet CTV News It wasn't a typical day in the office for members of Google's Street View team as they roamed around a small Nunavut hamlet on Thursday in an effort to build the most comprehensive and accurate map of Canada's Arctic. But the Google team wasn't alone. See all stories on this topic » Google's Valuation Remains Attractive Seeking Alpha Over the past two and a half years shareholders of Google (GOOG) have not seen the same growth on their shares as they have observed in the financial statements. The volatility over that period has been tremendous, and if you were holding on during ... See all stories on this topic » Google Fiber project spawns “hacker homes” in Kansas City San Jose Mercury News Count me among those who are extremely excited to see how the Google Fiber project develops in Kansas City. It's where I grew up, after all. And when I visited earlier this summer, there was a real sense that Google Fiber could be transformative for ... See all stories on this topic » Bitter Apple? An update on Google's iOS Voice Search saga Computerworld (blog) A representative from Google confirmed to me that the company submitted the Voice Search app to Apple about a week before the August 8 announcement -- so around August 1, give or take -- and has yet to hear anything back about the app's status or lack ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog) Google adds more social integration for Chrome iOS app CNET Google introduced Chrome apps for both Android and iOS last June at Google I/O in San Francisco. To download the apps, read CNET's full reviews of the iOS and Android versions. Topics: Apps,: iOS,: iOS software; Tags: app,: Google Plus,: Google+,: iOS, ... See all stories on this topic » Google Wallet person to person payments and more could be coming soon Android Community Earlier today Google hosted a little Google Wallet Q & A with their head product manager Robin Dua. This quick session was mainly for developers but we learned a few interesting facts about the future of Google Wallet. For one, they mentioned person to ... See all stories on this topic » Google Goggles update brings support for devices without autofocus Engadget Google Goggles update brings support for smartphones without autofocus If you thought Google's perspicacious searching application was clever before, prepare for a shock. Google Goggles version 1.9 adds support for devices without autofocusing optics, ... See all stories on this topic »

In Google's Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women New York Times The company hopes its famous algorithms can solve one of the most vexing problems facing Silicon Valley: how to recruit and retain more women. Google has generally been considered a place where women have thrived, but it wants to figure out how to ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Changing SEO Strategies Post-Google Penguin Huffington Post The Google Penguin algorithm update is the latest spam-fighting wave to crash against the shore of search and it has heralded something of a new dawn for SEO, especially in terms of offsite strategy. In 2011, Google ran an algorithm update, known as ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Adds Octane To Measure Browser Speed InformationWeek Google has long been concerned about the speed of Web applications because slow online interactions drive users away. The company talks about speed constantly and regularly introduces software such as its Page Speed browser extension, which helps ... See all stories on this topic »

Hey Google, share that Nexus love beyond Samsung CNET Samsung has been the primary beneficiary of Google's Nexus flagship device program for the past few years, having built the first phone with Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, in the Nexus S -- and the first phone with Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich ... See all stories on this topic »

Consumer Watchdog Challenges Google-FTC Privacy Settlement PCWorld The group, which blasted the settlement when it was announced two weeks ago, has now filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, which is tasked with approving or rejecting the proposed deal. See all stories on this topic »

Google Heads to Canada's Arctic to Map Remote Community Bloomberg Members of the hamlet will participate in a “map up” in which they will use Google software to identify landmarks, said Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Google lead for the project. Company staff will then tour the community on a specially-designed tricycle ... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo Beats Google, Microsoft in Alumni Becoming CEOs: Report Bloomberg (blog) For a company that has struggled to keep a chief executive officer in place, Yahoo! has spawned more than its share of technology leaders from its ranks who have gone on to run other companies. More of today's leading technology CEOs previously worked ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to Merge Postini Email Security Services Into Google Apps eWeek "With this transition to Google Apps, you can receive similar email security, protection and archiving, but through the more robust Google Apps service," the post stated. "Google Apps also works with mail servers, such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus ... See all stories on this topic »

German Bill Seeks Licensing Fee from Google, Other Search Engines PCWorld "Nobody sees a real reason why this should be implemented," Kay Oberbeck, Google's North Europe communications chief, told GigaOM. "It's really harmful, not just for users who wouldn't find as much information as they find now, but such a law is also ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Patents Search Tool: The Lunatics are Running the Asylum Business 2 Community Have you ever read a news story that makes you go, “Huh?” Such was the case last week when I read a seemingly innocuous story in TechCrunch about Google adding new “prior art” query functionality to its Google Patents search tool. On the same day ... See all stories on this topic »

Google rolls out Google Play gift cards ZDNet Last week, Android Police managed to reverse engineer an update issued by Google for the Google Play store, revealing code and resources that pointed to Google releasing gift cards. Earlier today, Google made the announcement on Google Play's ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple, Google - please spend on R&D not IP San Francisco Chronicle Throw in the $40 billion plus that Google has socked away, and the technology giants of our time are sitting atop a mountain of cash that would make even a Saudi prince blush. The problem is that neither company seems to have any idea what to do with ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Chinese Website Qihoo Pushes Google Aside Wall Street Journal Qihoo's move underscores the uphill battle Google faces to penetrate a market dominated by domestic rivals, including Baidu Inc., which holds 78.6% of the search market in the second quarter, according to industry research firm Analysys International. See all stories on this topic »

Google Finally Leads in China -- in App Ad Sales Bloomberg Google's strength in mobile ads stands in contrast to its search-engine business in China. The global leader has failed to catch homegrown favorite Baidu Inc. (BIDU) in computer-based search, and two years ago Google moved its search servers out of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Cooks up API to Streamline Enterprise License Management PCWorld (blog) The API (application programming interface), called Enterprise License Manager, is aimed at IT administrators with hundreds or thousands of end user licenses for the Drive online storage service and the Maps Coordinate application for managing field crews. See all stories on this topic »

Google's Motorola layoffs spark protests in China MarketWatch Motorola Mobility started the layoffs in China as part of its new owner Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) plan to chop 20% of the mobile-device maker's workforce globally. A company executive said that the cuts in China would affect all offices in the country. See all stories on this topic »

Internet Companies Google And Facebook Said They Are Working With Indian ... Chicago Tribune Content intended to incite violence, such as hate speech, is prohibited on Google products where we host content, including YouTube, Google+ and Blogger," Google said in a statement. It added that Google acts "quickly to remove such material flagged by ... See all stories on this topic »

Judge Says Google Still Isn't Being Forthright About Paid Bloggers DailyTech (blog) Oracle implied in filings before Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose/San Francisco) that Google might have similar paid "independent" analysts. Judge Alsup agreed, ordering both companies to ... See all stories on this topic »

Google adds Octane to its benchmark suite CNET (blog) Although speed is a major factor in browser choice, many people don't want to know why their favorite browser is fast -- they just care that it is. But the standards and tests used to determine how we measure a browser's speed can be varied, so Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to retire Postini, migrate features to Google Apps CNET The Web announced the transition today, saying that it has spent the last year building Postini's features into professional suite Google Apps for Business and Google Apps Vault, an e-mail archiving and discovery service. "With this transition to ... See all stories on this topic »

Chinese Site Drops Google as Default Search

Google faces intensifying challenges in China after Qihoo 360, a popular website and Internet browser company there, replaced the search service for its own technology.

India Targets Online Threats

Google and Facebook said they are working on requests from India to remove from their web sites "inflammatory and hateful content" that New Delhi blames for sparking a mass exodus of people from several cities.

Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system? CNET Google's public policy director says at an Aspen conference that "these patent wars are not helpful to consumers." Declan McCullagh. by Declan McCullagh. August 20, 2012 1:31 PM PDT Follow @declanm. Pablo Chavez, Google's public policy director, ... See all stories on this topic »

Google told to name paid advocates San Francisco Chronicle Google said in court filings Aug. 17 that it didn't pay people to write about the lawsuit, although nonprofit organizations, universities and trade groups receiving money from the owner of the world's largest search engine have commented on the case. See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Google Earth Partners to Offer View of Mars From NASA's Curiosity Rover eWeek To find the recent image that is in Google Earth, click the planet icon at the top of the screen (the one that looks like Saturn with its rings), then choose "Mars." Next, go down to the "Layers" menu at the bottom left of Google Earth. Once there ... See all stories on this topic »

San Francisco hedge-fund manager convicted of insider trading of Google, other ... San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK -- A San Francisco hedge fund founder was convicted of insider trading charges Monday by a jury that rejected his claims that he was careful never to trade based on secrets he received about public companies. Doug Whitman, whose hedge fund ... See all stories on this topic »

The Origins of the Investigation into Google Privacy Violations Wall Street Journal (blog) By Julia Angwin. For the past two months, a fight has been raging in the blogosphere about whether Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer can take credit for spurring the government investigation that led to Google paying a $22.5 million for privacy ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Analytics Could Be Banned In Norway TechCrunch The Norwegian Data Protection Bureau has declared that Google Analytics is not in accordance with the law. They justify themselves by referring to a 2008 European Directive that demonstrates once again the ignorance of Eurocrats — even though Norway ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

Google, Oracle, Spotify, Apple: Intellectual Property Businessweek Oracle said Google maintains a network of direct and indirect “influencers” to advance its intellectual property agenda, according to an Aug. 17 filing in federal court in San Francisco. Oracle has hired one writer, Florian Mueller, author of the FOSS ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's list of paid bloggers not sufficient, judge says Reuters U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave Google until noon on Friday, Aug. 24 to provide an amended list of public commentators on the high-profile case between Google and Oracle Corp who have received payments as consultants, contractors, vendors or ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Other Fragmentation Problem PC Magazine Last week, Security Watch wrote about how zvelo researcher Joshua Rubin managed to crack the Google Wallet PIN using the exact same, six-month-old vulnerability he first reported last February, even after Google completely revamped and re-released its ... See all stories on this topic »

Why is Google's autocomplete so... The Virginian-Pilot Blogger Renee DiResta of California typed that question into Google and filled in the blank with a state's name. Google's autocomplete function, which uses algorithms to complete the question based in part on the most frequent searches using those ... See all stories on this topic »

Google and Oracle Disclose Few Paid Relationships for Trial PC Magazine An August 7 order by judge William Alsup in the Google/Oracle Android-themed patent face-off has turned up few fish. In an effort to weed out "authors, journalists, commenters, or bloggers" whose financial relationship with either company might come ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple, Google Embroiled in Patent Lawsuit over Smartphones eWeek The ubiquitous purveyor of sleek, expensive technology goods is no stranger to litigation: Apple is entering into the final phase of its lawsuit with Samsung, locked in battle over technology patents, stolen ideas and unfair competitive practices. Now ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Nexus 7 tablet gets an all-in-one toolkit TG Daily Google's indigenously designed Nexus 7 tablet is all the rage for devs - much like Mountain View's Android OS which allows the community to code a never-ending stream of hacks, mods and tweaks. Recently, an XDA dev known as "mskip" created a digital ... See all stories on this topic »

Is Google Shopping deliberately censoring searches for natural health products? Examiner.com Is Google Shopping deliberately censoring searches for natural products or is it a glitch within their system? This disturbing question arose a few weeks ago and is now beginning to hit mainstream awareness; particularly disturbing is that this ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to acquire Frommer's travel guidebooks Business Recorder (blog) Google Inc is buying the Frommer's line of travel guidebooks, the latest move to amass a trove of publishing content that could strengthen the No 1 Internet search company's push to become a major online travel broker. The sale by John Wiley & Sons Inc ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Street View Images Track Rebuilding of New Orleans After Katrina eWeek It's the first time that Google has updated the Street View images of the city since 2008, when the photographs still communicated the tragic destruction that occurred all over the area due to Katrina's Category 3 winds. Landrieu was Louisiana's ... See all stories on this topic »

US viewers watched 36.9 billion online videos in July CNET Other data from ComScore's report show that people in the U.S. watched 9.6 billion video ads in July with Google (again) ranking first as top venue and Hulu coming in second. ComScore notes that 20 percent of all videos viewed online were video ads. See all stories on this topic »

What Google's New Stance on Copyright Infringement Means to Your Business Terra.com Google currently accounts for over 66 percent of all online searches in the U.S. With this kind of market prominence, business owners should keep an eye on the slew of recent changes that Google has made to its search algorithm, especially one that may ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Play Store Gift Cards Already Available and on Display at Some Target ... Droid Life Google Play gift cards, oh what an odd story you are. It's nice to know that you can already be purchased at stores though, because seeing gift cards as highlights of the Android world multiple times a day is beyond confusing. They are gift cards, people. See all stories on this topic » Droid Life

Google upgrades Android maps as Apple battle looms NorthJersey.com Google's once-close relationship with Apple has been fraying since it began giving away its Android software in 2008 to cellphone makers looking to challenge the iPhone. SAN FRANCISCO — Google's mapping service for mobile devices is getting an ...