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May 24, 2013

A Roundup of Recent News About Google (Privacy Policy, Google Plus, and New Search Features)

Filed by Gary Price on January 25, 2012

Each day we all come across news by and about Google. It might be a new search services, and updated policy, or new statistics.

UPDATE: Google+ Now Available to Teens
Note: At the time of posting, Google+ documentation still shows that the age limit is 18.

Here’s a roundup of several recent Google stories. We hope you find it useful.

Privacy Policy

Updating our privacy policies and terms of service (via Official Google Blog)

Google on the Defensive Over Privacy Changes (via National Journal)

Google Changes Privacy Practices, Consolidates User Data (via EPIC)

Here’s The Crucial Part Of Google’s New Privacy Policy That Has Advertisers Salivating (via Business Insider)

What Do Google’s Privacy Changes Mean for You? (via WSJ)

Google+

Google+ new name policy: Too little, too late (via The Next Web)

Google doubles Plus membership with brute-force signup process (via ars technica)

Services and Features

Emergency In Your Area? “Public Alerts” On Google Maps Shows Warning (by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land)

Google+ introduces new Q&A feature for crowdsourcing answers from friends (via Venture Beat)

Google kills more services (via Computetworld)

Google launches ‘Value of the Web’ to collect Internet research from around the world (via The Next Web)

Google Search, Punctuation Marks and Other Symbols (via Google Operating System)

Google Maps Now Highlighting Borders Of Cities, Postal Codes & More (by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land)

Data

A “Mortified” Google Apologizes To Mocality For Poaching Customers, Lying About Relationship (by Matt McGee, Marketingland)

Filed Under: Info Industry, Information Retrieval/Search, Internet, Legal, Online Research & Reference, Privacy and Security, Social Media, Web Search Databases Tagged With: Google, Google Plus

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.