Just in time for Halloween. Here’s a monster-sized roundup of some recent Google news, product updates, upcoming releases, and more.
Services and Tools
- Google+ Adds Popular Stories, Post Analytics, Photo Filter Kits & Begins Supporting Google Apps by (Greg Finn, Search Engine Land)
- “Google Tweaks Advanced Search: Change Irks Some” (via PC World)
- Google Removes The + Search Command (by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land)
- “Google Maps rolls out business interiors in Street View” (via Venture Beat)
- “Google Revamps New-Tab Page in Chrome Web Browser” (via PC World)
- “A fresh start for Google presentations” (via Official Google Blog)
- Google+ To Allow Pseudonyms & Will Support Google Apps Accounts (by Greg Finn, Search Engine Land)
- “View your Google search results Flipboard style, thanks to heystaks” (via The Next Web)
- “Google Translate For Android Literally Speaks More Languages, Through Conversation Mode” (by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land)
- “Google Updates the Dictionary OneBox” (via Google Operating System)
Business and Other Issues
- “Google Puts A Price On Privacy” (by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land)
- “YouTube Close to Announcing Video ‘Channels'” (via WSJ)
- Coming Soon? “Google Builds Music-Download Store” (via WSJ)
- “Click Click: The Signs of the Google Reader Protest” (via DCist)
- Google plans big changes for Reader (via BBC News)
- Germany: “Google opens Internet research institute” (via Bloomberg)
- Updated: Google Transparency Report
- “Google Reports Surge in Government Requests for User Data” (via WSJ)
- “Brazil leads Google removal requests, US dominates user data inquiries” (via The Next Web)
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