Monster-Sized Roundup of Recent Google Happenings (New & Updated Resources + Company News)
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)
Filed under: Data Files, Maps, News, Reports, Roundup, Video Recordings
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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