Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has courted controversy in the past by saying eerie things about the amount of personal information Google knows about its users. Schmidt recently said – ‘If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” Schmidt also stated that young […]
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Google Search Engine Serves One Billion People Per Week
Google’s search engine has had a big year. Even with the rise in competition for people’s attention from Bing search and the Facebook social network, Google search has managed to reach a point where they are serving search results to over one billion people per week. That figure is almost one sixth of the world’s […]
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Faster Google Search Results
Today Google launched a change to its search engine called “Google Instant” that will give users faster results. Google Instant shows search engine results that change as letters are typed into the search box. The new search feature will be implemented in the US and parts of Europe this week. A video presentation of Google […]
Google CEO Warns People Will Need To Change Identity To Hide From Internet History
Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that young people will need to change their names to avoid their internet past. Schmidt claims that the personal lives of young people are so thoroughly documented on social networks like Twitter and Facebook that it will be necessary for them to change their names to hide from their online […]
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Google Considers Using Facial Recognition Software
Here is some Google news that is sure to make the privacy advocates bolt their doors and lower their blinds. The top brass at Google is discussing the possible use of facial recognition technology. Google currently uses facial recognition tools on their Picasa picture sharing site. The tool allows users to name people in their […]
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