The German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons* has put a pro anorexia blog hosted on Google’s Blogspot on the index of youth-harming media. Wikipedia explains that “Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder, characterized by extreme low body weight and body image distortion, with an obsessive fear of [...]

There is an particular google experiment which shows to a portion of the users. In this experiment, Google’s preferences page lets you add sites that you prefer to see in results. “Based on your search history, Google suggests some frequently-visited sites, but you can add any other site,” Ionut says.
The help page explains more: “The [...]

Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium.
The retrenchment announced Tuesday is part of a cost-cutting campaign aimed at boosting Google’s profits as the deepening recession eats away at Google’s bread-and-butter business of selling ads [...]

Spammers have found a way to try abuse the Google Code Hosting project. Originally, Code Hosting was and is meant as a platform to store and manage your open source projects. Including an issues tracker, a download section, and source access. Plus a descriptive frontpage which allows things like text, links, and pictures. Now look [...]

There has been an on going rumor about the “GDrive” product to be released. Being the most eagerly anticipated Google product ever, with rumors literally going back years, could new evidence suggest that we may finally get to see it launched this year?
Some users of the recently released Picasa for Mac beta software were surprised [...]

Google has recently came out with a brillient tool that helps you create a theme for the custom iGoogle homepage. It’s easier than doing a theme yourself in XML, as was possible before… however it looks like with the Theme Maker you can only upload a background photo and adjust the header text and [...]

Google has recently changed their favicon once again (the last change happened in May 2008). Above you can see the recent history of this icon showing in the address bar and elsewhere. The new design consists of four color areas – blue, red, green and yellow – overlaid by a lowercase white “g”.

“Lái ba” (来吧) means “come here” in Chinese and is the name of the Google-powered social site by Tianya. (The site is moderated and disallows certain political postings, according to reports from a forum member here previously.) When you want to add a comment at a Laiba page (without being logged in), you will see [...]

The new preview version of Google Chrome has a couple of brand new features that has really made Google chrome a great browser. Google announced some of the new features, including:
– form auto-completion
– CSS gradients, CSS canvas drawing, reflections and masks
– a full-page [...]

Sweet Onion Creations is a company dealing with 3D printing. In the video, they show you how they load a model located in Google Earth (and perhaps available in the Google 3D Warehouse) into Google SketchUp, check it for integrity, and then print it. They describe the printing as follows:
“The process starts with a very [...]