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Google Mobile adds search for iPhone and Android apps

Google Mobile adds search for iPhone and Android apps
Do you like this story? If you’re using Google Mobile to search for things on your smartphone, there’s a good chance you may be interested in two new special features. Google Mobile on the iPhone now has “iPhone Apps” under the “more” pull-down menu.
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Google Instant Arriving on Android Devices

Google Instant Arriving on Android Devices
Owners of select Android devices, including Droid, Droid X, and Incredible, are reporting the arrival of Google Instant (beta). Click to read the rest of this post…
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Google admits to accidentally collecting e-mails, URLs, passwords

Google admits to accidentally collecting e-mails, URLs, passwords
Google admitted in a blog post Friday that external regulators have discovered that e-mails, URLs and passwords were collected and stored in a technical mishap, while the vehicles for Google’s Street View service were out documenting roadway locations.
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Google ‘spied’ on British emails, computer passwords

Google ‘spied’ on British emails, computer passwords
London: In what could be called a major security breach, Internet search engine ‘Google’ has admitted to spying on computer passwords and entire emails from households across Britain.
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Google says its cars grabbed emails, passwords

Google says its cars grabbed emails, passwords
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 23 — Google Inc admitted for the first time its “Street View” cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed — including complete emails and passwords — potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries. The disclosure comes just days after …

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China’s own version of Google Earth

Google and China have been at odds since last year, when a serious hacking attack originating from China prompted Google to ultimately withdraw its search service from the mainland.

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Online music service in India by Google

Google Inc plans to launch an online music service in India that would enable users to search for legal music streams and downloads, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Italy vs. Google–from Street View to street theater?

Italy vs. Google–from Street View to street theater?
editor’s notebook Italian officials are demanding that Google give people in that country three-days warning before siccing the Street View cameras on them. You can cook up a lot of tableaux in three days.
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Google Increases Spending on Lobbying to $1.2 Million

Google Increases Spending on Lobbying to $1.2 Million
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Google increased its spending on lobbying 11 percent over the previous year to $1.2 million in the third quarter, demonstrating the Internet giant’s willingness to spend to shape federal policy, Consumer Watchdog said today. In the comparable quarter a year ago …

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Google Stop Indexing Blogger (Blogspot) Posts

Google Stop Indexing Blogger (Blogspot) Posts
For a couple days now, I have been spotting random threads with complaints from Blogger aka blogspot.com bloggers that Google has stopped indexing and ranking their new blog posts in Google web search. It turns out to be a large problem. A Google Webmaster Help thread has tons of bloggers …

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