By Jane Gracielo, on April 29th, 2013% 
Google plans to shut down in June the Meebo Bar for receiving and sharing personalized content from websites in favor of Google+ tools for interaction between websites and users.
Google is planning to stop the further developments of the Meebo Bar to focus more in enhancing the Google+ tools.
Google acquired the company that made Meebo in June 2012. Aside from the Meebo toolbar that it has, they also incorporated it with advertisements, and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Meebo also has their own IM application in desktop and smartphones.
. . . → Read More: Google Stops Operation for Meebo Bar to Focus on Google+
By Jane Gracielo, on May 1st, 2012% 
Once again, Google is facing another lawsuit because of the Auto-complete feature.
Many French anti-discrimination agencies filed a lawsuit against the popular search engine for apparently proclaiming unpermitted and systematic associations involving celebrities along with their “Jewishness” by Google’s auto-complete feature, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
SOS Racisme, a French anti-racist NGO, as well as several anti-racism organizations are scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday for a lawsuit which claims that Google is “overseeing the creation of what is probably the biggest Jewish file in history” with auto-complete suggestion feature that connect well-known individuals, for instance Rupert . . . → Read More: Google Once Again Sued for Auto-complete Feature
By Jane Gracielo, on August 22nd, 2011% 
The social network of internet giant Google, Google+, is so yet to become a mainstream platform, according to social media traffic analysis firm SocMetrics.
During its research, SocMetrics concentrated on the mothers who, it believes, are key influencers for the expansion of a social network. The traffic analysis firm believes the mothers have not taken up the latest social network Google+ in a big way.
Google+ was headed into the mainstream, according to the report of Experian Hitwise, which studied 10 million online users.
While Hitwise studied the actual traffic on the . . . → Read More: Research Says Google+ Isn’t Mainstream Yet
By Jane Gracielo, on August 19th, 2011% 
Google is giving current weather information and cloud data from around the world on its Google Maps application, by a preparation with The Weather Channel’s weather.com and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The latest “weather layer” could be made active through a widget in the upper right corner of Google Maps. Clicking on the weather icon for a particular city opens a window with information like current humidity and wind condition, also a forecast for the following four days, according to Jonah Jones, a Google user expert designer.
Users could as well change on . . . → Read More: Weather Forecast, Now Offered By Google on Maps
By Jharma Mulchandani, on August 18th, 2011% 
Google had recently recommended purchasing Motorola Mobility at the cost of $12.5 billion, at the price of $40 each share. As stocks of Motorola closed at $24.47 when the agreement was made public, the costs have increased since then and have traded over $38 most of the time. While most of the 63% premium agreed upon by Google a little too steep, John W. Keating, a Motorola Mobility shareholder, does not seem to repeat the same sentiment. He feels that the Mountain View based firm is purchasing Motorola Mobility for “pennies on the dollar.”
John W. . . . → Read More: Motorola Shareholder Files Case against Google
By Jane Gracielo, on July 3rd, 2011% 
Google+ is powerful enough to guzzle Twitter and beat Facebook to pulp, according to Tom Anderson, MySpace founder.
Anderson wrote in a Google+ thread, “Google+ really seems to be primed to make good on that original premise — that everything gets better when it’s social. And unlike [Facebook], Twitter, or anyone else, Google already has the most advanced set of products. And if I can clearly see where this is headed, then I think what we are getting is a much better Google.”
Google will be the right company to completely recognize his dream after . . . → Read More: MySpace Founder Says Google+ Will Beat Facebook
By Jan Paul Ronaldo Manching, on June 28th, 2011% 
Google says the US government inquires Google for user data more than twice as frequently as any other and is more probable to obtain its own means.
The US completed 4,601 requests, next by Brazil with 1,804 and India with 1,699 over the second half of previous year. The figures relate to the entire Google services, counting YouTube videos, Gmail, Blogger blog posts and search results.
Google says in its transparency statement that it fulfilled with US demands in 94% of cases, compared with 90% of Japan, 88% of Singapore and 81% of Australia.
Matt Braithwaite of the company says, “Our . . . → Read More: User Data, Released to the US Government by Google
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