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Obama Meets With Steve Jobs, Google VP

President talks tech, innovation in Cali

(Newser) - President Obama met with Apple's Steve Jobs in California yesterday, the New York Times ' notes. The two talked tech, innovation, and education, before the president took his leave to meet another tech titan: Marissa Mayer of Google. Mayer hosted the president and about 50 others at her home for...

Dead Sea Scrolls Going Online, With Google's Help

21st-century technology meeting 1st-century texts

(Newser) - Google is teaming up with Israel's Antiquities Authority to make one of the world's most tightly guarded archeological treasures available to anybody with an Internet connection. The Dead Sea Scrolls will be made available in their entirety online in a project expected to take several years, CNN reports. The IAA...

Lefties Plot GOP Google Bomb
 Lefties Plot GOP Google Bomb 
Oct 19, 2010 10:00 AM CDT

Lefties Plot GOP Google Bomb

Daily Kos seeks to send negative stories to top of rankings

(Newser) - Look out, GOP: You're about to get Google-bombed. Liberal activist and Daily Kos honcho Chris Bowers is targeting 98 Republican House candidates in a Google campaign ahead of November's elections. He's urging the blog's readers to find potentially damaging news stories about the candidates and help push them up Google's...

How Self-Driving Cars Could Change Everything
How Self-Driving Cars
Could Change Everything
OPINION roundup
Oct 13, 2010 12:03 PM CDT

How Self-Driving Cars Could Change Everything

For starters, a Netflix model on ownership

(Newser) - Google's big idea to put self-driving cars on the road someday could be a game-changer. Three quick opinions:
  • Netflix for autos? "Cars that don't need drivers also may not need private owners—since they could be summoned remotely and returned once their journey is complete," writes Doron Levin
...

Google Funding Wind Power 'Superhighway'

$5B project will clear the way for future wind farms

(Newser) - Google is kicking in a major portion of the funding for a massive wind power project off the mid-Atlantic coast. The search king is investing in a 350-mile underwater cable network that will serve as a backbone for future wind farms, the New York Times reports. Google and renewable energy...

Google Tests Self-Driving Cars
 Google Tests Self-Driving Cars 
Oct 10, 2010 1:05 PM CDT

Google Tests Self-Driving Cars

But mass production is at least 8 years out

(Newser) - Google, you can drive my car: In its continued quest for world domination, the search engine behemoth is now dabbling in a little thing it likes to call self-driving cars, reports the New York Times. The fleet of seven has safely logged some 140,000 miles—albeit with "drivers"...

Google Street View Comes to Brazil, Finds Bodies

Company has to take down several images

(Newser) - Google's Street View has come to Brazil, but only a week after its debut in South America, the tech giant has been hit with complaints of grisly images available on the service, the Telegraph reports. It seems the world at large is not quite ready for an unadulterated look at...

Google Says No More .JPG Files
 Google Wants to Kill the JPEG 
Oct 1, 2010 12:26 PM CDT

Google Wants to Kill the JPEG

WebP format shrinks file size by 40%

(Newser) - Google has unleashed what it hopes will be a JPEG killer: WebP. This new graphics file format reduces file size by 40%, which could mean quicker file transfers and a speedier Web, according to CNET —if Google can convince us to use it. That could be tricky, considering all...

Google Street View Comes to Antarctica

Service now reaches every continent

(Newser) - Near inaccessibility, cold weather, and a distinct lack of streets haven't kept Google Street View out of Antarctica. The service has mapped a small part of the continent, offering panoramic views of icebergs, rocky beaches, and plenty of penguins. The service also goes live in Ireland and Brazil today, extending...

Why the Press Loves Apple, Google
 Why the Press 
 Loves Apple, 
 Google 
OPINION
Sep 29, 2010 1:25 PM CDT

Why the Press Loves Apple, Google

Because they're the most interesting companies in tech, that's why

(Newser) - Pew Research recently unveiled a stunningly obvious study concluding that the tech company most written about—and fawned over—by the press was (drum roll, please) Apple. In second place? You guessed it, Google. About 26% of all tech articles are about those two juggernauts. But Farhad Manjoo of Slate...

Massive Meteor Crater Found by Google Earth

10-ton meteor hit only a few thousand years ago

(Newser) - An Italian mineralogist found a massive meteor crater in the Egyptian desert using only Google Earth, the Telegraph reports. The meteor is thought to have hit as recently as a few thousand years ago, and geologists say its impact site is one of the best preserved ever found. The previously...

Court Finds Google Defamed Sex Offender

Suggest function linked his name with 'rapist'

(Newser) - Apparently Google’s auto-suggest function—you know, the one that tries to guess what you might be searching for as you type—can commit defamation. The Superior Court of Paris has convicted Google of “public slandering of a private individual” after a convicted sex offender discovered that typing his...

Words Too Dirty for Google Instant

 Words Too Dirty 
 for Google Instant 


what's 'hedop'?
Sep 28, 2010 8:14 AM CDT

Words Too Dirty for Google Instant

If you're searching for Twinkies ... you're out of luck

(Newser) - Google Instant makes searching faster by automatically completing what you’re typing … unless it’s dirty, of course . The folks at 2600.com put together a comprehensive “Google blacklist” of words the search giant thinks are naughty, from the apparently innocuous (“servitude”) to the downright...

100K Germans Opt Out of Google Street View

Country may be a little blurry when service launches

(Newser) - Planning to use Google Street View in Germany? It may not be very useful: More than 100,000 Germans have requested their homes be blurred out when Street View launches in their country this year. That number could actually be in the several hundreds of thousands, sources tell Der Spiegel...

Snooping Google Engineer Could Face Jail Time

Engineer who spied on teen chat logs may have broken federal law

(Newser) - A Google engineer who abused his access to data to snoop on teenagers' chat logs and harass them could face up to 5 years in jail if government officials decide to prosecute him. David Barksdale's spying on Google Voice and Google Talk accounts definitely wasn't "in the normal course...

Creepy Google Engineer Stalked Teens Online

He was axed after accessing minors' accounts, spying on chats

(Newser) - An engineer has been fired after abusing his position at Google to spy on teenage chat transcripts and access their accounts. David Barksdale, 27, breached the privacy of at least four young teens of both sexes as a member of an elite tech group at the company, Gawker reports. He...

Author: Google Ruins Our Brains

Does 'good' software make us stupid?

(Newser) - Does smart software make us stupid? Absolutely, says author Nicholas Carr. In an interview with the BBC , Carr says we are getting a little too much help from technology—and it's changing our wiring for the worse. We are losing our capacity to store information and our ability to concentrate,...

Google Instant Ignores Naughty Searches

Autofill function switches off if you're looking for, say, sluts

(Newser) - The Google Instant function introduced this week offers search results as fast as you can type—so long as you're not searching for famed NFL linebacker Dick Butkus. The instant search functions switches off when one begins to type certain words, including "penis," "hardcore," "slutty,...

Google Instant Speeds Up Search
Google Instant
Speeds Up Search
Sep 8, 2010 3:44 PM CDT

Google Instant Speeds Up Search

New feature displays results as queries are typed in

(Newser) - Google unveiled its upgraded search function today called Google Instant , which refines searches as you type by predicting what you're looking for. More details at this "user's guide" from Search Engine Land , or see the video in the gallery for a demo. Early reaction:
  • Better, but not a world-changer:
...

Google's Bouncing Dots: Hinting at Search Changes?

Theories abound about the Doodle's message

(Newser) - The consensus on what explains the moving dots on Google's logo today seems to change by the hour. The company has shot down speculation that they're balloons celebrating the company's founding, telling Search Engine Land : "Today’s doodle is not related to a birthday but is fast, fun, and...

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