Tag Archives: Google

“Thank you for cleaning up the Viagra commercials Fox, but PLEASE what’s with the new tolerance for homosexuals campaign disguised as anti-bullying? Bullying is wrong. It is wrong for any reason. Apparently, American Idol with the help of Woody from Disney’s Toy Story, thinks that my 4th grader needs to be fully aware of the plight of teens who view …

For those unaware, Google/Blogger experienced a global outage for the last (approximately) 24 hours, taking down tens of millions of sites and doubtlessly losing them zillions in ad revenue. For now, things appear to be working. You’ll notice, however, that all of my 25 or so posts from yesterday have vanished. We’ll see if they reappear. Thanks for hanging in …

Hello, is this thing on?

“Children all over the world, including my two children are fans of Toy Story and to see a character like that [Woody] endorsing something that at this point children have no need to know about, it’s disappointing. For organizations like Exodus International, which has thousands of men and women like me who have lived a gay life, it obviously didn’t …

Major whopping props to Google for airing this amazing ad during tonight’s episode of Glee. Somebody hand me a tissue.

If you’re down for an hourlong interview with Lady Gaga, here it is as hosted by Google.

Google has busted Microsoft’s Bing for stealing search engine results. Google first suspected foul play in May 2010. By October 2010, with Bing results beginning to look uncannily like Google’s, it knew something had to be done about it — and so, in true, nerdtastic style, Google set up a sting to prove that Microsoft was actually behind the wholesale …

Google has launched Art Project, an interactive site allowing users to wander around the world’s great museums and zoom in on masterpieces with great detail. Pretty damn cool. And talk about an internet time suck!

Google has created a work-around for Egyptians cut off from the internet. Via the company’s official blog: Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet …

Double rainbows, Jimmy McMillan, Antoine Dodson, Alexander McQueen, Haiti, BP, Pakistan, vuvuzelas, and more.

Smartphone market shares stand at about a three-way tie, with third-place Android predicted by some to take first place in the next few months. Lots of wonky demographics at the link.

Here’s what Google thinks the next words should be when you enter the name of a state. Hawaii, FTW. (Via – Gothamist)

Google has agreed to pay $1.8B for its massive Manhattan office building, which looms over Chelsea and covers an entire city block. Real estate watchers say the move signals a rebounding in New York’s long-slumping office space market. “This decision is further evidence that large-scale buildings are trading once again,” said Ross Moskowitz, a real estate lawyer at Stroock & …

Well, the teabaggers have found their latest false controversy as they are tearing up Twitter with claims that Google’s Veteran’s Day logo is a not-so-secret tribute to Islam taking over America. Cuz see that red crescent moon under the American flag which is obviously being nuked? DON’T YOU SEE IT?

Brooklyn detectives were able to identify some local heroin dealers thanks to images captured on Google Street View, where multiple photos showed the group working the corner. Also, do dealers really still use that hanging shoes bit?

Nice promo, but it also gives me a chance to bitch that all three times I’ve tried to use in-flight WiFi have been a failure. Two of the times the signal died forever within thirty minutes of my payment going through. The third time I was able to stay online, but the connection was maddeningly slow and useless for blogging.

When you begin a Google search with the question “Why are [Christians, Jews, Muslims] so” – you get the above suggestions. The same query regarding Buddhists yields only “happy.” UPDATE: It’s not listed in the above-linked story, but I’ve done the same query on atheists.

Copyranter tips us to this “idiotic” Google campaign from Turkey. I don’t know, it made me smile.