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Google Adds Suggestions To Search Queries
Google has been busy cooking up some new stuff in its labs of late. It is currently rolling out a new suggestion feature that will automatically suggest search queries as you begin to type in the search box. read more
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"Anyone who wants should just go up to the homes of Google execs, take pictures, and post them on the Web. Let's see how long it takes for them to sue. Do no evil, a dead meaningless slogan if there ever was."
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Inventor Sues Google, Verizon, Others On 'Visual Voicemail'
Inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit against Google, Verizon Communications, and others in a patent infringement complaint. read more
Google Explains Why It Nixed Bluetooth And GChat From Android SDK
Last week, Google offered up a new version of the Android SDK. The new version added a lot of great stuff, but also subtracted support for a few elements. Those elements were Bluetooth and GChat. Google felt the need to explain itself. Here's what it had to say. read more
Canada To Review Yahoo-Google Ad Deal, Reports Say
Canadian antitrust authorities will look at whether the pact violates the country's competition rules. read more
Google And YouTube Need More Transparent Takedown Procedures
The removal of content from the Internet needs more safeguards. Right now, it's just too easy to make unsubstantiated claims that lead online services providers to block lawful content. read more
Google Sets Up Mobile Election Web Site
With 10 weeks to go before the election, the amount of news coverage surrounding John McCain and Barack Obama is set to skyrocket (as if it hadn't already). In order to help you parse through all the chatter, Google has set up a special Web site where mobile phone users can find the latest headlines. read more
Google's Lively Unloved
So Google's Lively isn't so lively. According to The Economist, "Hardly anyone is using Lively." read more
Google Offers Up Gears Geolocation API To Make Web Sites Location Aware
Google thinks it would be valuable to have any Web site you visit -- whether on your phone or PC -- know where you are. This way, you could receive information that is relevant to your location. A new API from Google will let Web site developers do this, without the use of GPS. read more
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Editor's Note
Nations Respond To Google Earth Threat
To deal with the "Google threat," as Google's geospatial mapping application Google Earth is characterized in the July 30, 2008, report from the Director of National Intelligence's Open Source Center, foreign governments have offered five main responses: negotiating with Google, banning Google products, developing similar products, taking evasive measures, and nonchalance.
The report, obtained by the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News site, recounts how nations have dealt with perceived privacy violations arising from the images Google makes available through its software.
Where individuals like the Borings in Pennsylvania have had to sue to protect themselves from Google's Street View cameras, sovereign countries have a wider set of options to protect national privacy.
Asking Google to have imagery removed or blurred has gotten easier since terrorists were confirmed to be using the software to plan attacks in 2006 and 2007, the report says. Following news reports in January 2007 that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra, Iraq, were using Google Earth as a planning tool, Google "seemingly became more open to dealing directly with foreign governments to assuage their security concerns," the report says.
But some governments prefer banning to negotiating. Bahrain blocked access to Google Earth servers for three days in 2006. Earlier this year, China began cracking down on unapproved mapping sites. And the United States has banned Google Earth in Sudan in accordance with export restrictions and sanctions.
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