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Is Google evil, or should we trust them with our personal data?
I think this exact question is the main challenge Google will be facing in the years to come.
Meanwhile there are more and more people stepping up who have doubts about Google’s good intentions…

Video sharing website YouTube turns 5 today. “Five years of YouTube, is that all?” was my first thought. After all it seems like YouTube has been around for a decade at least and we have to admit they revolutionized the internet as communication channel over the last few years.

On February 15, 2005 Chad Hurley, Steve [...]

Yesterday Google, the advertising company that doesn’t advertise, made its debut on television by advertising during the Super Bowl breaks. The commercial is supposed to tell a Parisian love story in search:
If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you’ll have seen a video from Google called “Parisian Love”. In fact you might have watched [...]

Really cool new Google Chrome ad! And really slow, unlike the browser…

OK, it’s a geeky joke but I like it. Google changed its robots.txt file for Halloween. Somewhere near the end it says:
User-agent: Kids
Disallow: /tricks
Allow: /treats
via Matt Cutts

The Google history in just over 2 minutes by Google UK:
A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome.

So I finally managed to get hold of a Google Wave invite (thx @prfection). After reading some of the comments Google Wave got in the blogosphere I wasn’t really that excited anymore and someone even referred to it as an improved chat box.

But that’s because everyone was anticipating Google Wave as the next social network [...]

Since almost two weeks, Google uses a new favicon. It’s the second time in less than one year Google changes its favorites icon:

This classic favicon was used for almost 8 years.

In May 2008, the favicon was changed for the first time ever. The protest was immense and in June 2008, Google started to encourage users [...]

One way to decide the battle of the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search) is this one:
Google vs. Yahoo!:

Google vs. Live Search:

Yahoo! vs. Live Search:

You can vote on Search Engine Rap Battle.

In a few hours, Google will launch the first version of Google Chrome, an open source browser, powered by Google. The rumors have been around for a long time and there were even moments when Google denied they were working on a Google browser. But today, a little earlier than expected, a mail containing a [...]