What if Google tried to blackmail you into using Google+? Google is trying harder than ever to force people to sign up for Google Plus. And now, they’ve discovered a new strategy to do this: either you join Plus, or they’ll release your search history and all the private information they’ve learned about you over...Read More
The India-Pakistan partition in 1947 separated many friends and families overnight. A granddaughter in India decides to surprise her grandfather on his birthday by reuniting him with his childhood friend (who is now in Pakistan) after over 6 decades of separation, with a little help from Google Search.Read More
These speed tests were filmed at actual web page rendering times. Equipment used: – Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed. – Monitor – 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180...Read More
See below some of this year pranks – no rickshaw stuff so far… Google, which has a long history of April Fools trickery, has a link on its home page today that reads, “Introducing CADIE: a singular upgrade to your online life” that stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. It links here, to an announcement...Read More