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By Webologist • December 2nd, 2009

In what seems like a U-Turn on the dream of making the Internet more accessible, Google have announced plans to limit how much news people can read.
Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced.
The concession follows claims [...]

Google has finally revealed the code of its Chrome operating system to the public. Chrome OS is an open source operating system, much like the Linux operating system. This essentially means that users do not have to purchase it, and there is no advertising built into it. More importantly, as it is open source, it is much easier for computer programmers to develop their own enhancements to the software.

Google is developing Google Sites into a new free web hosting service. Maybe they have responded to the closure of Yahoo’s Geocities. They have stated that they have seen a large increase in businesses using Google Sites.
I’m pleased to announce we just added a stocked gallery of site templates in Google Sites. Anyone can browse [...]

Interesting changes to the way Google displays search results.  In addition to the website URL it will also show a breadcrumn style trail from the homepage whenever it can.

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 08:02 AM PST
Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where [...]

Google has released version 2 of its Android operating system to Android application developers.
We are expecting to see a lot more synchronisation with the new Android OS. Although much is under wraps sill, we are expected there to be photo and video synchronisation, so that all photos taken will be streamed over to more secure [...]

If you want to reach a global audience (and why wouldn’t you?) then the easiest way to appeal to more people is to provide an easy way for them to see your website in their own language. Although auto-translation tools do not provide a particularly good translation, often the actual intended meaning is lost, they [...]

Google Wave is set to be a pretty exciting new Internet platform. Testing is starting, so soon we should be hearing more about it. Hopefully soon it will be ready for public use!

Starting Wednesday, September 30 we’ll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to:

Developers who have been active in the [...]

You may be wondering what Confucius’ birthday has to do with the study of the Internet. Well, not a lot. But Google’s Search logo today is in honour of the man, so I thought that I would mention it. I just went to Google to search for something, and was curious to see what the [...]

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Once again the GMail servers have died. Right in the middle of the day (or start of the day for the Americas). Come on Google. Fix your servers! Many people are [...]

Now that mobile technology is progressing well, and more an more websites are producing mobile versions, and that Google offer mobile targeted Adsense / Adwords advertising, now is the time to start thinking about the best way to win the Adsense in Your Pocket market, and get advertising on your sites showing up on mobile [...]