Google claims to have created a software technology that will allow them to set up Pagerank kind of technology even to image searches. At International World Wide Conference in Beijin, two of the Google scientist said this new technology will be called as Visual Rank. Visual Rank algorithm is been created for ranking and weighting images that are similar in look. picked by dude17 4 days ago

Officials in Kiryat Yam, a small city in northern Israel, have filed a complaint with police against the Internet search engine Google. The city argues that one of Google’s programs, Google Earth, gives viewers false information that offends the city’s image. picked by Ionb 3 months ago

Every homeless person living in San Francisco will be given a phone number and voicemail to help them get back on their feet, Google says. The internet giant has promised to provide the life-long services to the city's entire homeless population in order to help them get a job and build self-esteem. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

This story has gotten a lot of play. Google has since edited the streetview but the original images have been saved. Basically it looks like some sort of cash transaction is going down on the street. The all-seeing eye of the Google misses nothing. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago

Here is a time lapse video of the making of the little Google Doodles that pop up on holidays and other special occasions picked by mahler87 3 months ago

A Garden City mom was surprised and outraged to find pictures of her children on a Google Map Search Internet page. picked by dollyllama 3 months ago

The Google van(?) drove right up their driveway which was marked private. The family, whose terrible name is Boring, are suing for $25,000 saying that part of the property's value was privacy. picked by coldbladed 1 month ago

From the first idea, to the last. How Google moved from plain, to an icon we all now acknowledge. picked by MUPpetMAKer 3 months ago

Pentagon has banned Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases. picked by 2longdogs 2 months ago

We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

Blackle----searching google AND saving the environment at the same time

update on this picked by acemak 3 months ago

Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine. picked by leopoldogolba 4 months ago

Google have developed a new version of their web crawling algorithm that is able to build an accurate model of what the web will look like 24 hours into the future. This includes lottery results sites and reports of sporting events.

This will be formerly announced tomorrow, but a beta version made available today has leaked the news picked by Pocksucket 2 months ago

Gallery of the new Google offices in Zurich, all the benefits of the Googles building in Silicon Valley but so much better!

Video of the offices HERE Well worth a watch! picked by doggylives 2 months ago

The McKees own a house that is featured in a much more intrusive set of Google StreetView images...

Update to this story. picked by extc68 1 month ago

Next time you’re virtually roaming Google Earth, make sure you take a close look at any unusual landforms.

Geologist Arthur Hickman did just that, and is now the proud parent of the Hickman Crater, a meteorite crater in the Hamersley Ranges. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Lots of smart people are trying to figure out how to monetize social networks. It's no easy feat: Even if millions of people log on to Facebook twice a day, they aren't there to buy sneakers, they're there to connect with friends. picked by JDRucker 4 weeks ago

So these guys do Lost parodies using the action figures from the show. My favorite one is when Gandolf shows up looking for Merry. picked by heymrp 3 days ago

PhotoOverlay creator has been made specifically to place high resolution imagery into Google Earth. The tool supports full 360x180 degree panoramas, partial cylindrical panoramas and standard photographs or images, all within a simple point and click interface. picked by wildminou 2 months ago

Translates any web page you want into "pimp language". The best pages to translate are serious news articles on cnn or a site like that picked by picklebob12 2 months ago