Google Launches Public Data Explorer Tool

Google has released details of how sites that are falling foul of the new Maps API Terms of Service, which prevent access at a rate of greater than 25,000 accesses per day, can get the service back on track. The advertising...

Search engine giant Google has developed a new storage service which allows Google Apps users to rent disk space on the cloud. In a blog post, the company gave information about the User Managed Storage service,...

Google is to delete the Wi-Fi data, including e-mails and passwords, that it illegally collected when its Street View cars mapped the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) will not be investigating the matter...

Things are about to get messier as Google takes on Facebook in a battle to determine whether a service provider can control user generated content and/or data as tension between the two giants flared over the last two...

A leaked Google "vision statement" has revealed the search giant's agonising over just how far to go in profiting from the vast array of data is holds on the world's Internet users. The seven-page document seen by the Wall...

Google has issued a comprehensive report that gauges the search engine optimisation (SEO) on a number of distinct properties, and estimated that it was actually falling short on many of them. Dubbed as "SEO Report Card", the...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will be slashing its data retention period from 18 months to six months as the result of an ongoing conversation with a number of privacy stakeholders worldwide. The change will occur over the next...

Bumbling Mayor of London Boris Johnson today announced that City Hall is to release online,"huge realms" of previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free of charge.  The information will be made available...

Chrome, the web browser offering from search engine giant Google, has bagged the 3rd slot in the browser market, displacing Apple's Safari browser for the first time, just 16 months after its debut, according to a popular web...

German data protection authorities are investigating whether Google's web traffic measurement system Google Analytics routinely infringes privacy laws, according to a German newspaper report. Zeit reports that several regional...

The Scottish council of Dumfries and Galloway has received documents related to a £800 million data centre that could create up to 1000 new jobs in the region. The plans for the huge project were submitted by the Lockerbie...

So will Google’s greatly debated floating data centres come to fruition, or is their attempt to file a patent nothing more than a pipe dream? Well, if it were to make it from the drawing board to the high seas, there is an...

While all eyeballs are focused on Microsoft's potential acquisition of Yahoo, a rumour has resurfaced again at Techcrunch.com, only to be rejected outright by Kara Swisher at All Things Digital.The whispers point to Google...

Internet Data Cruncher Firm, Comscore has confirmed that Google's grip on the US Search market has been slightly loosened in December as the grand daddy of search lost a tiny 0.2, falling to 58.4 percent in December...

Zenoss Inc., a commercial open source IT management company, announced that it has added a direct integration with Google Maps and struck a business agreement with Google, Inc. that makes real-time, geographical visualization of...