Google Buzz launched earlier this year to compete with Facebook and Twitter in a social networking war that, lets face it, they have never really had a chance of winning. As seemed fairly inevitable at the time Google Buzz is still some way behind the main two in terms of users but Google have given themselves a boost by integrating their popular Google Maps service with their new social networking platform. (more…)

In response to Google’s recent release of their updated “Google Docs” office suite program, Microsoft and Facebook have joint forces to create a rival online document- sharing service that suspiciously looks a lot like Google’s mew software. (more…)

Google have announced a brand new feature that will allow users of social networking site Twitter to search a public archive of Tweets efficiently, the service will be named Google Replay. (more…)

Twitter have confirmed that they will finally be releasing the first official Twitter application for a mobile operating system, the beneficiary of this will be Google’s Android. (more…)

Google has undergone a major overhaul of its suite of business management applications (Google Apps) in order to provide a rival to Microsoft Office 2010 which is set to be released in the coming months. (more…)

Google have kept to their previously promised practise of buying one new company every month in 2010 with the purchase of UK based visual search engine Plinkart. (more…)

Google have announced that they are going to be integrating their social networking service, ‘Buzz’, into the web-based version of their G-mail e-mail client for iPhone and Android smart-phones. (more…)

Google seem to be setting somewhat of a trend in 2010 as they have recently announced their 5th acquisition of the last four months. It was confirmed last week (Friday) that Google have purchased Video Service Episodic. (more…)

2010 has been a year of major change so far, many of the internet’s most well known and well used sites have undergone some sort of re-design, Google owned video streaming site YouTube has picked up the baton and continued the trend this week. (more…)

Users of iGoogle, the personalised Google homepage, and Orkut chat will now be able to share documents, pictures and other files directly with friends whilst chatting in iGoogle or Orkut. (more…)

Google has (for a change) lost a court case that it filed against a small Canadian search engine called Groovle.com. The search engine giant had claimed that the name resembled theirs closely enough to confuse people. Google had asked that 207 media, the company in question, hand over the domain to them, however this claim was refused by the arbitration panel appointed by the National Arbitration Forum. (more…)

No one would be surprised to learn of delight at Microsoft related to the news that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, are thinking of removing their content, which includes some of the world’s most popular newspapers and television channels, from Google. There is famously no love lost between the companies. However, few commentators would have expected Microsoft to wade in, in quite the style they are thought to be contemplating. (more…)

Google Wave, the application that promises to revolutionise collaborative work and communication between friends and colleagues, has received a practical endorsement from members of the scientific community, who are already using it to work together on collaborative projects. (more…)

Some of you may have noticed a new thing that the Google homepage has started doing when it loads up. Last week, some users began to see only the search bar when they loaded the page, no logo and no surrounding links, these would then fade in slowly after a couple of seconds. (more…)