Google: Docs & Spreadsheets
Google’s April Fools’ Day 2013 Joke-A-Thon: YouTube Shutdown, Google Nose & More
April Fool’s Day is pretty much like a national … err, international holiday for everyone that works for Google. It seems that...
Google Widens Gmail Search Field Trial, Includes Google Drive In Search Results
Here’s another small step in Google’s effort to centralize your Google search activity: The company is expanding a field trial to...
Turnabout Is Fair Play: Google Sues The Feds For Not Considering Its Office Alternative
Google has been on the receiving end of several investigations and complaints from US government agencies. Now Google is taking the offensive...
Search Old Scanned Documents By Uploading Them To Google Docs
The Google Docs Blog announced you can now upload old scanned documents into Google Docs and Google will OCR the documents. OCR will convert the...
Google Reportedly Not Allowing Windows OS On Computers
Google ditches Windows on security concerns from the Financial Times reports that Google is no longer installing Windows on Google owned...
Google Apps Marketplace Opens For B2Business
Taking a page from Salesforce.com, last night Google formally launched the anticipated Google Apps Marketplace at its “Campfire One”...
Can Google Kill Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6?
On Friday afternoon, Google announced they will be discontinuing their support for “very old browsers.” They said, they will stop...
After The Hack, Should I Still Trust Google & The Cloud With My Data?
Over the past year, I’ve moved more and more of my data over to the cloud — in particular, to being stored with Google. I’m...
Google Docs Adds Files Storage, AKA GDrive
The Google Docs blog announced a new feature that allows you to upload files and share those files with friends, co-workers and colleagues....
Liveblogging The Google Chrome OS Press Conference
Something’s up with Google’s Chrome operating system. Don’t know what, but we’ll all know soon as a press conference...
Google Search’s View PDF Link May Go To Google Docs
Typically, when Google shows a PDF document in the Google search results, you see a link to “view as HTML,” in the snippet. Here is...
Google Wants The Web To Go Faster
Google wants to make the internet faster. By speeding up the “most important computing platform of our time,” Google believes that...
New Privacy Complaint Filed Against Google (And The Cloud)
Yet another privacy complaint has been filed against Google with the FTC, this time by the Electronic Privacy Information Center over...
Google Docs Bug Shares Your Documents Without Permission
Over the weekend a confirmed Google Docs bug may have shared your private Google Documents with others, without your permission. Google said...
Google’s Recent Bugs: SMS Spam, Safe Filter Stuck, News Fonts & Google Docs Spam
In the past day or so, I have spotted at least four somewhat major bugs with Google’s various products. They include Google sending dozens...
Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
Google’s announced they’re closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep...
Google’s Hal Varian Expounds The Virtues Of ‘Data Democratization’
Hal Varian is a UC Berkeley economics professor now on leave at Google as its Chief Economist. In that latter capacity Varian waxes poetic on...
Google Sites Launches: Replaces Jotspot With Team Sharing Software
Google launched Google Sites, basically a relaunch of Jotspot but with many more features. In short, this new software allows teams to share...
Google Docs Releases New Presentation Features
The Google Docs blog has announced new features for the Google Docs suite of tools. You can now create subfolders to more easily organize your...
If You Know About Google Docs, You’re In The Minority
According to a new survey of 600 “PC users” (and see here) by the NPD Group, 73 percent of Americans have “never heard of,...