Todd R. Weiss

Google’s YouTube online video service is getting a bit easier to use now that user playlists are being given more attention as part of a YouTube home page update. The changes were unveiled by Yining Zhao, a YouTube Web developer, in a Feb. 20 post on the YouTube Official Blog. “The way you watch YouTube […]

Google’s Map Maker services, which allow local residents and visitors to add pertinent local details and flavor to Google Maps to make them even more accurate, is now being expanded to Greece, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The wider coverage of southern and eastern Europe was announced by Nicole Drobeck, the Map Maker […]

When it began operating in 1998 from a garage in Menlo Park, Calif., Google was a pure-play Internet search company with a starkly simple home page and a revolutionary plan to improve Web search using its own special algorithms. Fifteen years later, search is still the crown jewel of Google’s business, but the company used […]

Google is being sued by a German design and engineering company over allegations that its Google Earth product infringes on the patents held for a similar product invented by the company, ART+COM, back in 1994. The lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 20 in United States District Court in Delaware, claims Google Earth displays “a remarkable […]

The wonders and majesty of the Taj Mahal and 29 other important architectural treasures in India are now on display for online visitors around the world to explore through spectacular color images in Google’s Street View galleries. The images were collected recently by Google personnel who used the company’s innovative Street View Trekker backpack-mounted cameras […]

Google is looking for a few great young companies to invest in through a new Google Capital growth equity fund that it has formed to help nurture promising new business ventures that are in the midst of their growth phases. “Ever since our founders began working out of a garage in Menlo Park, we’ve thought […]

Google has just announced several new updates for its Chrome for iOS, Chrome OS and Chrome browser software products that repair bugs, improve stability and add new features for users. Amid the updates is a new Chrome 33 browser release for iPads and iPhones, according to a Feb. 18 post by Jason Kersey of the […]

Google Maps, which has been the subject of a big redesign since May 2013, is now finished and available to users as a default online application to help them get around from point to point. The redesign’s completion and the availability of the latest Maps services were announced by Brian McClendon, vice president of Google […]

The Google Drive API is the featured topic for a new, free online course aimed at helping app developers learn more about how to use the Drive API in their apps. Google is offering the online course through Code School, an online learning community that provides a wide range of classes for developers, according to […]

Google wants its Google Glass devices to prosper, so it just released a sort of “etiquette guide” online to help users avoid offending others when using Glass in public places. Reports from around the nation have occasionally made headlines when bars, restaurants and other public facilities have posted signs inside their establishments banning the use […]