Todd R. Weiss

Google’s YouTube is working to make it easier for users to find comments from their friends or from people featured in the videos whenever users search YouTube for fresh content. To make that happen, YouTube is rejiggering the comments sections to make remarks from selected participants to get higher priority. The coming changes in the […]

Google’s Ideas think tank has helped create a fascinating online collection of constitutions for scores of nations around the world where visitors can explore and learn about how the documents change over time. The new site, called Constitute, was built by the Comparative Constitutions Project and supported with the help of the Google Ideas think […]

Google started 15 years ago today in a Menlo Park, Calif., garage that was rented for $1,700 a month. The company celebrated its 15th birthday by holding a media event in that same garage on Sept. 26, but the milestone was overshadowed by an announcement of a new search algorithm that aims to give better […]

Back in 2011, Google’s Street View cameras went deep inside the huge, amazing physics laboratories and research areas at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, capturing spectacular photographic images of the massive facility. Now, those images have finally been revealed in the latest Google Street View collection, Pascale Milite of the […]

Google is expanding its nascent Shopping Express home delivery service in San Francisco’s Bay Area for the second time since it began in March, this time adding order deliveries as far away as San Jose. The service expansion was announced in a Sept. 25 post by Tom Fallows, the product management director for Google Shopping […]

Google’s Gmail service has apologized to users who were affected by email delivery delays on Sept. 23, explaining in a blog post that the slowdowns were caused by a rare two-pronged failure in the company’s network architecture. “On Sept. 23rd, many Gmail users received an unwelcome surprise: some of their messages were arriving slowly, and […]

Google has released its new DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA) Campaign Manager, a platform that includes several new tools and capabilities for advertisers to get their messages out in front of consumers and other businesses. The updated new platform was unveiled globally in a Sept. 25 post by Payam Shodjai, the senior product manager for the […]

Google’s move back in 2004 to digitally scan some 20 million books so that Web searchers can find sections of them in searches has been vehemently opposed by critics, who argue that the practice is copyright infringement without payment. The battle has been in the courts for about eight years, with at least two proposed […]

Google’s RenderScript framework for running computationally intensive tasks with high performance on Android has been a popular tool for Android developers over the last several years, and it is now getting more powerful. For the first time, Google Android has released a RenderScript Support Library and an updated Software Developers Kit (SDK) that will allow […]

Google Chrome will no longer work with a series of older, formerly popular Netscape-era Web browser plug-ins starting in January 2014, as the company works to shed the plug-ins to make its modern Chrome browsers even more reliable. The move to remove Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) compatibility from Chrome browsers was unveiled in a Sept. […]