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Does the great Google unification create more problems than it solves?

Yesterday Google announced it would be “simplifying” its privacy policy so that all separate Google product accounts would be tied together for a single signup system. As expected, privacy advocates are outraged by the change and Google’s failure to allow …

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Google to Update Privacy Policy to Cover Wider Data Use

Google said Tuesday that it would revise its privacy policies and terms of service, to make them shorter and more readable and to change the way Google can use information that users provide.

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Google Declines After Results Miss for First Time Under Page

Google Inc. fell the most in more than three years after Larry Page delivered his first disappointing quarterly results as chief executive officer, showing that a mobile advertising push and weakness in Europe curtailed growth.

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Google closing Picnik, along with a number of other services

Google has announced it will be retiring the online photo-editing service Picnik, together with a number of other products that the web giant feels “replicate other features, haven’t achieved the promise we had hoped for or can’t be properly integrated …

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Google's results fall short, rare miss pummels shares

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc's quarterly results fell short of Wall Street's heightened expectations for the holiday season as Europe's economic malaise weighed, a rare miss that triggered a 9 percent slide in its shares. The No. 1 Internet …

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Google adds meme generator to Google+ photo tool

Announced by Google Senior Software Engineer Colin McMillen on his Google+ account, Google is adding the ability to create new Internet meme designs using photos that are uploaded to Google+. After the user drops a photo into the sharebox on the Google+ …

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Google appears poised to deliver impressive 4Q

Google's fourth-quarter earnings are expected to show the Internet search leader is doing better than ever, thanks to an online holiday shopping splurge that helped sell more advertising. The details are scheduled to be released after the stock market closes …

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Google admits to Kenyan data scraping allegations

Google has admitted that some of its employees fraudulently gained access to the servers of a Kenyan business directory and tried to poach its customers.

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FTC Is Officially Looking into Google's Self-Promoting Search Features

Google still doesn't think it did anything wrong, even as the Federal Trade Commission folds its new search features that promote Google+ into its anti-trust investigations of the company. After a formal complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center and not so formal grumblings …

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Google, Google+ and search: Maybe it's all an SEO play

"I perceived that Google would grant my site preferred placement–more algorithmic traffic–if I linked my Google Plus account to my web site and online publications," says Harvard professor Ben Edelman.

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