• Tweet Google has been accused of bypassing the privacy settings of users of the Safari web-browser. The Wall Street Journal said Google and other companies had worked around privacy settings designed to restrict cookies. Cookies are small text files stored by browsers which can record information about online activity, and help some online services work. [&hellip

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  • Tweet The popularity of Google+ has showed dramatic growth recently, according to February 2012 analysis from Compete, which tracked the the landing page for the main feature of the social network, the +1 button (google.com/+1/button, or plusone.google.com), beginning in November 2011. The page drew over 40 million unique visitors in December alone, with more than [&hellip

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  • Tweet Microsoft has taken out full-page newspaper adverts to criticise changes to Google’s policies. Google has touted the changes it announced last week as a simplification of detailed but obtuse policies and a way to provide a better user experience. However, Microsoft’s adverts say the changes allow Google to internally merge the data it collects [&hellip

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  • Tweet Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard. But the internet giant said it dealt with requests for material to be excluded on a country-by-country basis, meaning articles and videos might remain [&hellip

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  • Tweet Steve Yegge, a senior engineer at Google, has accidentally and publicly posted a critical analysis about his company’s understanding of platforms, calling Google Plus a "complete failure." In a 4,000-plus-word deconstruction of Google+, intended for his co-workers’ eyes only, Yegge critiqued his former employer Amazon before mentioning Google’s failure to create a platform that [&hellip

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