Play Store app update rolling out with activity page, more social recommendations

The world is a social place, and the digital variety is no exception. Keeping pace with this, Google has announced a new update to the Play Store app that brings with it a couple different social elements achieved with Google Plus integration. The update is rolling out now, but will continue to do so for […]

Google Plus iOS app updates design, adds hi-res media backups and mapping

Google has issued three key updates to its Google+ app for iOS. Two of the updates apply to all iOS versions for which the app is supported (6.0 and later.) The third update applies only to iOS 7. All of the updates went live this morning. Version 4.6.0 of the app includes a fresh design […]

How to Tell Google Not to Use Your Face in Ads

How to Tell Google Not to Use Your Face in Ads

Google’s rolling out its new your-face ads today, so here’s a timely reminder on how to tell them to knock it off.

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Glass quietly adds personalized photo search

Google’s XE11 update for Glass may have added calendar and custom location support, but that’s not the only personalized search that the wearable now offers. Glass can now search through Google photos with a custom speech search command, so for instance it’s now possible to ask “OK Glass, Google my pictures for cats” and see […]

YouTube makes Google+ commenting system live

Back in September, YouTube revealed that Google+ commenting would be integrated into the video service, something that would revamp the system to provide better conversations and incentive to converse. It has been a bit over a month, and the change has finally gone live, bringing with it not only more relevant comments, but the ability […]

Google Helpouts only latest in long line of human help engines

The new “Helpouts” program by Google connects experts with people in need of answers via Google Hangouts and Google Plus. But the human help engine is only the technological evolution of a series of Google products designed to fulfill the same purpose. Its now-defunct Knol and Answers products are cases in point. Knol was designed […]

Hangouts SMS support doesn’t work with Google Voice

Earlier this week, Google announced a Hangouts update that brings SMS functionality, which is nice but unfortunately comes with a snafu. According to Nikhyl Singhal, who took to Google+ today, there are some issues to be ironed out with Google Voice, and for the time being neither of the two aforementioned Google services will be […]

Google+ image search grows: 1000 words added to non-tagged photos

If you’ve not tried to search through your images on Google+ with what Google calls Computer Vision, you really should take a peek. What Google had done today is to add a new wave of terms to what you’ve already been able to do since earlier this year: search through your photos with search terms […]

Google Hangouts SMS support added alongside GPS and Gifs

There’s now one single location users need to work with to talk with video, text, and images in the Google Android experience. Here with Hangouts, Google has made clear that they’re updating the system with three new features, the first – and most important – of these being SMS support. This means that the Hangouts […]

Google+ event taking place online tomorrow morning

This week the folks at Google responsible for hyping up announcements have done a fine job of it – not least of all because they’ve got a few devices waiting in the wings. Here this afternoon we’ve seen Vic Gundotra also announce the appearance of a new set of Google+ social networking features to be […]