SF News Google Drive Coming This April Google will finally offer a new online storage service, rumored to be called GDrive, which will unveil itself at the start of April. Says who? Om Malik, that's who. And he's right about
SF News International Women's Day 2012 Honored By Google Logo, Grand Hyatt Protest Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. Google has reimagined its iconic logo into a piece celebrating the big day. To honor the holiday, as HuffPo notes, "Google created a simple, colorful doodle
SF News Frenchman, Caught Peeing In Garden By Street View, Sues Google A perturbed frenchman, caught peeing in his garden by Google's popular Street View feature, is suing the company for humiliation and invasion of privacy. The photo, posted online, has reportedly made him the
SF News Google At Work On Some Sort Of Home Entertainment System Sigh. Remember Google TV? Yeah, we barely do. Anyway, the Bay Area's most well publicized employer is working on their first real foray into the world of entertainment hardware, with the intent of
SF News What's Your Slavery Footprint Number? You may not think that slavery is still a major problem worldwide, and you'd be wrong. As Oakland-based Slavery Footprint can show you via their handy web-based survey, you might have as many
SF News Sergey Brin, Jack Dorsey Sign Open Letter Blasting SOPA The chilling Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), drafted by Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, would have catastrophic affects on how you use the web and who (namely the U.S. government) controls
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Purchases Entertainment/Dining Review Company Zagat On its site today, Google announced that they purchased dining and entertainment guide Zagat for an undisclosed amount. Thrilled with the company's recent purchase, Google VP Marissa Mayer noted, "Moving forward, Zagat will
SF News Google Maps Adds Weather Working yet again with the Naval Research Lab, Google unveiled their first real-time weather layer to go with Google Maps. The weather feature will show current temperatures and conditions around the world. This
SF News Google Engineer Worse Driver Than Google's Robot Car, Apparently Today in things that Google computers are better at than you, simple human: Driving. An incident involving a Google driverless Prius was originally reported by Jalopnik this morning as the first traffic accident
SF News Google Plus Slowly Takes Off Tired of blocking followers who post relentless political campaign-related gibberish or blatant Gilt-esque advertising? We don't know about you, but we sure are. (Side note: if you're a campaign director who's hired a
Arts & Entertainment Google Chrome Ads Make Heartstrings Zing We're suckers for both father-daughter drama and the occasional "It Gets Better" shlock. We're also suckers for Google Chrome. It should come as little surprise, then, that these new ads for Google Chrome
Arts & Entertainment Watch Tina Fey's Google Visit Tina Fey visited the Googleplex in Silicon Valley last week where she sat down for an interview with noted vaudevillian Eric Schmidt. Hilarity, of course, ensued. The 30 Rock creator/star discussed everything
SF News Google Share Prices Drop In a surprising move, Google's first quarter saw lower-than-expected earnings. This morning, shares were down $39.51 to $539. "But heavy spending on new hires and other investments crimped the bottom line, reports
SF News Lagy Gaga Arrives In S.F. To Hawk Google Moderator Lady Gaga, archenemy of thirtysomethings and elderly gay brethren across the land, was in town for her show at Oracle Arena tonight. Also, she made a pitstop at Google today to chat with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Steal 'Cook's Illustrated' Recipes (and More) With Google's New Recipe Finder and Search Engine You know what really gets our goat? Cook's Illustrated blocks most of their recipes online unless you buy an entrance fee or purchase a stupid magazine subscription. (Isn't having to sit through a
SF News Rumor Mill: Facebook, Google Eyeing Twitter Buy? Rumors are swirling - swirling! - about Google and Facebook conducting clandestine meetings about about buying Twitter. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Executives at both Facebook Inc. and Google Inc., among other
SF News 'Missing' Google Executive In Egypt Freed Wael Ghoneim, the Google marketing manager/opposition leader who has been "missing" in Egypt since late January, has been freed. "Google Inc. said Monday that its marketing manager has been released in Egypt
SF News Google Executive Missing In Egypt, Now Named Spokesman By Egypt’s Youth Opposition Movement Google’s head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, Wael Ghonim, who has been missing in Egypt since the uprisings began, has been named the symbolic spokesperson for the opposition
SF News Sergey Brin's Old Stanford World Wide Web Page While searching for an appropriate Sergey Brin link to use in today's "Google's Eric Schmidt Nets $100 Million" article, we came across one of Brin's old world wide web sites, a personal one
SF News Google's Eric Schmidt Nets $100 Million Although Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on his way out of the prized gig - company co-founder Larry Page, 37 (!), will replace Schmidt in April - he will be awarded $100 million worth
SF News Google Shakeup: Larry Page Takes Over as CEO An "unexpected shakeup" went down at Google today. Larry Page, company co-founder, will take over as CEO effective April 4. "Page, 37, is reclaiming the top job from Eric Schmidt, who had been
misc California: The Prop 19 State Very Small Array put together this curious map of the states as named by Google's autocomplete on Friday. When looking up California, they ended up with Prop 19, the state's marijuana initiative. (On
misc Googler Caught Illegally Chatting Behind the Wheel of Self-Driving Prius Apparently not content to test a computer's ability to drive one of those autonomous Priuses, a Google engineer was spotted testing California's hands-free cell phone law by chatting from the driver's seat (but
SF News Groupon Weighs $6 Billion Offer from Google Groupon, the collective discount peddler that is a dream come true for bargain-addicted Marina girls and can mean a slow death by coupon for some small businesses, is in talks to sell itself
SF News Working At Google: Now Better Than Ever Before Google employees have much to smile about today after it was announced that all company employees will receive a tasty pay bump. AP reports, "Google Inc. is showing it still knows how to
