SF News Hiring & Company Perks Are Back, Says Google Heads In a sign that the recession might -- might! -- be over, Google CEO Eric Schmidy and the lovely/talented/benevolent Sergey Brin told reports this morning that the company is partying like
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorbale Google Street View Animation It was between this, a cute animated video for Google Street View by Google Japan, or this, a clip of backstabbing Tyra Banks acting like a raging hypocrite during an interview with Cynthia
SF News UPDATED: Google 'Working on Fixing" Gmail Ack. Gmail is down. For those of you who have gmail accounts, which should be all of you, it's been showing a 502 server error since about, oh, a little before 1 p.
misc Exact Revenge on Your Neighbor Via Google Maps We randomly came across this little tidbit yesterday while searching for kid band The She's, who are performing at the Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday. The disgruntled revenge-seeker/Walnut Creek resident must
misc Google Doesn't Like 11th St, DNA Lounge Apparently, most of 11th Street (between Mission and Bryant Streets) was deleted from Google's Street View a few months ago, which was not fixed in yesterday's update. It also appears in the above
SF News Google CEO Steps Down From Apple Board Since working for both Google and Apple is starting to look odd, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently ditched his gig on the board at Apple. Being on the board since 2006, Schmidt thought
SF News Breaking: Marissa Mayer Opens Twitter Account SFist is a big fan of Google. So, naturally, we were elated to hear that Google VP of Search Product and User Experience and fellow air sign Marissa Mayer is now on Twitter.
misc Google Honors ComicCon ComicCon, the other annual gathering of comic stars and fans, is taking place this very second in San Diego, starting today and ending on Sunday. Never one to shy away from all things
SF News Behold Google Maps Favorite Places Yesterday, Gavin Newsom announced Google maps favorites, a feature that allows you, well, to list your favorite places, which then show up on Google Maps. Ta-da. A few celebrity favorite places of note?
SF News Geek Newsflash: Google Drops "Nuclear Bomb" on Microsoft Last night Google announced that it would soon be open-sourcing a new operating system, Google Chrome OS, to be run on netbooks for an ultimate 2010 release to consumers. Google says, "It’s
SF News Google to Drop "Beta" As of today, Google will remove the "beta" tag from most of its products, namely Gmail, which is over five years old and wildly popular with both business and personal users. While the
SF News Google Maps Misspells "Dolores Park" This goes out to all the commenters who get up-in-arms about copyedit errors: Burrito Justice & Mission Mission point us to the fact that the folks at the helm over at Google Maps
SF News Apple, Google, Yahoo, Genentech in Antitrust Probe Re: Hiring Practices Some of the largest employers in the Bay Area are being investigated by the Department of Justice to determine if they have been in cahoots not to recruit or hire away each others'
SF News Breaking: Larry Page Is Rich The uber- and always-divine Leah Garchik reports on who the wealthiest person in San Francisco is: Larry Page, co-founder and of Google. (Of course, the award for sexiest-wealthiest person in San Francisco, hands
SF News Google to Reshoot Japan's 'Street View' After receiving numerous complaints in Japan, "where personal privacy is highly valued," according to SF Business Times, Google will reshoot the country's street scenes. It seems that some of the shots in Japan,
SF News Google CEO to Newspapers: Speed Up Yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Newspaper Association of America's annual death procession. During the Q&A session, according to Valleywag, Schmidt answered every blogger's favorite question of rumination: what
SF News Unemployment Benefits Extended Today, the California State Senate "passed legislation that will extend benefits to the unemployed by 20 weeks, sending Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger the first bill involving money from the federal economic stimulus package," according
SF News Google Honors Eric Carle's <em>Very Hungry Caterpillar</em> OK, we know it's no longer cool to coo over Google's logos anymore -- we're sure most of you would prefer a post on the series finale Battlestar Galactica, a show we simple
SF News Gmail Unveils 'Undo Send' Feature The benevolent folks over at Google have been kind enough to add a nifty new Undo Send feature to Gmail. To turn on the new feature, go to 'undo send' in Gmail Labs
SF News Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Prefers Google Maps Speaking at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fessed up to the following bit of commonsense. Bartz was asked about the maps business and how Yahoo has fallen behind. She
SF News Google Prunes 100 Jobs In the throes of our failing economy, Google trimmed 100 jobs and close three offices this week. According to reports, 100 full-time recruiters were shown the door. Google also shutdown three engineering offices
SF News Google Unloads Loads of Temp Workers Due to the ongoing recession, Google, who can do no wrong in our eyes, has let many of its temporary workers go. The Mountain View-based company, according to Business Week, has an estimated
SF News Google Cancels Cash Bonuses this Year While we wait -- and wait and wait -- for Sergey Brin to call asking to meet him at the St. Regis lobby to "talk" over cocktails, some Googlers are bemoaning this year's
SF News Map du Jour: Concert Info Now in Google Maps View Larger Map Bandloop, a site that allows you to keep in touch with your favorite bands' whereabouts, is now in Google Maps. And it's actually quite helpful: each little blue point reveals
misc Some Extremely Awesome Stickers Screw the thank-you letter. Whatever happened to the sticker album? Because if this were the sixth third grade, these GMail stickers would go right at the front of the book along with the
