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Google Enables Egyptians to Tweet via Phone

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Google has announced a service to allow Egyptians to tweet via phone (and no Twitter account necessary). “Anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People [...]

Syncing multiple Google calendars with iPhone 4

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, June 25, 2010

From http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=48e89dc25dc4ffe4&hl=en: Go to this website and select the calendars you want to display on your iPhone: https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect and making sure you select all your calendars from that page, and this appears to work from any browser, not just Safari on your iPhone. Once that is done, go into your iPhone settings< Mail, Contacts, Calendars [...]

Googling Security, by Greg Conti

By Surferbill - Last updated: Sunday, December 7, 2008

This sounds like a good book: Googling Security, by Greg Conti. “When you use Google’s “free” services, you pay, big time–with personal information about yourself. Google is making a fortune on what it knows about you… and you may be shocked by just how much Google does know. Googling Security is the first book to [...]

Google indexes one trillion unique pages (1,000,000,000,000)

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, July 28, 2008

From the blog: “The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just [...]

Google must divulge YouTube logs

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, July 3, 2008

The BBC reports: “Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a ‘set-back to [...]

Interactive GTA 4 Liberty City Map

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Grand Theft Auto 4 is so big IGN have created an interactive GTA 4 Liberty City Map. Have fun!

Google Search Privacy

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, March 10, 2008

Videos by Google on Search Privacy.

Google Zeitgeist 2007

By Surferbill - Last updated: Friday, December 14, 2007

Google Zeitgeist 2007 is out, take a look at the top search queries for the year.

Google Maps can’t find Newbury

By Surferbill - Last updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Google Maps can’t find Newbury Originally uploaded by Surferbill. Oops.

Where When?

By Surferbill - Last updated: Sunday, December 9, 2007

Where When? Originally uploaded by Surferbill. Google Calendar doesn’t seem to know where or when it’s going.