As a part of Google’s pledge to be more open about their business activities, they have revealed information about the inner-workings of their data centres. Google’s Jeff Dean spoke to a crowd at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday describing how their data-centres are assembled. Apparently Google uses more-or-less ordinary servers and stacks 40 in […]

Google’s map service is causing the EU to be concerned about privacy issues. The map service which has already put detailed, street-level images from the US on the Internet, will likely want to get a worldwide picture as it has already done with it’s more distant maps. Street view offers 360-degree views at ground level […]

Google has now made its search available over an IPv6 connection, as announced on their official blog. You may have heard of IPv4. It is the fourth version of the internet protocol that the world depends on. However, IPv4 will soon need replacing as it only accommodates 4 billion possible IP addresses. That’s not even […]

Google’s new social media project called Friend Connect, officially launched today as a preview. The service is attempting to make it easier for ordinary websites to be more socially orientated and give non-technical webmasters a range of social networking features. Webmasters can insert a snippet of code into their sites to instantly add a range […]

Google is using Intel SSD technology in servers at the company’s headquarters according to a report in DigiTimes. SSD or solid-state disks, use flash memory much like a flash drive/dongle you attach to the USB port on your personal computer. SSD technology has many advantages including large reductions in energy consumption and large increases in […]