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Google is down, but is it out? The day the Google Earth Stood Still!
There have been tens of thousands of tweets on Twitter this morning all about Google and Gmail’s outage. The site is moving very sluggish and a simple Google search takes up to two minutes to respond. Users are also reporting that Gmail is completely down on both the web and devices such as the iPhone...

Keep Those Eyes Down: Google Street View to Re-Shoot Japan
Responding to privacy complaints, Google says it will re-shoot all Japanese pictures used in Street View using lower camera angles.
Google's Street View seems like a great idea—give users of its Google maps product a street-level view of a location so they can more easily find their way around. But the service has engendered all manners of privacy complaints, particularly from individuals who claim they can be identified from photos appearing on the service. The latest brouhaha is in Japan, where Google has quietly announced it will reshoot all photographs used in its Street View mapping service using lower camera angles. Google will lower the cameras on its imaging vehicles by 40 cm (about 16 inches) after numerous complaints they were invading citizens' privacy by shooting impacts over the fences of private homes.
So far, Google has shot Street View images in 12 Japanese cities, including Tokyo and Osaka. Following with the company's practices in the U.S. and Europe, Google has been blurring out items like car license plates and faces, but the image changes have not been enough to placate all privacy advocates...

Google Unveils New Search Products
Days before the planned launch of the Wolfram Alpha search engine, Google on Tuesday announced a series of new search products intended to provide more relevant results.

The new offerings include Google Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets, and an astrology-related Android app.

Google Search Options is a "rich set of tools that let you slice and dice your results," Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, said during a presentation at Google's Mountain View headquarters.

Specifically, once you conduct a normal Web search, you can drill down with different genres, including elements of time, visualization tools, recently added, blogs, or images, combining a variety of Google search products into one...


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