Google recently came under fire for authorising a new smartphone app designed to help parents work out whether or not their son is homosexual. The ‘Is Your Son Gay?’ app has drawn criticism across the board for aiming to provide an answer to the question parents have apparently ‘been asking for perhaps too long’, with Read Blog…

With Facebook set to announce an extensive range of new features at the ‘f8′ conference this Thursday, it comes as little surprise that Google has finally opened its doors to the public.  The move was announced in a series of posts across the Google Webmaster blogs and a few new additions have appeared on the Google Read Blog…

In one of the most unsurprising announcements of recent weeks, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook will be launching a host of new features, including a new video messaging service powered by Skype.  At face value, this may appear to be a direct response to Google+ and the ‘Hangout’ video messaging service that they offer. However, at Read Blog…

First of all, let me start by saying that something seems wrong with Google+, it doesn’t look awful.  In fact, it looks accommodating and user-friendly; two words you would never have associated with a Google social project before.  Perhaps the most significant feature of Google+ is that it doesn’t look like an anti-Facebook, in fact it Read Blog…

Getting a site accepted as a Google News source is a very hard task indeed, and it’s not for everyone. If you are targeting Google News as part of your SEO campaign, it’s important to realise it’s not just about content. If you want any hope of success, you have to have the right look. Read Blog…

Google really want to be clear about their mission statement. They didn’t become the world’s largest search engine by luck alone – they did it by listening to their users and implementing changes for the better when required, to improve the quality of their search results time and time again. For a while most tweaks Read Blog…

Larry Page has only been chief executive of Google for just under a week, but he’s already working hard to make sure that the company is singing from the same hymn sheet. And from the looks of it, it’s a very social hymn sheet. An internal Google memo, which was leaked to Business Insider, suggests Read Blog…

Though Google continues to insist that there’s no rivalry between itself and Facebook, there’s no doubt that they’re engaged in serious competition with each other to land the largest fish in the advertising pond. There has been a lot of speculation over the way Google has handled itself with the web becoming ever more social Read Blog…