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Oops! Google Ireland fined after Street View car parks illegally Google Ireland has paid a fine of €450 after one of its Street View cars parked illegally on Main Street, Castleisland, Co. Kerry. The internet giant made the contribution to the court "poor box" to avoid a conviction under Ireland's Road Traffic Act. Darren McCarra No responses 28th January 2012
New Google Account sign-ups are forced to join Google+ Web users creating Google Accounts for the first time are automatically dispensed with associated Gmail and Google+ accounts, with no option to opt-out, further enforcing the emerging paradigm that Google is Google+. Darren McCarra 2 responses 20th January 2012
Google begins to penalise sites with little content "above the fold" Google Search has announced an algorithmic change that now considers page layout an influence of page rank. More specifically, sites with little content "above the fold" - the area of a website that is immediately visible without scrolling - may not rank as highly from today onwards. Darren McCarra 4 responses 20th January 2012
IPv6 world launch date set for June Building on the success of last summer's World IPv6 Day - when the world's largest internet companies took the next-generation internet protocol for a 24-hour test-drive - the Internet Society has scheduled its official, co-ordinated launch for June 6, 2012. Darren McCarra No responses 18th January 2012
Hangout with David Beckham on Google+ Google are offering Google+ users a chance to hangout (live multi-user chat) with David Beckham, internationally renowned soccer player, later this month - if that's your sort of thing? Darren McCarra 2 responses 15th January 2012
Google's latest social search update further integrates Google+ Google has today announced the biggest social update to Google Search in over two years, integrating public and privately shared Google+ posts and images into search results. Darren McCarra No responses 10th January 2012
Google+ adoption rate accelerating, reaches 62 million users Google+ user adoption rate has accelerated to 625,000 new sign-ups each day, with the social network reaching 62 million users in total by December 27th, according to unofficial Google+ statistician Paul Allen and his team. Darren McCarra 2 responses 29th December 2011
Dropbox experiments with frictionless photo and video importing Dropbox has introduced an experimental new feature to the latest forum build of the application that automatically syncs photos and videos from cameras and smartphones to Dropbox once connected to a user's desktop or laptop. Darren McCarra 4 responses 28th December 2011
When Google Search ranking gets it wrong Sometimes when Google Search gets it wrong, it gets it wrong spectacularly. Recently, users searching the phrase "define an English person" have been receiving a very surprising and possibly offensive first-result. Darren McCarra No responses 15th December 2011
Google gifts Dublin's Science Gallery with €1 million to help develop global network Dublin's Science Gallery has today announced that it is to receive a gift of €1 million from Google.org as part of a Google Gives Back initiative to donate more than $100 million to deserving organisations around the world in 2011. Darren McCarra No responses 14th December 2011