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While this policy does not apply to the Google Chrome browser; the newest iteration (version 16) of Google Chrome always asks you to sign in to "your Google Account" when it starts. Even if you do not sign in to the Google Account, it takes longer to get to your webpages that you want to view. If you signed into the Google Account and they tracked you, this would likely make the browser perform less quickly. Google's search (pun intended) for advertising dollars is not only making people leery about privacy issues, but it also impacting the quality of their browser, in my opinion; as a browser's primary focus should be to display webpages (as Internet Explorer does not try to get me to buy Microsoft Word). I feel that this could hurt their business in the short run, and maybe even permanently.

This is what google has been investing in :) "Google Makes Huge Bet On 'Magic Leap' Virtual Reality Tech" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/22/google-magic-leap_n_6026676.html

"Google Reader service ending. Feedly is planning to launch a clone of the service"

Google Fiber offers gigabit Internet access -- speeds 100 times faster than national averages -- for just $70 per month.Google I've seen the future. It's called gigabit Internet by Google Fiber, and it just launched in my hometown of Provo, Utah, the second of three scheduled cities to get speeds that are 100 times faster than the rest of America.

Never thought this would happen.

Does anyone remember Google Wave from a few years back? It was an early attempt at social networking that flopped miserably.

I figured it was due to people using youtube as well as people using gmail. http://www.reelseo.com/google-plus-gmail/

Google today announced that it wants to fix your home Wi-Fi, but internally, it has long been working on far more complex networking issues. To connect the hundreds of thousands of machines that make up a Google data center, you can't just use a few basic routers and switches.

Anything that affects Google, or Apple has an affect on networking. This article is about both companies.

This is a little information about the Google fiber optic internet project.

Google declares war on other lousy websites

Since the class was talking about different protocols, I thought it is interesting that Google is giving up on its homegrown SPDY protocol, which aimed to deliver a faster web browsing experience in Chrome than tried and true HTTP. Instead, it's adopting HTTP/2 -- an upgraded version of the protocol that's close to being standardized -- in Chrome 40 in the next few weeks.

This article seemed kinda boring. It says that soon searching the internet will be as simple as verbally asking your computer a question. Seems kinda elementary, voice recognition has been around for awhile. But the article did mention that this would be a key feature in the google glasses computer.

Although Google's new privacy policies have proven controversial, that hasn't stopped the company from cementing its position as America's favorite search engine. According the latest survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 83% of American Internet users say they use Google to search most often while just 6% say they use Yahoo most often.

This is pretty interesting.

Project Loon looks to use a global network of high-altitude balloons to connect people in rural and remote areas who have no Internet access at all, help fill coverage gaps for areas that can't be served profitably by existing providers, and rapidly connect people after disasters when existing infrastructure has been compromised.