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Google announced on Wednesday that it is rolling out a significant redesign for its social networking platform Google+, which will allow users to create a more customized experience on the site.

The company said it will introduce a variety of new features to the site in the next few days, from customizing apps and the navigation bar to more flexibility with profile pages and pictures. (more)

Youtube has finally addressed one of it’s major issues – the algorithm (bit of maths) that reccommends a video to you after you watched another one has been changed to take more account of the total length of time a video has been played for (engagement) rather than the number of times it has been “watched” (more)

Google has long been obsessed with speed. It’s paramount in pretty much everything they do. Which is why the launch of Google+ with some — gasp — attention paid to design is even more surprising. But a new service Google is launching this evening very much puts the focus back on speed — an obsessive amount of focus, one might say. (more)

Web cam or webcam (web camera) is a live and real-time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video calling or video conferencing application. Webcam is increasingly used as web surveillance cams to monitor security, traffic beach, office, and other sensitive areas. Some of these webcams or networked cameras have Web interfaces that allows owners to view the image or video captured via Internet, and even direct the cameras’ motorized pan-and-tilt or zoom mechanisms. (more)

Google Hacking

This is by far the easiest hack of all. It really is extraordinary what you can find in Google’s index. And here’s Newsflash #1: you can find a wealth of actual usernames and passwords using search strings.

Copy and paste these into Google:

inurl:passlist.txt
inurl:passwd.txt

…and this one is just priceless… (more)

New tool by webddr is available in Free internet tools. The new tool is Longitude Latitude Geographical Coordinates with Google Map. The tool uses the Google Maps API to find out accurate geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) for any place on Earth.

It provides two ways to search, either by moving around the map and zooming in, or by typing an address if the place is unknown. (more)

The Chinese government Tuesday criticized Google for being “totally wrong” by stopping censoring its Chinese-language search results, while reaffirming that the foreign investment environment will not be affected in China, a ready made reaction after two months of tension sparked by the search engine’s pullout threat.

Surveys showed that the majority of China’s Web users is not much affected by Google’s decision to reroute searches to its Hong Kong-based site. (more)