According to China Business News, Google will cease its search operations in China on April 10th. We have already shared a detailed article on Google China Controversy. To recap on what happened, it all started last December when some Chinese hackers hacked the Gmail accounts of some human rights activists. As a reaction Google threatened China that it will no longer censor its search results in China and if Chinese Government didn’t agree to the freedom of speech, it will have no other option than to close its search operations in China.

It all started last December when some hackers hacked Gmail accounts of some human right activists. Later Google found that these accounts were hacked by the hackers who originated from mainland China. As a result Google threatened Chinese Government that it will shutdown its search operations and will no longer tolerate what it calls “Strict Censorship”. Not only Google but over 20 large companies world-wide were similarly targeted by these Chinese hackers.

We have already shared number of articles on funny Google suggestions including What Google And Bing Thinks About Twitter? and Microsoft and Google Hate Each Other? but this collection is really funny . As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time. Although these suggestions are very helpful and time saving but sometimes these suggestions turns to be very funny. Here is a list of 12 craziest suggestions by Google!

You can easily write your name or create a logo for your website just like Google via GoogleFont.com. Do you know who was the first one who created the first logo for Google? Yes its Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. He desined the first logo for Google in 1998 using a free graphic program known as GIMP. Later Ruth Kedar, a Brazilian artist, created the official Google Logo, which you currently see on Google.com.

To help and facilitate those who suffered in Chile’s recent earthquake Google has launched a ‘Person Finder’ application, this app will connect those looking for missing people in Chile and those who have information.
Using Person Finder is pretty simple, it has a very simple and self explanatory UI, it gives two options “I’m looking for someone” and “I have information about someone”. One can either search for missing people in database and enter a new info, current stats of application say that there are around 8300 records in database.

Well finally Google Buzz! team have responded to the feedback given by many Gmail users due to some serious privacy issues.
According to the Buzz Team:
We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we’ve been working around the clock to address the concerns you’ve raised. Today, we wanted to let you know about a number of changes we’ll be making over the next few days based on all the feedback we’ve received.

Google Buzz! is a new service introduced by Google to share your updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. You can add Buzz this! button to your WordPress blog either manually or by using a WordPress plugin through which you can also view the buzz count!

On 1st April 2004, when Gmail was officially launched it lacked features like chat and video chat etc. Today, communication on the web has evolved beyond email and chat. So Google introduced Google Buzz, a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. You can connect the websites you frequently use like Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google Reader. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch.

Apple’s iPad was certainly the center of news for last couple of weeks, due to iPad fuss, we overlooked some of the important developments from Google. What that might be? Well, apparently it looks that search engine giant has firm plans to launch its own tablet. The name of tablet isn’t clear yet, but people are calling it Google Chrome OS Tablet and gTablet. Google actually released news about its upcoming tablet before the release of iPad on Chrome-OS Dev Page, but the news came in spotlight when last night, Glen Murphy (Google UI Developer) blogged about some Chrome OS-based tablet ideas.

Google just introduced their own DNS service named “Google Public DNS”, it’s free and every one can use it. It’s an interesting initiative from Google, as I can’t seem to figure out that what kind of benefit Google intend to get from this free service at later stages. Few basic questions which come in mind about Google Public Domain Name Service (DNS) are, Why should one use it? What kind of benefits are associated with it? and How to use it?