7 posts and columns on Google Search

Google Shutters Google.cn

in News on March 22, 2010 at 12:08 pm PT

Google has finally adopted the “New Approach to China” that it announced back in January, making good on its threat to end censorship of its services in the country. Earlier today, the company begun redirecting Internet traffic away from its Chinese-language site at google.cn to google.com.hk in Hong Kong.

Google’s New Homepage Motto: “This Space Intentionally Left Blank”

in News on October 30, 2009 at 9:54 am PT

Looks like Google is tweaking its homepage again. Surf over to the search sovereign’s front page today and you’ll find that the buttons for “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” have been swapped out for a bit of new text: “This Space Intentionally Left Blank.”
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Google Outage Caused by Asian "Traffic Jam"

in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.
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Google Outage Caused by Asian “Traffic Jam”

in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.
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