It looks like the black navigation bar that hover above the Google search, will soon go away. The company is testing a new replacement that’s similar in execution to the Chrome app launcher. It seems everything will be located towards the side of the search bar and requires users to simply click on the grid icon.
Google Adds Person Finder For The Boston Marathon Explosions
Google has launched a person finder for the Boston Marathon explosions that happened earlier today, to aid in helping people find love ones that either attended or participated in the Marathon. Up to 15,000 people are said to have been involved with the marathon today.
Huh?? Google Introduces A New Service To Use For When You’re Deceased?!?!
Google has launched a new service that allows users to get their online affairs in order once they are dead. That’s right, the service is called Inactive Account Manager and there are several options users can choose in order to deal with their Google account data and information. Users can choose to have an alert sent to a mobile phone after a certain amount of time of inactivity.
Google Creates Hotline For WHAT?!?!?
Google has been working to help fight human trafficking, the narcotics trade and weapons smuggling. These illegal activities bring in over $2.1 trillion in profits every year. Last year Google decided that it would help in the fight in taking down human trafficking.
Google Is Trying To Buy THIS App For HOW MUCH?!?!?!
Sources are saying Google has been possibly making moves to acquire the app, WhatsApp. for $1 billion. It seems that Google is creating their own messaging app system that will cross multiple platforms allowing everyone no matter the phone to communicate. Both Facebook and Google are said to have approached WhatsApp in the past months.
Companies Ask Google To Take Down WHAT?!?!
Companies like Microsoft, NBC Universal and Fox have been asking Google and ChillingEffects.org to stop posting the take down orders. The companies are saying the DMCA notice contain URLS of take downs that have already been taken down. The DMCA notices are the easiest way for the companies of certain copyrights to have their infringed work taken down from the internet quickly.
