Washington, Internet giant Google has been by Fortune magazine as the best place to work in the US. The Mountain View, California-based company hired about 7,000 people in 2011, the most intense hiring spree in its 13-year history, which moved Google up from fourth to first on Fortune's annual list of the 100 best companies to work for, Xinhua reported. "Employees rave about their mission, the culture, and the famous perks of the Plex: bocce courts, a bowling alley, eyebrow shaping (for a fee) in the New York office," Fortune wrote. "What people often focus on are the flashy, showy things, like the massages and the food, which are important to us. But they are not the real story about what makes our culture work," Laszlo Bock, Google's senior vice president for people operations, told San Jose Mercury News, a daily newspaper in Silicon Valley. Larry Page, Google co-founder and chief executive officer, said in an interview with Fortune: "We've always been good at making sure we're treating employees flexibly. You treat people with respect. They tend to return the favor to the company. And that goes for ...
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New Delhi, Google India and Facebook India Monday again told the Delhi High Court that it was impossible for them to control content with billions of people accessing the websites. The court adjourned till Jan 19 the hearing related to allegedly objectionable content on 21 websites. Senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, appearing for Google India, said that the summons issued to social networking sites by a metropolitan magistrate showed complete lack of understanding about how the online system worked. He argued that the issue was related to the freedom of speech. "The issue relates to a constitutional issue of freedom of speech and expression, and suppressing it was not possible as the right to freedom of speech in democratic India separates us from a totalitarian regime like China," he said. Arguing that Google India and Google Inc. were different entities, he clarified: “It has nothing to do with Google India directly or indirectly, I am not responsible for it.” He submitted that the petitioner company had no control over websites where the objectionable material was posted. “I am only a search engine, the offending materials of websites have ...
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Washington, The U.S. patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Internet search giant Google. The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of the wheel. It explains how the car would know when to take control, where it is located and which direction to drive in. The search firm suggests the technology could be used to offer tours of tourist locations or to send faulty models to repair shops. The application for Transitioning a Mixed-mode Vehicle to Autonomous Mode was applied for in May, but had been hidden from public view until this week. The document describes using two sets of sensors. The first identifies a "landing strip" when the vehicle stops. This then triggers the second set which receives data informing the machine where it is positioned and where it should go. Google says the landing strip could simply be a mark on the ground, a sign on a wall, or lines or arrows showing where the vehicle should be parked. To detect which landing strip it has been parked at, the document says the car could activate a GPS (global positioning system) receiver to find its rough ...
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Canberra, Search giant Google has removed a Dutch company''s website, which allowed users to navigate Google Street View maps and walk through the streets of many real-life cities with an assault rifle. Dutch ad agency Pool Worldwide recently unveiled a gamer''s dream-a video game map as big as the world, making use of Google''s Street View service and a gun. The game, Google Shoot View, had an M4A1 carbine superimposed on Google Street View images with gun sound effects, allowing users to go to different places, including Melbourne, and begin shooting at whatever they wanted with no blood or guts involved. But Google has put a stop to it, with the Dutch ad agency saying the US search giant had blocked it from using its Street View service, The Age reports. “Google has apperantly [sic] killed the link to their API,” the company said on its site. “Sorry for the inconvenience. We will be back!” it added. According to the report, Michael Meloni of somebodythinkofthechildren.com, a blog about censorship and moral panic in Australia, predicted the game would present an irresistible opportunity for politicians, law enforcement and the media to ‘have a ...
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London, Google Chrome has overtaken Mozilla Firefox to become the second most widely used web browser in the world, according to new statistics. According to StatCounter, Google Chrome now has a 25.7 percent share of the global market compared to Mozilla Firefox’s 25.2 percent. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remains out in front with a share of 40.6 per cent. StatCounter chief executive Aodhan Cullen believes that Google Chrome will continue to close the gap. “We can look forward to a fascinating battle between Microsoft and Google as the pace of growth of Chrome suggests that it will become a real rival to Internet Explorer globally,” the Telegraph quoted Cullen, as saying. Google Chrome, developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine, was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or “chrome”, of web ...
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ਇੰਟਰਨੈੱਟ ਸਰਚ ਇੰਜਣ ਖੇਤਰ ਦੀ ਪ੍ਰਮੁੱਖ ਕੰਪਨੀ ਗੂਗਲ ਨੇ ਗੂਗਲ ਟੀਵੀ ਲਿਆਉਣ ਦੇ ਲਈ ਇੰਟੇਲ ਅਤੇ ਸੋਨੀ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਹੱਥ ਮਿਲਾਇਆ ਹੈ। ਹੁਣ ਟੈਲੀਵਿਜ਼ਨ ਅਤੇ ਸੈੱਟ ਟੋਪ ਬੌਕਸ ਦੇ ਰਾਹੀਂ ਗੂਗਲ ਦੀ ਵੈਬਸਾਈਟ ਤੁਹਾਡੀ ਬੈਠਕ ਵਿੱਚ ਆ ਸਕਦੀ ਹੈ। ਨਿਊਯਾਰਕ ਟਾਈਮਜ਼ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਕਿ ਗੂਗਲ ਟੀਵੀ ਪ੍ਰੋਜੈਕਟ ਕਈ ਮਹੀਨਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਚੱਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਇਹ ਉਸਦੇ ਐਂਡ੍ਰਾਇਡ ਨਾਮਕ ਸਾਫ਼ਟਵੇਅਰ ਉੱਤੇ ਆਧਾਰਿਤ ਹੈ, ਜੋ ਕੁੱਝ ਸਮਾਰਟ ਫੋਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਪਲਬੱਧ ਹੈ। ਅਖ਼ਬਾਰ ਨੇ ਕਿਹਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਇਸ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਸ਼ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਗੂਗਲ ਅਤੇ ਇੰਟੇਲ ਨੂੰ ਕੰਪਿਊਟਰ ਦੇ ਖੇਤਰ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਹਰ ਨਿਕਲਕੇ ਟੈਲੀਵਿਜ਼ਨ ਖੇਤਰ ਵਿੱਚ ...
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