Swim with Turtles using Google Street View

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Google are always doing something that makes us go “WOW” and this street view in the ocean allowing you to explore with Turtles at Heron Island is amazing.

Google Advertising Able To Target Sensitive Health Information

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Google is to take steps to stop “privacy-intrusive” ads that are related to information about device users’ health.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has investigated claims that a man with sleep apnea found that that Google ads followed him on completely unrelated sites on devices that he has been using.

You can read more here.

Google Buys Nest For $3.2 Billion

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Google has announced that they have entered into an agreement to acquire the company Nest Labs for $3.2 Billion.

Nest Labs are the producers of the Nest Thermostat which is a Learning Thermostat which remembers what temperatures you like and creates custom schedules for your home, and turns itself down when you’re away.

One of the great things about the Nest Thermostat is that you can control it from anywhere with your phone, tablet or laptop.

Save more energy with the Nest Learning Thermostat

Google are interested in Nest due to the this an other products such as the Nest Protect Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm.

Google Zeitgeist | Here’s to 2013

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Google Year in Search | Here's to 2013

Google Updating Toolbar PageRank in December 2013

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On December 6th 2013 Google has pushed out a Google PageRank update when no one was expecting it. The last official update was February 4th 2013 and the next one was due August 2013. After this didn’t take place it seemed that Google had changed its focus and this has taken all webmasters by suprise.

Why isn't my site's PageRank changing?

Why don't you turn off the PageRank feature in the Google Toolbar?

Matt Cutts has actually confirmed on Twitter that this update was a kind of accident by Google:-

Google Page Rank Update 6 DEC 2013

Webmaster should now be checking the whether the Google Page Rank has dropped.