Google are looking to kill the humble Jpeg by introducing their own format of image compression weirdness: WebP Based on the VP8 codec used for video, WebP apparently reduces the file size by 39% on average, saving you, your ISP and the website you’re downloading those classy images from money, which will certainly help those [...]

Google are now making it as simple as they perceive it is possible to make a phone call to anyone in the world: from Gmail. Whilst in Gmail, users in the US can now call people by clicking “Call Phone” in their contact list and either selecting the person’s name that they want to call (if their number [...]

Google have decided to up the possible resolution of YouTube to 4K video (That’s 4096 x 2304 pixels, or 8 times larger than my desktop) to support future high resolution cameras and higher bandwidth internet connections that we will have in the year 2525… If you were to go to any of the videos on [...]

Today being the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, Google has put up the first ever interactive Google logo. Simply click INSERT COIN (which replaces the I’m Feeling Lucky button) and you can use the arrow keys to play Pac-Man right on the front page of Google. Here’s some tips from Google about the game and how [...]

It’s been a while, but now Google can loudly proclaim “Me Too!” when it comes to the Android Phone Party. One of the main bodies behind the Android movement, it’s been strange that Google hasn’t created it’s own phone, instead leaving it to others such as HTC to do all the hard work, but now [...]

Despite there being a whole month left in 2009, Google has decided to release a list of the top searched words, phrases and randomness in the UK from this and previous years… Year by Year in the “Noughties” (except for 2000, because that doesn’t count for Google for some weird reason): 2001: notradamus 2002: spiderman [...]

The Mountain View Chocolate Factory called Google has added to Labs “Social Search”. Effectively, the search giant has made a way to allow my friends to influence my search results. Blog posts and other related content by my social circle get put into the results, which as an idea isn’t too shabby. Just in case [...]

Today Google has expanded its popular Street View on Google Maps service to include imagery from eleven cities across Canada, including Vancouver and Whistler. With the 2010 Winter Games coming in February, Street View on Google Maps will enable people within Canada and worldwide to explore the host city and Olympic venues, from B.C. Place [...]

Question: How do you make Internet Explorer work better? Answer: According to Google, install a plugin called Google Chrome Frame that lets IE work like Chrome. Here, let this fine looking gentleman explain it for you… Just to clarify what Alex Russell is saying, you can install a plugin for Internet Explorer that, when a [...]

Google have finally seen sense, by allowing Google Sync (the thing you can use on your vaguely intelligent phones, such as the iPhone, Windows Mobile and S60 stuff) to not only sync the Gmail contacts and Google Calendar appointments to your phone, but now allows for full Gmail support. Hurrah! Of course, this is useful [...]