Google has just announced a new policy that they will not anonymize search requests for 18-24 months. There were a number of reasons given, including "complying—and anticipating compliance—with possible data retention requirements" -- presumably from the government. With user privacy compromised, its likely that many Google searchers will look to other means of searching for information that won't allow them to be tracked.
Google experiences site outages. Yahoo, Myspace and Youtube have also been down.
Our company recently switched from hosting our email internally on our own servers, to outsourcing to Google Hosted Services, the new Google Apps service which is an extension of Google's Gmail for Your Domain. This article is about our experience with the service, and with Google's email system in general.
Google's mobile search can come in handy... it may even be saving lives.
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