In what might possibly be the largest websites ban ever in its history, Google has removed more than 11 million domains from its search result.

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Google is forcing everyone who has a private profile to go public by announcing that they will delete the private profiles by 31st of July 2011.

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Google plans to discontinue its Photo sharing platform Picasa and the blogging platform Blogger and will re-introduce them as Google Photos and Google Blogs. All this forms a part of the massive feature addition to Google’s new social network – Google+

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Facebook has blocked access to a Google Chrome application that helps users import their Facebook contacts into Google’s new social network – Google Plus.

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Google has disabled it’s Real Time search feature due to a contract expiry with Twitter. Google now plans to re-launch the service with updates from it’s new social network – Google Plus.

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Google has launched a promotional game for its Android phone – Nexus S. The objective of the game is pretty simple – you have to add Search, Maps, Gmail and YouTube into the Nexus S.

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If you have not got an invite to Google+ yet, here is some good news. You no longer need an invite to get into Google+ now. Google has opened up the service so that everyone can join regardless of invitation.

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Concern have been raised about the boundaries of the US Patriot Act. Some have been suggesting that the Act requires them US based companies to give user data to the US government, if asked for it, regardless of the location of the server.

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According data released by the Google Analytics Team, 89.9% of the users accessed the internet on Windows machines between November 1, 2009 – February 1, 2010. The number has however dropped to 84.8% by November 1, 2010 – February 1, 2011.

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