Google’s reCAPTCHA system is meant to block automated scripts, such as online bots, to generate artificial traffic or make artificial submissions on its services. The reCAPTCHA system is widely used online, including by some very notable websites such as Facebook and Craigslist. However, now three hackers have revealed how this system is very weak.
Google has rolled out a new crossbreed service of Google+ and Zagat named Google+ Local on Wednesday. By using the ‘Local’ tool, users can discover and share information about nearby places which is actually featuring Zagat scores and recommendations from trusted Google+ users. Beside that, the new service embodies information from Zagat, which Google has bought for $151 million last September.
Search giant, Google has won a suit for YouTube copyright issue against French broadcaster TF1. French court ruled that Google is not responsible for filtering out pirated content on YouTube. The TF1’s filed the complaint against Google owned video sharing site YouTube on the ground that the site hosts user uploaded copyrighted sports and movies that were property of the broadcaster. Because of illegal hosting and failure to remove copyrighted contents by YouTube, TF1 asked for more than $176 million (~141 million euros) in damages from Google. French court, however, turned down the TF1’s plea and ordered the broadcaster to pay around $100,000 (~80,000 euros) to Google as legal fees.
Google and Facebook haven’t been enjoying a particularly good relationship. The two have been criticising each other for a long time. For Google, the problem lies in the fact that Facebook wouldn’t share its user data with Google, although the social network chooses to do so with other websites. Facebook, on the other hand, doesn’t have any love lost for Google either.
Google has announced new Chrome OS desktop and laptops. The Samsung manufactured Series 5 550 Chromebook laptops & Series 3 Chrmoe box desktop are based on Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors. These Chrome OS based computers run all their applications through Google Chrome web browser and store files online in Google servers.
Rumors have long been abound regarding a Google tablet that a company may release some time soon. While Google’s Android platform has been popular on many tablets from multiple vendors, Google hasn’t directly released a tablet yet. However, now a few hints from a benchmark site suggest that Google is all set with a new tablet of its own.
Body regulation apps and software which monitor the performance of one’s body through different indexes, are becoming increasingly common. People use such software to keep track of their weight and other factors, and some may even publicly share it with others over social networks. However, it seems that this is just the tip of an iceberg.
David Elliott from Arizona has filed a complaint in court to cancel all of search giant Google’s trademark. Elliot wants the court to declare ‘google’ as a word which means “search on the Web”. He filed the complaint after a court ruling in favor of Google earlier this month that forced him to hand over more than 750 website names like googlegaycruises.com and googledonaldtrump.com. Elliott claims that the domain names were registered to represent a venture he wants to start which would encompass commerce, charity, and more.