Islamabad (ip-192.com): Pakistan blocked access to Google's YouTube service due to "objectionable content." A day earlier, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked access to the social networking site Facebook, following a court order. More than 450 web links were unavailable; including certain pages on Wikipedia and Flickr, as the government widened a crackdown on material [...]
San Bruno (ip-192.com): Google's YouTube service hits 2 billion views per day. After 5 years in existence, the service is available in over 200 countries. YouTube now supports High Definition and 3D. With 2 billion pageviews per day, the service reaches almost twice as many viewers as all three major U.S. television networks combined. While [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): A new tool on a Google website shows how often governments request private user data or demand that content is removed. In the six months ending December 31, 2009, Google and YouTube received more than 10,000 requests from courts and government agencies around the world. Topping the list of data requests is [...]
San Bruno (ip-192.com): YouTube has a new look and feel: The user interface is more streamlined and tries to make navigating the site easier. Clips appear in categories from Entertainment to Science & Technology to Most Viewed. The old five-star rating system is replaced by a simple "like" or "dislike" feature. After a year of [...]
Mountain View (ip-192.com): Internet users in China experience new disruptions when they try to use Google’s search engine. Queries are dropped even for innocent searches that have not been censored before. Several media reports indicate that almost all searches on Google initiated by users in mainland China seem to be blocked now. Google confirmed that [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google and Dish Network Corp. are testing a new television programming search feature, several news outlets report. New TV set-top boxes that run on Google's Android software will allow users to find programming on the Dish Network and videos on websites, including Google’s YouTube. While currently in a testing phase, Google seems [...]
