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After the disaster in Japan, Google is launching tools designed to help loved ones locate information about family and friends in the affected areas.

Google has implemented a change to their search algorithm that is designed to combat what they perceive as "low quality" search results. Many of these results come from content mills.

The Android Developer's YouTube page has posted a video that visualizes the Android-powered devices that have been activated around the world since October 2008. It's captivating, hypnotizing and a little bit trippy.

Google has shown off a number of possible designs for their Chrome web browser, one of which looks to do away with the address bar by hiding it from view.

Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.

Ancient fissures left by long-absent water coursing over the Cydonian Plains of Mars? Dessicating petroglyph in Lascaux's trove of Paleolithic cave art? Or paint drying on an old board? Answer after the jump.

Google goes for quiet comprehensiveness; Apple chooses charisma. Which strategy ensures success?

Adam Rothstein ponders hardware betas, connections between the world and the cloud, and products that aren't products, in the second post reviewing Google's Cr-48 Chrome Notebook.

The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space.