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Louis Gray snapped a photo of a Tesla at the GooglePlex, main Google offices. The license plate is SKYPE. Yep - the company Microsoft owns. What was it doing there? I have no idea.He posted this on Twitter and said "Meanwhile, this SKYPE license plate at one of our Google buildings has got to be some kind of elaborate troll."This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers. … [Read more...] about Spotted At GooglePlex: A SKYPE License Plate On Tesla

At one of the new Google buildings at the GooglePlex campus in Mountain View, California, they have a new section where they hang license plates from various US states. I am not sure why? Maybe it is near the Google Maps street view stuff? Anyway, this was posted on Instagram.This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers. … [Read more...] about Google Building License Plate Art

Forget it, Las Vegas Strip. Move over Area 51. Perhaps cruising up the Extraterrestrial Highway will be Nevada’s latest tourist attraction, Google auto-driving cars sporting new autonomous vehicle license plates. Google has been working to get official approval to test its self-driving cars in several US states. They’ve operated in California, where so far they’ve been deemed legal by existing laws. But Nevada just became the first state to give official sanction to testing such vehicles. Approval To Test, Supervision Still Required This doesn’t mean that the cars will be out there driving themselves without controlled supervision by an actual driver. As this AP story notes, Nevada requires there be two operators in the car, one behind the wheel. In California, the cars have routinely run with only one driver behind the wheel. Recently, the driver was even allowed to be in the passenger side, as Steve Mahas — who is blind — was behind the wheel as … [Read more...] about Nevada Approves Google Auto-Driving Cars, Issues “AU” Plates With Infinity Symbol

As our culture continues to move online, personal information about us that previously may have only been seen by our friends and family is increasingly shared in public spaces on the internet. What can you do if you search for your name on Google and find information you’d rather keep private? Or find yourself or home in Google Street View and want it blurred? Read on for instructions on how to get it removed. NOTE: If you want content removed from Google that’s located on a site that you do own, see Removing Pages from Google: A Comprehensive Guide for Content Owners for details. Why Google Generally Won’t Remove Your Personal Information Google’s core product, web search, simply indexes pages on the web and makes them available to searchers. Since Google doesn’t control the information on those pages, they will generally only remove them from their index if the site owner removes the pages from the site or uses standard methods of blocking the content … [Read more...] about How To Remove Your Personal Information From Google

That’s one of several pieces of the Swiss Federal Administrative Court decision handed down today, and the one that’s likely causing the most disappointment at Google. The company’s automated blurring technology blurs about 98-99% of faces and license plates, and Google recently argued that manual blurring of all Street View imagery would be prohibitively expensive. (Imagine, for example, if other countries followed suit with a similar demand.) Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, shared this statement after today’s decision: We have received the court’s verdict and are currently assessing its implications. We are very disappointed because Street View has proved to be very useful to millions of people as well as businesses and tourist organisations. More than one in four of the Swiss population has used it since the service launched in Switzerland. We’ll now take some time to consider what this means for Street View in Switzerland … [Read more...] about Swiss Court Demands 100% Anonymity In Google Street View Photographs