Two exhibitions which have been supported by Google will be opened to the public during the coming three years. The exhibitions are being funded by Google, and the search giant hopes that youngsters will be inspired by the history of computer technology.

The partnership with London’s Science Museum is part of an initiative which Google announced earlier in the year in an attempt to encourage the scientists of the future. Google has invested $12 million into six museums in the United States and one in the UK. According to Michael Jones from Google Earth, the company is aware that funding isn’t enough to inspire children, which is (more…)

In the New Year, Hillingdon Council will become the first local authority to change to Google Apps in the UK. Over the coming four years, the local authority expects to cut its desktop PC maintenance costs, saving £2.98 million. Hillingdon local authority employees, all 3,500 of them, will start using the web-based business applications from Google early in 2012. The applications include documents, calendar, email and word processing.

According to the local authority, the cloud-based apps from Google will help the workforce work together and improve internal (more…)

A Singapore data centre will become Southeast Asia’s first, according to Google executives. An investment of $120 million will be made in an effort to increase operations in Asia. The data centre is expected to be completed by early 2013, and will become the third in (more…)

Thursday December 15 2011 saw Google announce details of the year’s most popular searches from the millions of queries it is used for each day. Always interesting, and sometimes thought provoking reading, SEO’s and marketers will no doubt pore over them and draw their own conclusions.

The top five UK searches comprised Facebook, YouTube, Hotmail, eBay and Google.

Though no details are available, it is likely the searches relating to the top two (more…)