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Google home page gets a makeover

A new year, a new look for Google’s home page. In a bid to simplify the page and improve user experience, the titans of search are rolling out one of the biggest home page changes to date. The revamp takes away the black bar that currently runs horizontally across the top of the Google home page and replaces it with a grey logo. When a user clicks or highlights the new logo, a drop-down menu appears offering seven alternative services to the site’s search page, such as Gmail and YouTube. Experts are speculating the change was designed to promote more of Google’s businesses while still maintaining its preferred uncluttered and plain minimalist front page. A spokesperson for Google said that the roll-out was also designed to improve user-experience

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Facebook’s photo fail

It appears that not even the man who created Facebook is immune to the social network’s increasingly infamous security issues. Instructions on how to circumvent Facebook’s privacy settings have been floating around cyberspace for a couple of weeks. However, the security glitch has now come to wider attention as images from Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg’s private photo albums were released to the world. Users discovered after reporting a public profile picture as containing inappropriate content they were offered the chance to report additional photographs by the same user. Facebook then presented them with a thumbnail gallery of private images that otherwise would have been invisible to the person making the complaint. Those pictures could easily be enlarged by making a simple change in the browser address bar and downloaded. By using this method, anonymous intruders were able to access private photos of Zuckerberg, his girlfriend Priscilla Chan and their puppy, Beast. Fourteen candid images were published on the image site Imgur under the headline: “It’s time to fix those security flaws Facebook.” Facebook has now issued a fix for the loophole. In a statement, the social network said: “Earlier today, we discovered a bug in one of our reporting flows that allows people to report multiple instances of inappropriate content simultaneously.

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Google DoubleClick Acquisition to Proceed

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has given Google clearance of its planned acquisition of display ad serving technology and services provider, DoubleClick Inc., in response to its definitive agreement to acquire the company for $3.1 billion in cash.

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Yahoo! Funds Apache Software Foundation

Yahoo! Inc., as a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will include a financial sponsorship of the non-profit, volunteer-run foundation.

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NBC Partnership Debuts, with Search Engine

CarZoomRochester.com search engine has debuted the launch of an exclusive partnership with WHEC-TV NBC, the local URL consumer website, to provide instant access to selling prices.

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