• Google and Walmart Team Up To Offer Online Shopping with Your Voice

    Google and Walmart Team Up To Offer Online Shopping with Your Voice

    You can already shop online using one of Amazon’s devices that supports Alexa.  But now Google has teamed up with Walmart to provide the same kind of service.  Of course, they want you to use Google Home, but you get the picture.  And this makes a lot of sense, considering that Google doesn’t have an…

  • Google Pays an Estimated $3 Billion To Stay as Default Search on iOS

    Google Pays an Estimated $3 Billion To Stay as Default Search on iOS

    Google is, hands down, the go-to search engine for millions of people world wide.  So it only makes sense that Google wants to be in the hands of everyone with an iPhone.  But did you ever stop to think about how much this costs Google?  It’s estimated to be somewhere around $3 billion.  Yes, that’s…

  • The History Behind Today’s Hip Hop Google Doodle

    The History Behind Today’s Hip Hop Google Doodle

    How many times have you seen the Google Doodle and wondered where it came from?  I sometimes know just by looking at them, but most of the time I have no idea.  Which leads me to the story behind today's Google Doodle.  On August 11, 1973 there was a part at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in…