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Street view of Google offices

October 17, 2012 by buzfairy 1 Comment

This is such a cool video. I use google maps’ street view all the time, but this is the first time I see it used indoors.

The video takes a tour around some Google offices and servers, in one of their many “data centers”. The servers shown are huge and many, the buildings looks like a huge industrial factory.

If you want to explore the center even further just click on this [maps link] to check out the street view on your own.

Update: I updated the post with some beautiful pictures of Google’s data center, published by the Daily Mail [link].

Filed under Technology Tagged with Google

Google is Changing its Privacy Policy Starting March 1

January 25, 2012 by buzfairy 1 Comment

Google just announced that it will be changing both its privacy policy and terms of service, effective March 1st 2012:

One policy, one Google experience

We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google.

This stuff matters, so please take a few minutes to read our updated Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service now. These changes will take effect on March 1, 2012.

Click [here] for more details.

Filed under Internet, Online Tagged with Google

The Buzfairy Blog is Now On Google+

July 9, 2011 by buzfairy 4 Comments

And as you can see, I still don’t have any contacts. I tried searching the names of the bloggers I know, but couldn’t find any. Add me if you’re on google+…. Mine is called “BuzFairy Blog”.

Filed under Blogs, Friends, Personal Tagged with Google

Wael Ghoneim breaks down on TV وائل غنيم يبكي على التلفزيون

February 8, 2011 by buzfairy 7 Comments

His tears moved egyptians once more in Maydan ElTa7reer protests, read about it here.

Wael is Google’s ME Marketing amanger, who was arrested on Jan 27, shortly after Egypt’s rise. He was detained against his will and blindfolded, without informing his family or friends.

Filed under News, Politics, Youtube Tagged with Arrest, Google, Maydan Al-Ta7reer, Police, Wael Ghoneim

Best Egyptian picture ever أحلى صورة لأحداث مصر

February 3, 2011 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

Picture taken from Kiafan 5.

Filed under Beautiful, Egypt, Pictures Tagged with Google, Twitter, Yahoo

How to tweet in Egypt with no internet by using land phones

February 1, 2011 by buzfairy 3 Comments

Google scientists worked all weekend to find a way for the people of Egypt to tweet in Twitter without using the internet. They came up with a way that only requires land phones:

People in Egypt can call any of these three phone numbers: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855.
They record a voice message that will get automatically converted into a tweet that starts with #Egypt.

Filed under Egypt, News, Phones, Politics, Technology Tagged with Google, Twitter

Google Doodles the Flintstones

September 30, 2010 by buzfairy 4 Comments

Google is celebrating the Flintstones 50th anniversary. This is great. The Flintstones is one of my, and many’s, favorite childhood cartoons. I hate how these days cartoons are so bad and rude, and would love to see the old cartoons on reruns on TV.

Older related posts are here, here, here, here, and here.

Filed under American, Cartoon, Comedy, Cute, Funny, Kids, Old Cartoon, TV Tagged with flintstones, Google, Google Doodle

Very hilarious Google translator

September 4, 2010 by buzfairy 4 Comments

I tried Google’s translation service over a post of mine. This is what I got. I couldn’t stop myself from laughing:

Here is my original post:

Filed under Arab, Arabian, Blogs, Funny, Personal, Random, Silly, Technology Tagged with Blogs, BuzFairy, English, Funny, Google, personal, Random, Silly

Vanity Fair’s most influential 100 people

September 2, 2010 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

Vanity Fair just published its list of the 100 most influential people in the information age. And you will not believe who is # 1. Let me give you a hint, it’s not Bill Gates, it’s not Steve Jobs… It’s actually the founder of Facebook!!

Here are the top 10, you can read all the rest over at Vanity Fair:

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. With 500 million members, it’s not difficult to see why Mark Z is #1.
Steve Jobs of Apple. His huge influence and impact on both the music and smart phone businesses put him at #2.
Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt of Google. These 3 guys own the most popular site on the net, and their Android system phones are expected to surpass iPhone by 2012.
Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation. Ownerships include print media, as well as Fox TV & film.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Need we say more on why he’s on the list? He single handedly revolutionized online shopping, wether books, ebooks, or Kindle e-reader.
Bernard Arnault of LVMH. He’s the richest man in Europe, and was able to steer the luxury empire in the roughest financial crises in decades.
Michael Bloomberg the Mayor of New York. In addition to his vast fortune, he was able to achieve tremendous success as mayor, with reduced crime and improved education.
Larry Ellison of Oracle. His software practically dominates the world, plus he and 37 other billionairs have promised to donate half their fortunes to charity. Well Done Larry, along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter. With 124 million users and a billion tweets a month, they sure deserve to be on the top 10 list.
John Malone. His media empire includes Expedia and Sirius internet radio among other things.

I know some of my friends will be over the moon with this list. One person in particular is so in love with LV, Expedia, Apple, and Facebook all at once. Knock yourself out with the list R.