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Google Updates Homepage With Vigil Candle For Victims Of School Shooting

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http://techcrunch.com – In a show of solidarity with those grieving tonight over a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, Google placed a subtle vigil candle below its search box. Google’s graceful, yet poignant gesture speaks to the uniqueness of this particular tragedy. Earlier today, scores of citizens flooded the White House’s official online petition website, WeThePeople, calling for “immediate” gun control reform, in what could be the fastest petition ever for the site. And before that, a clip of a tearful Obama speaking about the incident went viral on the web. More a (IT news)

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Update: The petition has reached 25,000 signatures Almost immediately following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut, over 16,000 people have signed an official White House WeThePeople petition to “Immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress.” Signatures seem to be increasing rapidly in speed, in what could be the fastest petiti

I love the Internet so much. America’s netizens have demanded that President Obama consider building the legendary Star Wars Death Star and the White House has responded. Not surprising, they have thoughtfully rejected the request, claiming it would cost an estimated $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets”.

gun should be controlled. very sorry to this situation, my heart to go out to the families and friends who lost loved ones and to all those who were injured.

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Petition to launch all Google products & services in India

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Subject: Petition to request Google to launch All Google products & services in India as Google ignoring this 16% of world population.

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We love Google products since We have learned to be online.

Google today updated its Inside Search site, its homepage for all things search, with a handful of educational and interactive features that explain in layman’s terms how Google’s Search works. Did you know the web had over 30 trillion pages, by the way? Or that Google supports over 100 billion searches every month? Or that Google’s index is over 100 million gigabytes?

There is a new petition on the White House website We the People - Your Voice in Our Government, calling upon the President to "release a plan for dealing with the inevitable zombie apocalypse."

That this planning is necessary is made clear by such troubling questions as:

Quote:

If President Obama turns into a zombie, will Joe Biden become president, or wi

Hey people!

Folks over at the Archlinux forums have created the following petition:

White House Linux Migration Petition.

The petition has 18 signatures now, and needs 25000 by the end of April.

Considering the urgency for this, I did not bother checking if somebody already posted this here. I would urge all of you to sign the petition (apparently it is NOT limited to US residents only).

It may not have a cool name like “Siri,” but you can’t accuse Google’s Voice Search app of lacking personality. Or self-awareness, for that matter. In case you missed it, Google upgraded its iOS search app on Tuesday with improved voice search functionality – it’s the closest that iOS users can get to a “Google Now“-like experience.

Authorities in Europe today kicked off a fresh wave of scrutiny over Google’s privacy policy and called for changes to be made in how Google manages user data, calling Google’s scope “too large”, but they also stopped short of saying Google is acting illegally in how it manages privacy.