Israeli official protests Google’s use of ‘Palestine’

Published on May 6, 2013

A senior Israeli official called on Google to reconsider its decision to change the wording on its services and products from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."

Google edition adopts ‘Palestine’

Published on May 3, 2013

Google has changed the title on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from "Palestinian Territories" to "Palestine."

Are You Dating Your Cell phone? — Or Your Laptop? Try being Mindful

By Nicole Behnam
Published on April 12, 2013

Google Opens campus Tel Aviv

Published on March 28, 2013

Startup spaces in Tel Aviv are getting to be a dime a dozen, but the prime minister doesn’t attend the opening of every single one.

Feeding Our Workers

By Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Published on March 19, 2013

Ellison is world’s richest Jew, new Forbes billionaire list shows

Published on March 4, 2013

Oracle's Larry Ellison is the world's richest Jew, according to Forbes' annual world billionaires list for 2013.

More than anything else, Israelis wanted to know “How to make money” in 2012

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on December 31, 2012

Request by Arab-Israeli political, religious figures to block anti-Muslim movie denied

Published on September 20, 2012

A Jerusalem court denied a request filed by Arab-Israeli lawmakers and mayors, as well as religious leaders, that would have required Google to remove an anti-Muslim movie from YouTube and block all Israeli access to it.

San Diego Jewish teen wins Google science prize

Published on July 30, 2012

An eighth-grader at the San Diego Jewish Academy won a science prize at the second annual Google Science Fair competition.

French groups drop suit against Google

Published on June 28, 2012

French groups have settled a lawsuit accusing Google of violating French anti-racism laws because of a function that they say perpetuated anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv on new Google project

Published on June 5, 2012

Jerusalem's Old City and parts of historic Tel Aviv are featured in Google's new "World Wonders Project," although Jerusalem is not included under the Israel category.

Google donating N.Y. office space to Cornell-Technion school

Published on May 21, 2012

Google will donate office space to the new applied science graduate school of Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

French group suing Google for Jewish auto-complete searches

Published on May 1, 2012

A French anti-discrimination group is taking Google to court for offering to search if celebrities are Jewish.

Google Street View in Israel to go online

Published on April 16, 2012

Google's Street View in Israel will go online next week.

Don't be naked

By Marty Kaplan
Published on January 30, 2012

Entertainment executives are fond of saying that no matter what happens with technology, what will always matter most is good storytelling. What they don’t say — but what they’ve begun to wonder — is whether those stories may be on the way to becoming loss leaders and if the content business is quietly being transformed into the data mining business.

Google to open Israeli startup incubator

Published on November 15, 2011

Google will open a startup incubator in Israel.

Google launches Street View in Israel

Published on September 13, 2011

Google launched its Street View project In Israel.

Google street view OK’d for Israel

Published on August 21, 2011

The Google street view map service will come to Israel after being granted permission by the country's Justice Ministry.

Made in Israel: Google’s new toolbar feature

Published on August 17, 2011

Google released a new toolbar feature that was developed in Israel.

Israeli mission to moon for Google contest demands appeal to local donors

By Ryan Torok
Published on July 19, 2011

Kfir Damari, Yonatan Winetraub and Yariv Bash were in Los Angeles last week in an effort to raise $10 million for the construction of a robot that they hope to send to the moon.

College Humor roasts Facebook (and bashes Myspace)

By JewishJournal.com
Published on June 2, 2011

The roast of Facebook (and a little myspace bashing)

Google ordered to stop recommending anti-Semitic sites

Published on May 19, 2011

A court in Buenos Aires has ordered Google to stop recommending anti-Semitic and racist websites to users. The injunction issued May 17 comes following a complaint filed by several Jewish organizations. The decision came on the World Day of the Internet.

Yad Vashem, Google announce joint archive project

Published on January 26, 2011

A joint project between Yad Vashem and Google will make public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs easier. Israel's national Holocaust museum and archive and the Google search engine on Wednesday announced that they had made 130,000 photos and documents from the museum's archive available online. The photos can now be searched directly from Google using regular key words.

With eye on long term, Israel plans for ‘leapfrog’ growth to stem brain drain

Published on January 18, 2011

It was at a conference 15 years ago in the raw months following Yitzhak Rabin's assassination that an unlikely Israeli trio -- a young Navy officer, a leading businesswoman and a senior bureaucrat -- hatched a plan for Israel's future. It wasn't exactly a plan for the future, but a plan to plan for the country's future in an entirely new way: one focused on long-term strategic thinking to propel Israel into the world's top 15 socioeconomic powers. Last week, the goal of becoming a nation with one of the highest GDPs -- the type of dramatic "leapfrog" growth that would see incomes and other quality-of-life metrics boosted across the socioeconomic divide -- went from an idea to headline news when the goal was adopted as policy by the Israeli government.

Israel to participate in pilot YouTube project

Published on November 17, 2010

Israel will take part in a pilot program to encourage Israeli advertising agencies to allocate more resources to advertising on YouTube.

Just Like the Internet You See in the Movies

By Marty Kaplan
Published on August 16, 2010

No Web sites that choke your browser. No waiting for YouTube clips to buffer. No email attachments too big to send. No files that take forever to download. No “Loading – please wait” messages, or spinning beach balls, or slowwwwly lengthening bars meant to tame your mounting impatience.

Google removes Nazi-themed Android apps

Published on August 16, 2010

Google removed Nazi-related applications from its Android downloads following protests from Jewish users.

I’m feeling lucky—Google searches gone bad

By The Web Guy
Published on August 21, 2008

Zell it, Sam; Cool it, Orit; 40 million Frenchmen

Published on August 7, 2008

" . . . In Fairfax High School, I had a brilliant and wise instructor of advanced placement European History who used to say: 'Do not put all your faith in one man. For surely he will disappoint you.' And he also said: '40 million Frenchmen can be wrong' . . ."

Go ahead, gogle me

By Orit Arfa
Published on July 30, 2008

If someone's life is not worth at least one page of Google search results, does that mean he hasn't accomplished or written anything of enough import to be broadcast online?

Dating today is a menage a tech

Published on July 24, 2008

No more. The world has changed and so has dating. Today, when we date someone, it's no longer just the two of us. No. Now, it's always a threesome: you, him and that all-intrusive technology. It's what I call a "Menage a Tech."

Moses: I Googled myself and all I got was 31,700,00 results

By JewishJournal.com
Published on December 16, 2007

How much do eight chicken breasts weigh and other questions

By JewishJournal.com
Published on September 27, 2007

E-mail gives Jews the ‘Heebie Jeebies’

By JewishJournal.com
Published on August 7, 2007

My Superpower: Datedar

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on July 27, 2006

U.S. Firms Kowtow to China Censorship

By Martin Kaplan
Published on February 9, 2006

If an American enters "Li Zhi" or "Shi Tao" in the search engine at Yahoo! News, more than 400 stories turn up, none of them flattering to Yahoo! But those articles won't appear if you search for those words, or countless others deemed subversive by officials, on a computer in China.

The Tangled Web

By Amy Klein
Published on January 12, 2006

It's probably old news to report that there are specialized Jewish search engines -- there have been since the earliest days of the Web -- but there are still new ones emerging.

Googling Anti-Semitism

By Joe Eskenazi
Published on March 18, 2004

Online searchers punching the word "Jew" into the Google search engine may be surprised at the results they get.