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Iran may blow up undersea internet cable

Emmanuel Adelakun @ogbenishyna44 (1739) 26 Mar

Are you worried that Iran is threatening to blow up the undersea internet cables? These cables still carry more than 90% of the world's internet transmission and they can be easily damaged if the ongoing war does not end. Big...

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Google Storage Full? Open More Accounts?

MeMoneyAndLove @abhi_bangal (7679) • Ahmednagar, India 29 Jun

Google gives us a cool 15 GB of storage. We can use this for Drive, Photos, Gmail, etc and a lot more. But these days, the clarity and the resolution of photos and videos is so high that, 15 GB just flies away. I've seen people...

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Google Went Crazy...

DE @DaddyEvil (174281) • United States 15 Jun

I woke up yesterday and wondered what time it was... I have blackout curtains in my bedroom so looking at the windows doesn't help figure it out. My phone is always beside me so I picked it up. In the upper left hand corner, it...

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confusion

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Weak Google Fu

Primo @programmerprimo (174) • United States 17 May 25

I moved into a new apartment, and was excited to find that Google Fiber was available in my area. I called and got an account started then went to one of their locations to pick up the equipment and got it all set up at home. It...

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CEO Packages Never Seize to Amaze Me

MeMoneyAndLove @abhi_bangal (7679) • Ahmednagar, India 6 May 25

The pays for high profile company CEOs is an interesting topic in itself. Laxman Narasimhan, Satya Nadell, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Bob Iger, and Jensen Huang are all earning less than Jim Anderson, who is Coherent's CEO. It's...

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Monopolies On Line

kay lar @jaylar (3672) • Kingston, Jamaica 22 Apr 25

Most you use Firefox, Chrome or Edge. You search using Google. You have Facebook accounts. Years ago, when the Internet became commercially available, that would be 1990 for some, 1995 for Jamaica, the ability to hack into...

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Google and AI

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 13 Feb 25

Stunning answers is what I see these days when I pose questions to Google Everything is thorough. Who was takaing care of this all this while is not known to me but suffice it to say I am satisfied with what I read. At the same...

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questions answered

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We Need to Flood Google About the Mistake

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 13 Feb 25

It seems that Google had turned into Trumpsters. They have changed the area on Google Maps to read 'Gulf Of America' instead of what it should be 'Gulf of Mexico'. We need to flood the site with emails bringing attention to their...

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Have you experienced unnecessary detours while using Google maps?

Anish Asokan @RevivedWarrior (3853) • India 2 Feb 25

I was doing a long drive yesterday of almost 9 hours back home. It was mostly driving the highway. Almost 70 kms away from home, Google maps showed a detour, in fact a new path to me. Considering the fact there were constructions...

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Google Down

kay lar @jaylar (3672) • Kingston, Jamaica 9 Oct 24

Those of us who have written on line know the devastation caused by Google's Panda. This program was created to exclude items written on paying publishing sites. The intention was that Google would label paying sites as...

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content farm

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Do You Have a Google GMail Account?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222285) • United States 28 Sep 24

I switched to Kinetic/Windstream for our internet; and I have now found out that they don't have email anymore. The last time I had Windstream. they still had dial-up. With Google GMail I have been unable to find the spot in...

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Where to find crochet patterns?

UmiNoor @UmiNoor (4521) • Malaysia 2 Aug 24

I love to crochet in my spare time. But I don't design my own patterns. I have to look for patterns. Sometimes I find them in books or I would just google them. If you crochet or knit, where do you usually find the patterns for...

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Yay for Google

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jul 24

I’ve been rabbiting on about a country and western night that we’re attending tonight. I had bought a kid’s cowboy outfit at a two-dollar type store but the hat is really too small and looks a bit ridiculous. I found a hat of...

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I Come Back Here in MyLot

MelthySow @MelthySow (175) • Indonesia 9 Apr 24

I tried typing my name in Google search and I found my name was on the MyLot page. I've clicked on it and tried to confirm my password because I haven't remembered it for a long time and MyLot reminded me again about my password....

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Google Mail is not going to be shut down

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 23 Feb 24

A rumor swept the internet yesterday that Google would stop using G Mail. It seemed highly unlikely to be true yet reputable people and accounts shared potss on social media that it would indeed close. Its not closing down folks,...

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Internet Searching

CAPirani Photography & Art @capirani (2817) • United States 31 Jan 24

When you want to search something on the internet, what search engine do you use? Is it Google? Bing? Go Duck Go, or some other one? Do you know that no two search engines will give you the same results? There is also the...

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Google is taking money

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 27 Dec 23

For every account one gets 15GB of free storage For anything more than that they now want money, I have no plans to increase the storage as I have managed with 15 GB for years now. It is the first time that I see Google in...

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payment for additional storage

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Is There a Way to Contact Google ~ Aside From 'Snail-Mail?'

Deep-Or-Whimsical @DeepOrWhimsical (40) • United States 27 Nov 23

So, I've been trying to retrieve my password info for one of my Google accounts; and I keep getting a message stating that Google does not have enough information.. and I do not get an option to use my alternate email address, to...

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I Was So Bummed and Then...!

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 21 Nov 23

I looked and looked. I went through my stack of 'stuff' on my shelf. It had to be there. Nope, not there. I tried a dozen different ways to find it on Google. Nothing came up. Where was my hard copy? I was just beginning to resign...

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short story

eugene field

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Do you like those extra features that send you unsolicited notifications?

Fleur @Fleura (34935) • United Kingdom 26 Oct 23

I’m not sure if I’m describing the things I mean correctly, but for example on my phone Google photos sends me regular prompts to ‘remember’ things from a year ago or whenever. I can see this might have a certain appeal, when it...

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