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We literally didn’t.

A local planning application indicates that Google is targeting Dublin, Ireland, for its first standalone retail store.

The application states that the store would sell “Google merchandise” to the public, and cover about 1,323 square feet of space in the Montevetro office block. While Google has an employee-only store in its California headquarters and a corner of Currys and PC World in London dedicated to selling laptops, this would be the first stand-alone Google retail location.

Is Google Planning To Open A Retail Store In Ireland? (Rick Marshall, Digital Trends)

Google has angered Twitter and faces accusations of “warping” its search results and breaking antitrust rules by boosting posts from its Google+ social network in its standard search results.

The changes, which are presently only being implemented in the US via google.com, mean that when people search for information, particularly about individuals, while logged in to Google+, results from the social network will be prominently displayed on the first page of results along with other results from the wider web.

Google Search Changes Are Bad For The Internet, Says Twitter (Guardian)

Today’s Google Doodle recipient. He left us hanging.

Alexander Calder (1898-1976), whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time. Born in a family of celebrated, though more classically trained artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art. He began by developing a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially “drew” three-dimensional figures in space.

The Calder Foundation

In social media, Facebook has been the leader everyone imitates for several years. Google (GOOG) tried a few times and came up short. But this month, that changed: Google+ is a formidable social media platform that matches Facebook in many ways and surpasses it in others, like realtime group video chat. Facebook quickly responded with its own video chat service, but couldn’t match Google’s. This back and forth is likely to continue for some time.

The question facing Google+ is whether the positive reception that beta users are having over the social service will cross over to a mainstream audience already familiar with Facebook. If better privacy is in fact a big factor for many people, then Google+ could easily become so popular enough that Facebook will be forced to improve its own privacy policies.

In the Google-Facebook race, privacy will determine the winner (CNN Money)

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