Calling Tuesday’s one-hour-and-forty-minute Gmail outage a “Big Deal,” Google has pinned the breakdown on some recent changes to the request routers that direct queries to the service’s web servers.

Google is to be sued for $15 million (£9 million) by an anonymous blogger who was unmasked by the internet search company.

With computer users spending ever longer periods of time online, themes are a popular way of customising the look and feel of the browser window.

Google has updated its Maps app for Android — perhaps the most vital, central app in the platform outside of the dialer itself — and fortunately for G1, Dream, and Magic users around the world, they’ve made the update available through the Android Market.

European privacy watchdogs have demanded that Google delete the original images behind its Street View service. The company has said it will comply with the demand in the “long term”.

Google Tuesday unveiled synchronization technology that supports Microsoft Outlook as the front end to Gmail, giving users an option to scrap Exchange on the back end while allowing users to keep their familiar desktop client.

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook provides synchronization for e-mail, calendar and contacts between Gmail and Outlook/Exchange. It is only available to users of Google Apps Premier, the company’s $50 per user corporate offering, and those using the Education (Edu) version.

The Google Chrome team is delivering on its promises to deliver Mac users a native version of the company’s browser. A developer version of Chrome for both Mac and Linux users was released Thursday night, but Google doesn’t want you to download the software.

It has been all over the news today that Google have introduced ‘time based search options’, which is pretty cool, but the article that I liked the most was the one over on mashable.com which argued that the Google announcement is very much in response to the threat of Twitter and other real-time search offerings: