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  • Blogs

    April 1, 2013

    Cesar Chavez vs. Jesus Christ: Google Weighs In

    Cesar Chavez was no saint, but he did do the very Christian thing when he saw an entire class of people, Latino and Filipino farm workers, suffering in slum living conditions, putting in grueling hours under the sun, getting paid illicit wages, and soaking in pesticides in Central Valley fields. He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2013

    Five Los Angeles Parking Secrets and 111 Places to Park (Google Map!)

    (Also contributing to this report were Elisa Losson, Jennifer Swann, Ali Trachta and Ben Westhoff.) You know what sucks? Circling a block for twenty minutes, burning the gas in your car and watching someone slip into a space right as you turn the corner to claim what you dreamed was yours. As Los ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2013

    Google Art Project's Crazy Bloopers Become an Art Show in Echo Park

    In the race to see which high-tech super-company is the creepiest and most Orwellian, Google has recently pulled far ahead of the rest of the pack. Its various tools, from Google Maps to Gmail to Google , have become so powerful and indispensable that they are literally everywhere you look. The comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2012

    9 Silicon Beach Office Buildings and What They Say About Their Companies

    See also: *More tech stories from L.A. Weekly *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Since the arrival of Google in Venice last year, westside beach communities like Santa Monica, Playa Vista and others have seen an influx of tech companies, startups, investors and soft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2012

    100 Favorite Dishes: The Google Map

    Want to find which of our 100 Favorite Dishes is closest to you? Not that you don't know where Lukshon or Chichen Itza or Hatfield's or Animal are, but still -- it's nice to know that the folks at Cupertino Mountain View are still hard at work controlling the world. Check out our Google Map. Turn th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Why is California So Liberal, You Ask?

    Why is California so liberal, you ask? Why is it so broke? Some folks are having a little fun with Google's autocorrect search function, finding that top questions about our beloved Golden State included ones that weren't so flattering. You can try it yourself by typing "Why is California so" in yo ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 5, 2012

    L.A.'s Best Arts & Culture Apps

    Why is California so liberal, you ask? Why is it so broke? Some folks are having a little fun with Google's autocorrect search function, finding that top questions about our beloved Golden State included ones that weren't so flattering. You can try it yourself by typing "Why is California so" in yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2012

    Google's Los Angeles Map Gets 3D, 'Flyover' Imagery For Smartphones: VIDEO

    Google just unveiled 3D maps that let you virtually fly over Los Angeles and Long Beach. The cool visuals, however, aren't available for iPhone and iPad users yet; they're only good for Google's own Android system for now. According to the company, L.A. and Long Beach are among 15 American cities ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2012

    Train's "Drive By": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Train's "Drive By" History: San Francisco band Train got famous singing about a confusing girl named Virginia and then they got SUPER famous singing about ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    The Google Cafe: A Look Inside the Venice Binoculars

    There is a somewhat mythical place where engineers and food obsessives converge. A place that isn't exactly a club, nor is it a restaurant, but it is Fort-Knox level difficult to get in to and they certainly do serve pretty terrific food. For free. It's the offices of Google. And if you like to eat, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 17, 2012

    Art Walk This Way

    There is a somewhat mythical place where engineers and food obsessives converge. A place that isn't exactly a club, nor is it a restaurant, but it is Fort-Knox level difficult to get in to and they certainly do serve pretty terrific food. For free. It's the offices of Google. And if you like to eat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Confirmed: Google Will Take Over Gold's Gym in Venice, Plus 170,000 Square Feet of Surrounding Real Estate

    Updated at the bottom: Google may work out some sort of sublet deal with Gold's, allowing it to stay in its historic location. And the jocks beat the nerds again! Originally posted May 14 at 5:30 p.m. Last week, the former owner of Gold's Gym in Venice leaked to Muscle Week that Google would be ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Is Google Buying Gold's Gym, Expanding Venice Digs Into Mountain View-Style Compound?

    For months, rumors have been rippling through the Venice real-estate crowd that Google might be buying up the iconic Gold's Gym on Hampton Drive, and possibly the Digital Domain building next door. And for months, we haven't been able to confirm. But Jason Stern, a local blogger who focuses on Veni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    L.A. Geeks Sue Google Over Bad Android Apps

    If it weren't for geeks keeping tech companies honest we'd still be using Windows 95 and paying AOL for dial-up. Two L.A. men, Dodd Harris and Stephen Sabatino, are seeking class-action status for a suit against Google. Their issue? The duo claims that some Google Android phone apps don't work, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    VIDEO: Google's Robotic Car Drives L.A. Senator Alex Padilla to His Press Conference

    Behold! Google's creepy new robotic car driving Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Los Angeles) to his press conference... on Google's creepy new robotic car. How convenient. Google cleared a huge hurdle to filling California's highways with its robo fleet yesterday, when Padilla introduced Senate Bill 1298 on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    System of a Down's "Chop Suey!": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: System of a Down's "Chop Suey!" History: "Chop Suey!" was the first single from System of a Down's 2001 album Toxicity . It's the first song that shows up ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    The Day The Internet Stopped

    See our piece on how Anonymous attacked Hollywood here. Get ready guys. Jan. 18 might become known in the future as the day the Internet went dark. Several websites, including L.A.'s own Boing Boing, are vowing to go offline Wednesday to protest Congress' consideration of the Stop Online Piracy Ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Microsoft Is Poaching Engineers: With A Bacon Cart

    For some reason, Microsoft seems to think that experienced software engineers are difficult to find in this down economy, so it's trying to recruit talent from the Seattle offices of Amazon, Adobe and Google. The Seattle Times reports that the battle for skilled coders is being waged with free bacon ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Guisados: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    For some reason, Microsoft seems to think that experienced software engineers are difficult to find in this down economy, so it's trying to recruit talent from the Seattle offices of Amazon, Adobe and Google. The Seattle Times reports that the battle for skilled coders is being waged with free bacon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants 2011: The Google Map Start Your Engines (Literally) and Appetites

    ​ Welcome to this year's edition of our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants, thanks to Jonathan Gold, the many hardworking chefs of this town, and the folks at Mountain View, California. (That's the home of Google, not a new pop-up restaurant.) Above we have a Google map of 2011's 99 restaurants, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    L.A. City Hall's Switch to Google Email a Mess: LAPD Balks Over Cloud Security Concerns

    Matt McGrath​The idea that the LAPD is going to store some of its sensitive information -- perhaps background on criminals and investigations, for example -- in "the cloud" has cops balking at the level of Google's email security. The city of L.A. decided last year to drop Novell's email ser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Google Aquires Zagat: Map Your Restaurant

    ​If there aren't presently a whole lot of great places to eat in and around Menlo Park, California, there will be soon. Or at least you'll be able to map them really well. Today Google announced that it is buying Zagat for an undisclosed amount. Founded by Tim and Nina Zagat 32 years ago, Z ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Facebook 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Has Google , Seems Like Kind of a Nice Guy

    Sanford Wallace via Google We almost forgive you.​"Someone's sneakiness is only fun when the joke isn't on me," reads self-proclaimed "spam king" Sanford Wallace's Google status from July 29. Ironic, right? Considering Wallace turned himself into the FBI a week later (today) after being indic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    California Loves Google Twice as Much as New York

    Our kinda girl.​What is it about Google that's so much more attractive to Californians than New Yorkers? Yes, the famed Googleplex is located in our nerdy nothern region (another reason not to secede, you freaks), with a chic southern satellite right here in Venice, and yes, we're all a bunc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    [UPDATED] All Hail the Chicken Car!

    Guzzle & NoshThe Chicken Car.​[Update: Even more advanced Google searches than the one we previously conducted reveal that the car was supposedly built by Steve Cantin of PetSitterVideos, who brought it to LA for use in a movie, where it was impounded, sold at auction and bought by race car dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Google Doodle Ignores Cinco de Mayo -- Again

    White as Larry Page's asscrack​It's one thing to brush off Cesar Chavez Day in favor of some old German corpse's 200th birthday (OK, fine, Robert Bunsen's burner is pretty nifty, as far as lab miracles go), but Cinco de Mayo? Damn. Google must really hate Mexicans. Even in the U.S., everyone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Home on the Range: Large Quantities of American Meat Infected With Drug-Resistant Bacteria

    Anthony Albright/flickr​ Google "meat," "bacteria," and "drug-resistant," and your Internet-gazing eyes will see some things that will make you want to hang up your steak knife. Recently, the Translational Genomics Research Institute published a study revealing some bad news about the bacteri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    USC VIDEO: Techies Pwn Google, Turn 'Gmail Motion' April Fool's Prank Into Reality

    YouTube​Updated after the jump: One of the USC techies shows us how to work real-life Gmail Motion. And it's ever radder than we thought. Google unleashed many a poke in the rib on April Fool's Day 2011. There was the Helvetica-turned-Comic Sans search -- a budding typophile's wet dream -- an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    WTF: On Cesar Chavez Day, Google Honors 200th Birthday of Robert Bunsen

    GoogleYes, that somehow spells "Google." Click here for nifty animated version.​Google has gotten pretty crazy with the home-page themes the last year or so -- high point being that Jules Verne steam-punk masterpiece -- and we're mostly supportive of the company's choice honorees. But today i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    'Parker' Parking App For Los Angeles Finds Open Spots in Real Time

    ​Most map apps rely on people to check in and tell you what's happening, where. An iPhone program to local open parking spaces called "Parker" takes the human element out of it: And during a demo this week in Hollywood, it seemed to prove itself. Spaces were quickly sought and found. What s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Google Launches New Recipe Search Engine

    ​ Sure we may have stacks of cookbooks on our shelves, and under our desks and on top of our refrigerators, but many if not most of us these days use Google to do a recipe search more often than we unstack our cookbooks. Today, that all gets a lot more fun, or at least (fun is a relative term) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Google Sued By Pasadena Techies For Copycatting Their Version Of Street View

    Google MapsBeautiful Pasadena, in stolen street view​Google wasn't the first to play god on street-level. At least, according to Pasadena company Veredi LLC, who is suing the Internet giant for infringing on five of its patents, which created a system for "creating, storing and utilizing image ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Robotic R. Kelly? Google Scribe Writes (sorta) Sexy Songs For You

    Robotic R. Kelly? Google Scribe Writes (sorta) Sexy Songs For You

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Santa Monica Consumer Group Alleges Google-Verizon Internet Plan Could Hinder Universal Internet Access

    ​A Santa Monica-based consumer watchdog group this week decried a proposal by Google and Verizon Communications that it says would put an end to net neutrality and create a system of pay-to-play haves and have-nots when it comes to internet access. " ... It sets up a two-tiered structure," sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    Google Vows To Cover Cost Of L.A. City Hall's Delays In Implementing Its 'Free' Email Service

    ​Following the bad press that continues to dog the city of Los Angeles' move to "free" Google email service, the computer giant agreed this week to cover the costs of delaying City Hall's transition to gmail, costs incurred mainly because the Los Angeles Police Department isn't happy with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    L.A. City Hall's Move To Google's Free Gmail So Far A FAIL; Could Cost Nearly $2 Million

    ​The city of Los Angeles was supposed to be using Google's Gmail webmail services by now, a controversial move announced nine months ago as a money saving measure that actually cost the city $1.5 million above it's old email contract with Novell. The migration from Novell's email services to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Update on Story LA Weekly Broke: Google Amps Up Its Music Blog Deletions

    Fred Noland​Almost a year ago, LA Weekly freelancer Jeff Weiss broke the story of Google's unilateral removal of music blogs who were accused of posting unauthorized MP3s on the company's Blogger software. Wrote Weiss on February 5, 2009: Google, the bloggers believe, has quietly changed t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Is Google Buzz Worth All the Buzz, or is it Shallow Wave?

    ​ Yesterday morning, after slurping up their morning coffee buzz, a number of Gmail users got their Google Buzz on, or they at least took a shot. Google's new social platform, which some say is the search engine giant's solution to Twitter and Facebook, is currently at the fore in tech talk. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Google Gets Marketing Mileage Out Of L.A. City's Move To Its Email System

    ​The city might be spending more of your money to switch to what is essentially a free email system, but multi-billion-dollar corporate giant Google is getting plenty from the deal: The company on Monday used L.A.'s switch to its email services as a marketing point, touting the move on its cor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Google, Bloggers Involved In Theft Says Rupert Murdoch

    RupertFox​Rupert Murdoch has been on a tear against Google, vowing to close off content he controls to the search giant and saying the web king, news aggregators and bloggers are all involved in "theft" of content created by journalism organizations like the ones he owns. His comments were ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Free Email To Cost City $1.5 Million Extra

    That city deal to take on Google's free email services as a cost-cutting measure will actually cost the taxpayers $1.5 million more next year than if City Hall would have stayed with its old email system.​In what seems like bizarre math, Google competitor Novell points out that the cost of trainin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    City To Spend $7.2 Million On Free Email

    The Los Angeles City Council today approved a $7.2 million deal to transition its internal-server-based email system to Google's free email services. The move was designed to save the city money, and apparently it will, but why is the council paying more than 7 mil to use the kind of gmail services ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    That New Model For Journalism? It's Here (And It Ain't Pretty)

    We've seen the future of journalism, and it's a little scary. The old way has organizations employing reporters and editors who, according to their training and experience, decide what's worth covering -- stories that hold politicians accountable, uphold shining examples of leadership, unearth wrong ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    A RAVING, UNCONFINED NUT

    We've seen the future of journalism, and it's a little scary. The old way has organizations employing reporters and editors who, according to their training and experience, decide what's worth covering -- stories that hold politicians accountable, uphold shining examples of leadership, unearth wrong ... More >>

  • LA Life

    August 13, 2009

    Running Joke: I Don’t Have a Car in L.A.

    We've seen the future of journalism, and it's a little scary. The old way has organizations employing reporters and editors who, according to their training and experience, decide what's worth covering -- stories that hold politicians accountable, uphold shining examples of leadership, unearth wrong ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Map Your Favorite Farmer: LA Times Launches Online Farmers Market Map

    Like colorful buoys across a vast ocean of bad food choices, farmers markets are what many Angelenos cling to between obligatory visits to chain grocery stores. Regardless of how well-organized the chef or home cook is--those Lima beans from McGrath Family Farm and heirloom tomatoes from Harry's Be ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    On Chandler, L. Ron and a treeless L.A.

    Plus: In defense of Michael Jackson

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Is Google Joining AT&T to Shut Up the Little Guy?

    We're fascinated to see a Variety journalist pick up on our last week's cover story, "Shutting Up the Little Guy," as a cautionary tale about not just what AT&T, Fabian Nunez and the Los Angeles City Council are doing to decimate local public access TV, but what might happen if net neutrality -- ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 20, 2007

    The Future Looks Slight

    Post-Space Age schemers and slacker robots

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Google Bombs

    Post-Space Age schemers and slacker robots

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