The impressive Google+ statistics highlighted by the Google CEO Larry Page during the company’s quarterly earnings report last week has revealed that there has been a two-fold increase, to 90 million, in the number of Google+ members quarter-on-quarter.

In what came as a disquieting surprise for most investors, Internet search giant Google Thursday reported weaker-than-projected results for the 2011 fourth quarter, largely due to lower advertising prices and the debt woes that hit Europe.

In an attempt to bring on increased consistency to its Android platform in order to enhance its overall usability, Google has introduced a new set of design and style guidelines for the latest Android OS iteration – the Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) version.

After having recruited Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber to promote its Chrome browser, Google has now plunged headlong into the TV advertising arena by recruiting the Muppets for promoting Google+ Hangouts on the TV.

In a move which implies that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) will not be "going Google" even after attempts spanning more than two years, the City of Los Angeles has shelved its plans, pertaining to the LAPD's shift to Google's hosted email and office application platform, on the grounds that the service fails to meet some specified FBI security requirements.

In his Wednesday speech at the LeWeb conference in France, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt - who is famous for making very high-sounding predictions - spoke about his company's big plans for Google TV, saying that he envisions the product to be embedded in the majority of new TVs which will hit the markets in summer next year.

In a move which marks a strategic expansion of Google's indoors mapping technology, the Internet search giant, in partnership with Mall of America (MOA), has recently announced a new project - the Google Maps for Android 6.0
- for the Android-powered handsets.