With Google's new Android app, you can help the company translate languages, understand handwriting and keep its shareholders happy. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Ever read about Tom Sawyer and the fence that needs to be whitewashed? Go ahead and Google it up for a while, because Google has a proposition for ya. Ever dreamed of experiencing the joys of ...

Crowdsource lets users perform “simple tasks” like translation validation or handwriting recognition to improve Google services. Google today updated the Android app with a new logo and other tweaks ...

Google has been known in the past to reward its users for trying its services, improving data, or even simply providing an opinion on some things. This type of goodwill is part of what draws some ...

There’s a ton of hidden data collection and processing that goes into powering and improving Google’s Maps, Translate, and Search services. In an attempt to gather even more data, Google has just ...