According to a BBC News report, forty mentally ill patients have broken out of a mental hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. The patients reportedly escaped by overpowering guards at the facility after a protest about their medications. Kenyan police have told …

A team of archaeologists has found a 600-year-old Chinese coin that was buried on the Kenyan island of Manda. Researchers say the find proves China and Africa were trading before European countries began their expansion across the globe. “This finding …

People on YouTube are calling this clip racist. It’s not. But I can see how one might think that if they just kind of watched the first few seconds and didn’t really think about it. Depressing is really the right …

A leading community organizer in Kenya has been using Twitter to help rally people to come to the aid of those in need. And no, to clarify with you flat earth-believers out there, I’m not talking about President Obama. I’m …

How does Google populate its search engine results? A process of bots crawling links to discover/refresh/update content that’s on the web. Granted, this is an elementary explanation, but it sums up the process. There are ways to block Google’s army …

We’ve often teased YouTube; at times, it seems like the site’s only purpose is to showcase musical losers and kicks to the crotch.  The crisis in Kenya has caused people to use YouTube for some much more serious reasons, though, and the site’s leaders have acknowledged its role.

At SES Latino 2007 there was, as you might expect, a focus on the search market as it pertains to Central and South America; representatives from both Google and Yahoo see a huge potential for growth in the region.

Starbucks, McDonalds, and Google – I’m starting to think that, by 2040 or so, there will be at least one building per company on every square mile of this planet.  The latest bit of evidence supporting this theory is Google’s plan to expand into Kenya.

Google has a habit of showing up where you least expect it; from a hub in Ireland to server farms in North Carolina, the company isn’t afraid to venture out of its Mountain View home.  Now Google has made two new deals, and both the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure and the Kenya Education Network should benefit from its willingness to travel.