Over 1.2 billion people worldwide now use online social networks, and you might presume that Facebook is the biggest site in every country, with Americans being the most social-networking obsessed of all – but you’d be wrong.

It’s been less than a fortnight since they threw Social back into Search with their Search, Plus Your World product but Google are grabbing headlines once again, this time re-working their privacy policies and search algorithms.

Since the GoDaddy protests of last December, the seemingly innocuous terms SOPA and PIPA have been on the lips of tech-savvy individuals the world over.

The concept of cloud computing is nothing new, but its adoption by businesses as their sole method of operations is an idea that’s still greeted with trepidation.

We’re less than two weeks into the New Year and Google have already announced the first major movement of 2012 in the great social media war – social searches.