#Google Contacts

Google Contacts has recently gotten an update in-app that makes it easier to check the backup and sync status of your contacts saved on a Google account. It includes the total number of contacts stored to a user’s Google account and latest time they were synced to the web. These are surely welcome additions over the previous system, where these settings were buried deep within Google Play Services. These updates are rolling out now as part of Google Contacts version 4.49 for Android. While the changes are minor, they contribute to a cleaner UI and make managing contacts across multiple devices more streamlined. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Read more in our articles including "Google Contacts app, web syncing status now easier to check" and "The day Google broke the Web".