Among the many adventures that Google has announced at its annual developer conference this week is a multi-pronged plan to integrate Google Wallet into every aspect of your shopping life.
For Chrome users, a malware warning page popped up on Monday across many major websites — The New York Times, IMDb, and MSN Money, to name a few — due to so-called blacklisting bug inside Google's ad network.
Despite hiring a couple of linguists to get its new search engine to move "beyond 'Robospeak" and actually understand how people talk, Facebook hasn't actually taught Graph Search how to do that very well just yet. And that's a problem.
Thanks to citizen cartographers, Google was able to fill in what was what one of the last blank spaces on earth. And now we can see things like North Korean mass transit routes, the Pyongyang's parks and of course, the country's gigantic gulags.
On the occasion of Data Privacy Day, Twitter says it's giving away user information requested by the U.S. government... without a warrant. It's the continuation of a frightening trend that's as frightening as it is growing.
As if Google's launching a free Wi-Fi network in New York City earlier this month wasn't curious enough, now the search giant is asking the FCC for a license to create an "experimental radio service."
The Valley's biggest companies — and its biggest executives — used to handle their poaching problems with patent lawsuit threats, according to these juicy emails made public by a recent court filing.
Google beat Wall Street expectations with its fourth-quarter revenues of $14.42 billion, but the value of its ads continue to decline, an especially tricky problem with the company's new search competition from Facebook.
In his essay all about the evils of Google, Internet curmudgeon and Harper's publisher John R. MacArthur reveals that his googling skills need some improvement.
Facebook may have just released a major search product that many are saying "declares war" on Google, but Google CEO Larry Page doesn't sound all that worried about the new competition. Because who said Facebook and Google couldn't get along?
Despite all the laudatory praise for the idea of Facebook's new "third pillar," and despite nine years' worth of user data, early reviews indicate that Graph Search doesn't actually give great answers, and that the social network may have a data problem.
Google Maps has encountered a full-on roadkill scandal, and they're not taking this one, uh, lying down.
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Google and its very expensive lobbying efforts may have wiggled away from the Federal Trade Commission's anti-trust investigation without major penalties a week ago, but that doesn't mean the Europeans are going to take it easy on the search giant.
Flu season has hit hard particularly early and in a particularly nasty fashion this year, and now you can look at its path by way of Google searches.
The Google chief and former Governor Bill Richardson have one day left on their visit, and while their rescue mission appears unsuccessful, their goals for technological outreach have becoming increasingly clear — if equally fruitless.
While residents worry about what the Street View photos will do to property values, if Google's Staten Island project looks anything like what it did for New Orleans following Katrina, it will raise the kind of awareness the "forgotten borough" will need as it continues to rebuild.
Google snuck its way out of a two-year Federal Trade Commission antitrust probe without any major scratches this week in large part because it spent $25 million on lobbying Washington to believe it wasn't, in fact, being evil.
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Your dreams of a Google in North Korea (and the hilarious Google doodle potential therein) is not in jeopardy, but the State Department does not condone Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt's big trip to North Korea, at least not right now.
Google is getting off pretty easy: after a two-year investigation into Google's possibly anti-competitive antics, the Federal Trade Commission has ruled that Google hasn't done anything wrong, saying "evidence does not support a claim" that Google unfairly favors its own products in its search results.
The Google Maps of the future will be a very smart computer program that knows you very well, which sounds part useful, part annoying, and part creepy.
Google has always made it all too easy to join its not so beloved social network, but now it's forcing users to log in with Google+ in order to get better (and more lucrative) data for advertisers.
The term "blog" may be outdated, at least according to this Google Trends chart being passed around today.
The tech turf wars are raging on, and there is one notable giant largely missing from battle, report The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. So Microsoft lost 2012. But what about next year?
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There are two Santa trackers in town — er, space — this Christmas: the trusty ole eyes at NORAD and Google's new version, the simultaneous existence of which could lead to some very confused children next Monday night.
Have you been led astray by Apple's questionable Maps app? Do you find it odd that renderings of landscapes look like acid trips? Well, you'll be glad to hear that Google is launching its standalone maps app on Wednesday night.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Relax. Google hasn't blocked all the most explicit results from its search tool — it's just made those raunchy photos a little more difficult to find.
When asked about his competition — and Apple specifically — the Google CEO insists in a rare interview that he wants to see more cooperation, less animosity, and happier users.
Google has yet to offer an official explanation for the widespread outages that hit Gmail, Drive, Chrome, and more of its products late this morning, but explanations are beginning to surface for a minor Internet plague that continues into the afternoon.
As a fascinating phenomenon of modern tech-speak emerges — the verb "to Google" has now been translated into many other languages — we've compiled a handy traveler's guide.
In an attempt to show us how much Google+ has grown, Google released numbers Thursday that prove little more than how few users it's gotten users to engage with the service's front end.
After the first two versions didn't go so well, Google released a third edition of its email app today — and it seems to be a serious upgrade. (We think.)
The era of big multinational corporations like Google, Amazon and Starbucks skirting around their tax liabilities is coming to a close. In the United Kingdom, it is, anyways.
Is it possible that the popularity of babies named after tech companies says something about that company's overall appeal? Maybe.
The new Microsoft marketing push to get users to switch to Bing is more anti-Google than pro-anything, and it's not exactly working at all.
Let's take a look at some of the tell-tale signs we should have seen from the press release that might have indicated its fakery — and fended off an unfair stock-market bump.
The debate over American corporation skipping out on their tax bills is getting serious as European leaders have started talking about serious things like actual trials.
Nokia's HERE maps are, uh, here, available for the iPhone in the Apple store today, so it's time to see how the app stands up to both Apple's much-maligned native Maps and Google Maps for iPhone.
The mythical Google Maps iPhone app possibly coming to an iOS device near you by 2013 exists, a source tells The Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin.
Think you're a master Googler? Taking Google's Power Searching class will probably make you feel like you're not.
While the folks at Google who made this map of nearby stars caution that "scientific accuracy is not guaranteed" — and much of the data is drawn from Wikipedia — what they do give us is a tool for Google Chrome that is at least a tad bit educational and for the most part makes the user feel like she is about to ride Space Mountain.
A year after executives admitted in a closed door meeting that their management techniques were more comparable to the military than a corporation, Apple is starting soften up and offer employees better perks.
A Parliamentary committee will grill top executives from Amazon, Google and Starbucks on Monday about exactly how and why the companies have managed to pay appallingly low tax rates in the UK.
For a few minutes, the already deprived masses thought that the 21st century comfort gods had taken away Google's services, in addition to the electricity, cell service, and WiFi that Sandy had left them without.
Stuck inside with only the Internet, the hackers are doing what they can to inform and aid during the storm.
Following in the steps of Amazon and Wal-Mart, Google has launched same day delivery, just for certain San Francisco dwellers for now, reports The New York Times's Clair Cain Miller.
Once again, Google has given away some of the goodies we will see at Apple's event later today, with the 13 inch MacBook Pro with Retina display showing up on the Apple website following a search.
Researchers have identified 41 apps from Google's Play store that could expose bank information and leak e-mail and Facebook passwords, among other things.
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