Spend more than a few minutes on Google researching somebody and chances are that you may uncover some interesting info. The trouble is that sometimes search engines expose more information than people are comfortable seeing about themselves online. It appears that Google CEO Eric Schmidt learned this lesson when CNet published an article that let […]

Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation’s largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine. The company announced the suspension, effective until November, in a notice posted on its Web site just before midnight […]

Looking for Ringtones for your cell phone so you can look cool in front of your friends and also annoy everyone eating in the restaurant? Well, so were the people at RingBit.com. They were looking so hard from site to site looking for Ringtones that they got the bright idea to simply use Google licensed […]

British CNET subsidiary ZDNet UK issued what appeared to be a sarcastic apology to Google this week, calling into question the search giant’s decision not to talk with CNET reporters until July 2006. The open letter was not signed by anyone, only “Leader” whose e-mail directed to the site’s general mailbox.

“Acting under the mistaken impression […]

Two Californian advertisers have filed separate suits against Google over its paid search scheme. According to court reports, one advertiser claims the search engine giant took too much money from it while another says that the company didn’t pay it enough.
Industrial printing firm CLRB Hanson Industries placed its ads on Google alongside certain keywords. The […]

Google Inc. stepped up the pace of its expansion in China — and competition with new stock-market star Baidu.com Inc. — by tapping three Chinese companies to sell advertisements for its China site. Google named China Enterprise, China Source and Hotsales authorized resellers for Google AdWords on Tuesday, adding China to the roster of locales, […]

“We need to do this to stop Google,” Bill Gates is reported to have said to Dr. Lee referring to the lawsuit aimed at preventing Lee from working for the search engine.
This was just months after Lee sat in on a top-secret executive meeting entitled “The Google Challenge.”
So why is a software company […]