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Throw Another Google on the Barbie

Four years after first establishing a presence in Australia, Google's opened up a new office in Sydney, and is now looking to hire a...

Politics 2.0: Micro-Graft and Wikis

California registered voters can now take part in an experimental political fantasy camp.At Wicracy, launched last week, participants create a platform of issues they...

Google Digs a New Channel For ‘Prefered’ Goods

Google says it's testing a way in which someone could buy goods from a well-known merchant, such as Apple Computer, via a Google account.News...

Life in Google’s Copyright Cross Hairs

Despite a recent headline-grabbing trademark enforcement, Google seems to have settled on a live-and-let-live attitude about many of its chief trademark offenders, namely Web...

NSA Spying Update: Truth, Nothing but the Redacted Truth

There's new reading material for those interested in how the National Security Agency has been supposedly secretly monitoring phone calls, e-mails and Internet sessions...

What the eBay-Yahoo Deal Means to Google

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt thinks everybody's getting it wrong about the recently announced blockbuster ad deal between Yahoo and online marketplace eBay.Schmidt argues it...

Google’s ‘Oogle’ Hunters Bag Another One

An Internet search engine once known as Chmoogle was recently forced to change its name after aggressive action by Google's trademark protecting posse.Earlier this...

Brazil Asks Google to Shutter More Orkut Communities

Google's expects to soon get a new list of Orkut communities that Brazilian authorities believe violate local law and should be shut down, a...

Google and Microsoft: Best Buds, On The Radio

Dare it be said that rivals Google and Microsoft need each other, at least a little bit?The answer is yes, of course, and in...

Video Search: YouTube Dominates, Google Video No. 5

YouTube continues to dominate the Internet video search market, according to a new report.Hitwise, the traffic intelligence firm, recently reported that as of May...