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Analyst downgrades Google stock, warns of “Googlephobia”

First Global issued a research note today downgrading Google from "market outperform" to "perform."The note reads like a rehash of the latest headlines:"Of late,...

Is Google Sexist?

Google's search algorithms have an odd tendency to promote men over women, says Dave Wischnowsky at the Chicago Trib. A reader wrote in to...

Bluegrass Musicians Sue YouTube

Another day, another lawsuit. This one comes from the famous bluegrass mandolin player David Grisman, a friend and erstwhile bandmate of the late Jerry...

Animal Planet: Google Earth to Get Creature Sounds

A California company has created a map overlay for Google Earth that embeds animal sounds into the relevant locations in Google Earth. "Bernie Krause has...

Court: Not Illegal to Google Your Employees

Three federal judges recently upheld a decision by the Merit Systems Protection Board that says a fired federal employee wasn’t harmed when an official...

New Google Blog for Maps, Earth

Google has launched a new blog, this time for Google Maps and Google Earth. The blog's name: LatLong. Sounds Cambodian. Or an obscure exercise,...

Hitwise: Google at 65 Percent of All Searches

The latest numbers from Hitwise show that Google is continuing a slow but seemingly inexorable climb in popularity. Google accounted for 65.26 percent of...

U.S. Spy Agency to Censor Google Earth, Google Maps?

The director of a little-known U.S. spy agency that analyzes satellite imagery says that the increasing availability of those photos may require the government...

Google’s a Winner in MySpace Acquisition of Photobucket

MySpace will pay $300 million to acquire Photobucket, one of the Web's largest photo- and video-sharing sites.Photobucket boasts about 14.7 million monthly unique visitors,...

NBC and Viacom Support Tur in YouTube Lawsuit

Let's clear one thing up right now: NBC is NOT suing YouTube, nor have they joined Viacom in that company's litigation against the vid-sharing...