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Blogger Uncovers Evidence of Google Events, Google Guess, Others

A blogger discovered evidence of several new Google features yesterday that hint at the company's product direction.While investigating a Google subdomain, Tony Ruscoe found...

Feds Retrieve Google Records after Gmail Used for Hate Speech

Federal agents requested and retrieved records from Google concerning a Gmail account that contained threatening speech, Google Watch has learned.The agents requested the records...

Judge OKs Google $90M Trick Click Fix

An Arkansas state judge has approved Google's $90 million settlement in a click fraud class action suit against the company.According to Marketwatch's Ben Charny,...

To Your Health, Google: Microsoft Buys Patient Info Software

Microsoft buys a patient information system. Could a battle with Google for the health care search and service marketplace be far behind?Microsoft yesterday announced...

Yahoo Hires DB Guru to Compete with Google

Yahoo named on Monday a database guru to study links between computer and human-aided search.Raghu Ramakrishnan, formerly professor of computer sciences at UW-Madison, is...

Google AdWords Gets Trick Click Fix

Google began giving AdWords customers data on invalid clicks on Tuesday, according to the company's Inside AdWords blog.To display the data, Google released a...

Bugle uses Google to Find Open Source Security Bugs

Google can help coders find security bugs in open source code on the Internet, according to a new research project.The project, called Bugle, identifies...

Google’s Open-Source Sesame

Google plans to describe a new Google service for the open-source community at the Open Source Convention on Thursday.Greg Stein, an engineering manager who...

Google Phones in Live Traffic Data

Update: Includes response from Google.Google announced on Tuesday the ability to view live highway traffic data via cell phones.The new product, Google Maps for...

Plaintiffs Nix Clicks Fix with Google

Google's proposed $90 million settlement does not do enough to prevent click fraud, said plaintiffs in an Arkansas court Monday, July 24.The 51 plaintiffs...