Google To Shut Down Orkut Bad Apples
Google agreed to the Brazilian government's request to shut down a list of Orkut communities reported to violate Brazilian laws regarding violence, human rights, and other criminal activities. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Click Fraud Settlement Update
The $90 million agreement negotiated to end a lawsuit by Arkansas-based Lane's Gifts and Collectibles has progressed to court approval of the preliminary settlement.Read More → ^ TOP
Google faces criminal investigation in Brazil, report says
The Attorney General in Brazil is seeking a criminal investigation into allegations that child pornography is distributed on Google's Orkut social network site, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Faces Lawsuit Over Search Suggestions
A Belgian company has refiled a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google’s toolbar that directs users to pirated software.The suit, originally filed in February, was refiled Wednesday by ServersCheck, a small company that makes network monitoring software, over Google’s "Suggest" feature, included in the latest version of its search toolbar for Web browsers. When a user types in keywords for a search, the toolbar shows a drop-down menu of guesses related to those words. Read More → ^ TOP
DOJ Cold To Google's IE7 Complaint
The Department of Justice didn't buy Google's complaint that Microsoft's 7th version of Internet Explorer violated antitrust measures by setting MSN Search as the default search engine, bundled with next year's release of Windows Vista. Having worldwide dominance in search probably didn't help Google's case. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Notebook Goes Live
As promised at Google's Press Day event last week, its Notebook service from Google Labs has been turned on in beta for users to try. Firefox users will have an easy time of adding...Read More → ^ TOP
Google introduces new products for users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)The company is adding a new tool to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or "widgets," designed to become fixtures on a computer screen. Read More → ^ TOP
Google Threatens Wireless Market
A mixture of free wireless broadband connections and voice over Internet protocol applications will leave the mobile network market in the United States a smoldering unmourned wreck consigned to the scrapheap, but only in major cities. Read More → ^ TOPFull-up Google choking on web spam?
Webmasters have been seething at Google since it introduced its 'Big Daddy' update in January, the biggest revision to the way its search engine operates for years.Alarm usually accompanies changes to Google's algorithms, as the new rankings can cause websites to be demoted, or disappear entirely. But four months on from the introduction of "Big Daddy," it's clear that the problem is more serious than any previous revision - and it's getting worse. Read More → ^ TOP
Google Complains To Feds About IE7
Google has given its new lobbyists in Washington DC something to do, as the company expressed concern to both the Justice Department and the European Commission about Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 having MSN Search as its default search engine.Read More → ^ TOP
