Google has issued a press release explaining the racially offensive doctored picture that appears at the top of the image search list when users look for Michelle Obama. However, the internet giant has refused to remove the image.
News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch and software giant Microsoft are reportedly discussing ways to bar Google from accessing news websites and have Web users pay for their content. The media mogul has accused Google of "stealing" from his newspapers.
Internet giant Google has for the first time showed how its long-awaited operating system, Chrome OS, will work. The 100% cloud computing system will run on netbooks as soon as 2010.
Goggle has finally reached an agreement with American publishers. He has made a major concession though. He agreed to limit after Europeans editors had said they were not willing to take part in the matter.
The acquisition of AdMob is the third most important in Google's history, after online ad agency Double Click and Youtube, and gives the Internet giant crucial leadership in the fast growing mobile advertising market.
Space agencies including NASA are joining forces with Internet giant Google Inc in order to fight global warming by using satellite images to monitor forests from space.
Google will have to wait longer before it can start scanning millions of books as the US Justice department asked the court to reject the settlement between the Internet giant and authors because of possible copyright and anti-trust issues.
Internet search giant Google has started a new experiment in the way Web users view news sites. The aim is to drive revenue back to news media, and of course to Google too.
"Visual search", the new feature of Microsoft's Bing, lets Web users search using images instead of text. It's the first major update of the search engine, giving users something that competitor and market leader Google doesn't yet have.