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Is Google Launching Own Social Networking Site?

Blogs report conflicting information on 'Google Circles'

(Newser) - Google will soon launch a social network, blogs are saying, and it may be called Google Circles. The tech blog The Next Web first reported the news Friday, noting that the product would launch at Google’s I/O conference in May; ReadWriteWeb followed with an assertion that the new service...

Google CEO Eyed as Commerce Secretary

Pfizer head, Ron Kirk also in running, say sources

(Newser) - The Obama administration is considering naming Google CEO Eric Schmidt as commerce secretary, sources tell BusinessWeek . Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler and current US trade representative Ron Kirk are also reportedly in the running. Current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke is being nominated to be US ambassador to China. Presidents often look...

Google, Spain Battle Over Privacy
Google, Spain Battle
Over Privacy
Mar 7, 2011 2:02 AM CST

Google, Spain Battle Over Privacy

Part of a Europe-wide debate over the 'right to be forgotten'

(Newser) - A Spanish plastic surgeon has complained to Spanish regulators that a Google search of his name still turns up a dispute over a botched operation covered by El Pais 20 years ago. It's one of 80 "privacy invasion" cases in which Spanish authorities have told Google to remove personal...

150K Gmail Users Lose Everything

It appears accounts were reset; Google promises a fix

(Newser) - Bad news for less than 0.08%, by Google's count, of Gmail users: Your account may have "vanished into the cloud," Engadget reports. Gmail users started reporting yesterday morning that they'd lost access to their inboxes—and that, by the time some of them were able to log...

Google Goes After Content Farms

New algorithm designed to weed out low-quality sites that copy material

(Newser) - Google has had it with content farms—websites that seek traffic by amassing material that's often copied directly from other websites, Mashable reports. The search giant is altering its algorithm “to reduce rankings for low-quality sites,” it announces in a blog post . The shift, which will begin in...

Google Search for 'Murder' Turns Up Abortion Entry

Anti-choice pranksters manipulate the results

(Newser) - Some tech-savvy opponents of abortion have manipulated Google's search results to send a message. As of this morning, the search for the word "murder" turns up the Wikipedia entry for abortion in the No. 2 slot, notes Jezebel . No word from Google yet, which has been working to make...

Canadians Aim to Send Hockey Pucks to Moon

Team seeks Google Lunar X Prize

(Newser) - A team of Canadians is aiming to send a few hockey pucks up to join Neil Armstrong's golf balls on the surface on the moon. The Canadians are one of 29 teams from 17 countries competing to win some of the $30 million in prize money Google is offering to...

Google Unveils Answer to Apple App Store

One Pass gives publishers bigger cut of revenues

(Newser) - A day after Apple showed off its content subscription service, Google has revealed details of its own. Called One Pass, the service will give publishers a bigger piece of the revenue pie: While Apple will take a 30% cut on sales from iTunes App Store subscriptions, Google wants just 10%....

Glenn Beck: Don't Use Google
 Glenn Beck: Don't Use Google 
Feb 17, 2011 5:37 AM CST

Glenn Beck: Don't Use Google

Search firm is in cahoots with US government, Beck says

(Newser) - Glenn Beck doesn't trust Google and he doesn't think his viewers should either. The Fox host—pointing to a Google exec's role in the Egyptian uprising —says the search firm is in bed with the US government and he plans to avoid using its products, the New York Daily ...

Google's Latest Plan: Woo Brides

Who needs a wedding planner when you have Google?

(Newser) - Google has already enmeshed itself in your email , your mapping needs , your book collection … why not your wedding as well? The search giant announced Google for Weddings yesterday on its official blog . Wedding planners, watch out: The site will allow users to do everything from organizing guests lists and...

Google, Facebook Eye Twitter, Price Tag: $10B

Social network valuations head to the sky

(Newser) - Facebook and Google are among the companies circling Twitter and considering a colossal buyout deal, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . The talks haven't gone anywhere yet, but the price under discussion is somewhere between $8 billion and $10 billion—roughly 100 times the amount of revenue Twitter, which lost...

Freed Google Exec: I'm Proud I Helped Spark Egypt Revolt

We are not traitors, sobs Wael Ghonim

(Newser) - A Google executive freed after 12 days in Egyptian detention admitted yesterday he was behind the Facebook page that helped spark the nation's uprising—and he sobbed as he spoke passionately about needed change in his homeland. He ripped authorities for calling him a traitor, reports AP . "Anyone with...

Google Exec a Key Player in Egypt Protests
 Google Exec 
 Freed in Egypt 
UPDATED
Feb 7, 2011 12:59 PM CST

Google Exec Freed in Egypt

Wael Ghonim emerging as key figure in movement

(Newser) - Egyptian authorities released Google's top executive in the Middle East today, after secretly detaining him for more than a week, the Wall Street Journal reports. The executive, Wael Ghonim, has emerged as a key opposition figure in the massive protests against the Mubarak administration, according to the Journal . Protest organizers...

Ex-Girlfriend Gets Revenge Via Google Search

She floods ex's image on web, with mocking messages

(Newser) - Unless this is an elaborate hoax, a tech-savvy girl has gotten a very new-fashioned sort of revenge on her old flame—via Google. She manipulated the search function so it coughs up repeated images of him when his name is typed in, each with a mocking (and sometimes pretty nasty)...

Microsoft to Google: We Don't Copy, You Copy

Bing execs angrily deny cheating charges

(Newser) - Call it Nerd Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back. Microsoft angrily denied Google's recent claims that Bing has been copying Google's search results , calling the accusation "insulting," in a ratcheting up of tensions between the two computer giants. "We do not copy results from any of our...

Google Way Outspends Rivals in Lobbying

Company spent $5.16 million, a 29% increase in 2010

(Newser) - Google spent more on lobbying last year than Apple, Facebook, and Yahoo combined, dropping a total of $5.16 million—or 29% more than the year before, according to its Lobbying Disclosure Act Database filing. The jump is pretty understandable, given that net neutrality and online privacy were major issues,...

Google Catches Bing Copying Its Results

It theorizes that it's spying on users with IE, Bing toolbar

(Newser) - Google is furious. The search giant says it’s caught Bing red-handed stealing its search results—or, at least, mining data from its results to use to adjust Bing's own ranking algorithm. It suspects Bing is using Internet Explorer and/or the Bing toolbar to monitor users’ Google queries and results....

Bing or Google? According to Jeopardy!, the Winner Is...

...Google, but not by all that much

(Newser) - Bing vs. Google: How will we ever really know which search engine is superior? Easy: Jeopardy! will tell us. A computer expert ran 200,000 of the game show’s clues into common search engines to see which came up with the correct answer—in the form of a question—...

Egypt Shutting Down Cell Phone Networks

But Google's helping people get around Internet blocks

(Newser) - Egypt is again targeting communication networks ahead of a million-man protest planned today. Mobile phone networks will be shut down over the next few hours, CNN reports. Google has announced on its official blog that it has set up a "speak-to-tweet" service to help Egyptians get around Internet blocks....

Google Exec Missing in Egypt
 Google Exec Missing in Egypt 
Jan 31, 2011 3:54 PM CST

Google Exec Missing in Egypt

Head of marketing expressed sympathy with protesters

(Newser) - A Google exec has gone missing amid the chaos reigning in Egypt, the Wall Street Journal reports. Family and friends have been unable to reach Wael Ghonim, head of Google's marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, since 6pm on Friday. While spotty Internet access is making routine communication...

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