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The Site You Are About to Visit May Harm Your Computer! Google Warns Searchers of Malware-Infested Search Results

If your search results during a Google search turn up sites which Google has reason to believe may attempt to shove malware (spyware, adware, etc.) onto your machine – and if you click on one of those result links – Google now serves up an intermediate page warning “the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!”

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Seems to Think Click Fraud No Big Deal in the Long Run

During a discussion at Stanford University a few months ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated that he thinks that the “perfect economic solution” to click fraud is “to let it happen.”

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Orkut Users Being Silently Scammed and Robbed by Orc.Malware – Google’s Orkut Service Hotbed of Brazilian Malware

The Spyware Guide has broken wide open a story involving Google’s Orkut service. Having discovered what it has dubbed “Orc.Malware”, the Spyware guide has investigated and found that Google’s Orkut is infested with the malwaree.

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Google Pays $319million for Mountain View Headquarters to Go Along with Building at Nasa Ames

Google has just announced that they are buying their Mountain View headquarters and a neighboring complex in a $319million dollar deal, adding the Mountain View campus along with their Nasa Ames property to their California holdings.

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Google Nears Completion of Massive Secret “Project 02” Googleplex in The Dalles at Oregon Washington Border

Google has been secretly building a massive complex – Code name: Project 02, and being dubbed the Googleplex (naturally) – in The Dalles, Oregon, at the Oregon/Washington border, along the Columbia river.

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Google Sued for Purveying, Profiting from, Child Pornography

Google has been sued by New York politician Jeffrey Toback, who claims that Google intentionally provides and promotes – indeed that Google’s business plan includes – child pornography.

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Google, the Default Search Engine for Firefox, Opera and Safari, Complains that MSN is the Default Search Engine for IE7

Google is complaining loudly that Microsoft has made their own search engine, MSN Search, the default search engine for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) – well they would now, wouldn’t they? This despite the fact that Google is the default search engine for Firefox, Safari and Opera.

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Google Introduces 3D Modeling with Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp is the latest from those whacky guys at Google Labs. Google Sketch Up is a new 3d modeling service from Google. And you can drag your Google Sketch-Up models into Google Earth!

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Google to Start Selling Books Online

Google has announced that they are going to start selling downloadable books online, putting them in direct competition with Amazon’s plans to do the same.

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GDrive – Google Plans Infinite Storage and to be Your Data Storage Center

Through the unintended publication of some internal notes, Google this week inadvertantly revealed their plans for “infinite storage”, a project they call GDrive, and keeping all of your files on their server for you.

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“Net Neutrality” Explained

What is “net neutrality”? We’ve been getting a lot of questions asking us to explain what this new term, “net neutrality” means. So we will. It all started with the introduction of the “Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006”.

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Google Desktop’s “Search Across Computers” Copies Your Personal Data to Google’s Servers

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is warning that a new feature of Google’s Desktop, called “Search Across Computers” copies entire documents and an enormous amount of data from your hard drive to Google’s servers.

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Feds Demand Your Search Records from Google in Lawsuit Where Your Privacy Gives Way to Witch Hunt for Child Porn Searchers

The Feds want your search records from Google, in a lawsuit designed to prove how much searching there is being done for child pornography. Should you be worried? You bet you should. And guess what. AOL, MSN and Yahoo have already given those records up.

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Microsoft and Google Settle Kai-Fu Lee Case

Microsoft and Google have settled the lawsuit which resulted from Google’s poaching of top executive Kai-Fu Lee. Is this the end of it?

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Free Google Wifi for Mountain View, California

Google free wifi is coming to Mountain View, California. While no date has yet been announced, Mountain View mayor Matt Neely says that the free Google wifi will come to Mountain View “in the very near future.”