Free email providers get far more out of free email services than do the users of the free email services.

A splog is a garbage website put up for the sole purpose of either displaying ads or linking to another target site to give that target site more inbound links. In that way splogs serve to artificially inflate the page rank of the target site.

Google has been quietly testing a new service, called “Google Base”, which allows you to list items on Google. Leaked screenshots of Google Base show a form where you can enter your listing, and which says: “Post your items on Google. Google Base is Google’s database into which you can…

Google is controlled by the Pentagon! At least according to one group.

Google Reader is a new RSS reader which aims to bring RSS feeds to everyone. RSS feeds are a way for a content-based website to tell you when new content has been published without your having to go to the site itself and check.

Google Wifi, or Goog-Fi, has been quietly launched, along with Google Secure Access, a free piece of software you can use with Google Wifi to help make the connection more secure.

Google has been sued for copyright infringement over the book scanning under their Library Program. The class action lawsuit was filed by the Authors Guild, and authors Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles, and Daniel Hoffman.

Google is in the process of scanning books from libraries around the world and putting them online. But is it copyright infringement? Should Google be allowed to scan books and put them online even when the books are not in the public domain, and are subject to copyright protection? Some say yes, others say no.

Microsoft to Google: “We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow if Google will agree to take today’s preliminary injunction, keep every word without a single change, and enter it as a permanent injunction…”

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the former Microsoft executive who left MSFT to join Google, and over which Microsoft sued Google, may start his job at Google pending the outcome of the trial, the Court says

2Search spyware is nasty stuff. It shows up uninvited on your computer, and then hijacks your web browser, taking you places you don’t really want to go, and exposing you to even more spyware.

Google Talk is Coming! According to News Reports, Google is launching a new instant messenger service, called Google Talk, some time this week. Says the LA Times, “According to a person who has seen the service, Google plans to let users chat using more than just their keyboards. Like similar…

Well, thanks to Grant Robinson, I have a new time waster: Guess the Google. Guess the Google should be more properly named “Guess the keyword which resulted in these images being returned in a Google image search”, but I guess that was too long, and the acronym – GKWRTIBRGIS –…

Is Google Wifi around the corner? Rumours are flying that Google is secretly setting up a unbiquitous free wifi service (which Aunty now officially christens “Goog-fi”) which would allow users anywhere to access the Internet (and Google, of course) for free from any wifi-enabled device. Well, maybe almost anywhere.

Lead by terrorism fears, search engine giant Google has been asked by no less than the head of Australia’s nuclear energy agency to please remove images of Australia’s Lucas Heights nuclear reactor from Google’s database of satellite images. The fear is that the images make the reactor just that much…