This would actually be funny if it weren’t so seemingly petty. No, wait, I take that back. It’s funny anyways. Back on July 14th, CNet News reporter Elinor Mills wrote a story on Google and privacy. As an example of the lack of privacy one may (not) enjoy at the…

I’ve received a lot of questions asking what Baidu is, and why all the hoopla over Baidu? Well, Baidu (Nasdaq symbol “BIDU” – more on that in a moment) is the Chinese search engine which is being tauted as the next Google, and which claims to be the sixth-most visited…

Perfect 10, an online and offline publisher of adult content, has filed a lawsuit against Google and Amazon, claiming that by turning up images of Perfect 10’s… um… “models”… in searches for, oh, who knows, maybe “nekkid women”, Google and Amazon’s A9 are violating Perfect 10’s copyright. Said Norm Zada,…

In an at least temporary victory for Redmond giant Microsoft, in a lawsuit which defending Mountain View giant Google is calling “a charade”, a Washington state trial court has ordered ex Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee to refrain from starting his new job at Google to the extent that it would…

Here are some Google search options that you may not be aware of, to make your search experience better, and even more fun!

Along with the limited beta release of Microsoft’s new Windows Vista came a beta version of IE7 (Internet Explorer 7). Almost immediately, Vista and IE7 users began reporting that their Yahoo! and Google toolbars had..vanished, while other less, um, competitive toolbars (pop-up blockers and form-fillers, to name two) experienced no…

Aunty has told you about the evils of click fraud. And how Google was sued over click fraud just last month. Now comes this company, which offers to track all of the pay-per-clicks on your site, giving you a full report so that you have documentation of click fraud should…

Is it a case of sour grapes, or good business? Microsoft this week has sued Google. Not over technology or copyright. Nope. Over poaching one of their top executives, Executive Vice President Kai-Fu Lee. It’s no secret that Microsoft has recently forayed into the Chinese Internet scene, and Google has…

This just in: Google wins rights to typos. Seriously. According to their recent press release, the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has issued a ruling giving to Google the rights to the Internet domain names “googkle.com”, “ghoogle.com”, “gfoogle.com” and “gooigle.com”. Google had filed a complaint “asserting legal rights to the Web…

You may recall that earlier this year we lectured you about click fraud, and even mentioned that Google was suing an outfit over their alleged click fraud. In fact, last month we showed you a news release from a company which tracks click fraud, LostClicks.com Well now another click fraud…

A report released this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that when it comes to Internet searching, and turning up adult content, MSN is better at blocking such results than either Google or Yahoo. Whether this is a bug or a feature is left as an exercise…

Google sure does a lot of nifty things with their search and archive capabilities! And one of those things is that it now archives your search history. Meaning that if you are logged in to Google, and perform a Google search, it remembers it for you. And which search results…

A newly discovered worm dubbed “Gpic.aol” and being transported via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) arrives as an instant message along the lines of “damn this looks just like me lol” and proffering a link which claims to be a link to pictures.google.com However, as soon as the unwitting recipient clicks…

A new, and oh-so-simple and deviously obvious scam has hit the Internet. According to a report in iAfrica, phishers are now purchasing ads on search engines such as Google, offering cheap airline tickets, and then sitting back and waiting for unsuspecting bargain shoppers to come to them. The cheap airline…

If you blinked you might have missed it. Google’s labs had put up “Google X”, a Google search home page which emulated Apple’s Mac OS X look and feel, particularly with respect to the dock function. When you used the Google X interface, above the search box were cute little…