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Five Reasons Google Will Acquire YouTube (and 5 Reasons Google Won’t)

One day after YouTube's Chad Hurley attended the secret Google Think Tank meeting in Mountain View, rumors are swirling that the search giant is...

Inside the Secret Google Think Tank Meeting

The search giant invited executives from major networks, media companies, NASA, the top librarian from the U.S. Library of Congress and former Vice President...

Google Launches Code Search for Script Kiddies

After watching sites like Koders and Krugle grab some headlines for code search, Google has rolled its own code-specific engine, which is now available...

‘My Sharona’ Creators Sue Yahoo, Apple, Amazon and Run DMC for Copyright Infringement

Rock band The Knack has sued several online music distributors, including Yahoo, Amazon and Apple, for distributing copies of Run DMC's song "It's Tricky,"...

Google Syndicates Widgets to Blogs, Other Web Sites

Google released yesterday a new service that allows Web publishers to insert small, JavaScript-based widgets into their blog or Web site.There are 1,220 Google...

Google CEO: Politicians Don’t Get the Internet

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the UK's conservative party yesterday that politicians don't understand the importance of the Internet, or that Internet content can...

Top 10 Reasons It’s Almost Impossible to Compete with Google

The search engine market has metastastized into an online media market. The bar set by the world's largest search engine now includes a heckuva...

Inside Google: Notes and Photos from Media Day at Google’s Manhattan Office

Google hosted a small open house at their new Manhattan offices today. They were kind enough to invite me, so I lugged along my...

Google’s Gmail Improves Spam Detection, MSN Hotmail Lags Behind

Only 3% of of opt-in e-mails were treated as spam by Gmail, according to a new report from Lyris, a maker of e-mail marketing...

Google Buys Their Old Garage

Google has added another piece of real estate to its burgeoning empire, only this one is the original garage where Larry and Sergey set...