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A computer screen inbox displaying unsolicited emails known as “spam” in Hong Kong 2009. Google on Friday said it has made it harder for spam-packed websites to rank high in results at the world’s top Internet search engine. Google on Friday said it has made it harder for spam-packed websites to rank high in results [...]

The Google logo on the rooftop of the Google China headoffice building in Beijing. Google announced Monday that it has stopped censoring its Chinese-language search engine Google.cn. Internet titan Google stopped censoring its search engine in China on Monday in a move that was hailed by rights groups but risks angering the Chinese authorities. (c) [...]

A mobile phone with Google’s Android operating system that was delayed in China will now ship next week, in the latest sign that Android has gone largely unscathed by a row between Google and the Chinese government. A subsidiary of mobile carrier China Unicom has started letting users reserve the Motorola XT701 and estimates the [...]

The logo of web search engine Google is seen behing a computer keyboard. Despite fierce resistance to Google’s plans to digitise the world’s books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe’s cultural treasures — beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital foothold this week. Despite fierce resistance to Google’s [...]

The logo of web search engine Google is seen behing a computer keyboard. Despite fierce resistance to Google’s plans to digitise the world’s books, observers say it is well placed to start scanning Europe’s cultural treasures — beginning in France, where the US giant got a digital foothold this week. Despite fierce resistance to Google’s [...]

The dust hasn’t yet completely settled from the frenzy of Google Nexus One phone rumors — in fact there is still ongoing debate about whether the Nexus One will be direct from Google, but that hasn’t stopped us from moving on to a new rumor that Google is also developing a Google-branded netbook. Assuming the [...]