Given the fun we have here in Coffee House picking Gordon Brown up on factual errors, it seems only fair to cast our eye over David Cameron’s speech. One can argue his errors are made from ignorance rather than calculation, but errors are errors and have no place in a leader’s speech. It is untrue to say – as Cameron did – “In Afghanistan the number of our troops has ...

Image by tuexperto_com5, licensed under Creative Commons Google rules the virtual world but if it ruled the real one, would things be a bit different? Google.org which is the philanthropic arm of Google blogged that it wants to see America weaned off fossil fuels by 2030 for its electricity. Also, Google's own energy efficiency initiatives will be equivalent to shutting down 10-20 coal-fired ...

The Sunday Times investigates Google’s tax arrangements in the UK. Well, actually, they have Richard Murphy read the accounts for them. In a nutshell when you buy an ad from Google you do so from Google Ireland rather than Google UK. Thus tax on any profits ends up in the Irish Treasury rather than the UK

Evan Osnos, who writes the New Yorker’s excellent Letter From China blog, has been translating the few comments written in support of Google that have made it past China’s Great Firewall and onto the internet. Here are a few: CXZJ:...

This won't make any sense unless you first look at this rather good and amusing piece on Paul Staines' blog, about the predictive suggestions Google gives you when you type "Gordon Brown is". Then go to google.co.uk, and type in "Paul Staines", and see what predictive text Google suggests. FIRST PLACE GOOGLE SUGGESTION IS "PAUL STAINES BNP". As Paul says so wisely "GOOGLE KNOWS". Those g...

The head of Google is disturbed by the fact that others fail to share his educational tastes. Deity called on in support: Schmidt's comments echoed sentiments expressed by Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, who revealed he was stepping...

1) Write about Google at a well known media outlet. 2) Write something about Google at a well known media site that Google would like to finesse. 3) Profit!

Today's New York Times has a fun piece about Google X, the secret lab where Google is working on its special projects. The ideas are, suitability, far out. They are, apparently, looking at connecting household appliances to the internet and creating a robot that could go to the office so you don't have to. It would be tempting to laugh if not for what Google has already pulled off. Indee...

Looks like the clock has struck thirteen for Google. Confirmation. So far as I can gather, this means that the Google.cn site now in Hong Kong is completely blocked while Google.com can be accessed under the usual controls, though it...

Just had this in an email from a reader regarding the new Comments system. Can anyone help? Apologies in advance for what may be a stupid question: I have a google account. My username is my e-mail address. I also have a nickname: ‘tweedledum’ which is also the name I have used to make a few comments on here by the old method. If I want to make a comment now, how do I make it display u...