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

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...

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...

If you use the main google page today you’ll note that it’s got a doodle on it. Yes, when you run the Google barcode back through a barcode reader, it does indeed say “Google”. But having scribbled about it elsewhere I wanted to use it to make a deeper point for you economic sophisticates. It’s the difference

Are your Google searches trying to tell you something? An anonymous bit of brilliance doing the rounds on the interweb highlights the different suggestions thrown up by Google searches, depending on your language. For example: Type in "How 2" and...

I've just started playing with google wave, and that sent me over to google gadgets, which show considerable potential ;-) PS Click in the fish tank to feed them.

Google’s decision to publicly confront the Chinese government over cyber attacks that have been hitting Google customers for the past year or so poses a difficult challenge for the Obama administration. The threat by Google to shut down its operations in China over the attacks is the first public acknowledgement by a major US corporation of the attacks which the US intelligence community has...