In one of the largest settlements of its kind in U.S. history, Google agreed last week to pay the U.S. government half a billion dollars for allowing its advertising system to be abused by Canadian Internet prescription drug peddlers illegally importing their wares into the country. The size of the settlement wasn’t the only eye-opener...Read More
BY THOMAS CATAN AND AMIR EFRATI Behind Google Inc.’s decision this week to settle a U.S. criminal probe into ads it carried for unlicensed online pharmacies lies a previously undisclosed factor: Justice Department investigators believed company co-founder Larry Page knew of, and allowed, the ads for years. Sorting through more than four million documents, prosecutors...Read More
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By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Search-engine giant Google Inc. has agreed to forfeit $500 million for improperly allowing online Canadian pharmacies to use Google advertising services to target US consumers, the US Department of Justice said today. At a news conference this morning at the US attorney’s office in Providence, Justice Department officials said that...Read More
As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so...Read More
Google announced on Friday that Google+ users will soon begin to see Google+ posts in their Google Search results. This feature is activated only when you’re signed in to your Google Account, according Product Manager Sagar Kamdar, who posted the announcement on the Google Search Blog. When you’re searching Google for, say, a restaurant, you...Read More
Google continued to dominate the U.S. search market in July, but Yahoo was most effective in getting users to actually click through to another Web site, according to data from Experian Hitwise. Google had 66.05 percent of the search market last month, while Yahoo had 15.07 percent and Microsoft’s Bing nabbed 12.98 percent. As part of a 2009...Read More
Google has launched an Angry Bird at Facebook. AP Angry Birds: The game has grown into a full-blooded pop cultural sensation. AP Angry Birds: The game has grown into a full-blooded pop cultural sensation. The search giant’s Google+ social site on Thursday unleashed a move into casual games with such titles as Angry Birds and...Read More
The recently rolled out Google+ is Google’s latest effort to get a handle on something that so far has eluded the company: namely, gaining access to the data users generate when they post status updates, share photos and comment on friends’ activities. More and more, these social “signals†are becoming a crucial part of how...Read More
No accidents and tickets are quite impressive for such a high number of logged miles. The current situation may present a case where Robot drivers could be safer than humans. The Google cars are equipped with some high tech gear including video cameras in order to spot pedestrians. Another feature is their LIDAR, or light...Read More
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