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Google may get a bad rap at building social networks, but they've always been the gold-standard in search. But there's something we've noticed in the "personalized results" that they're using to self-promote Google+: They are not very good. 

Google's fancy mobile payment app apparently will appear on an unlocked Galaxy Nexus running an AT&T SIM. Officially only the Sprint version of the Samsung Nexus S 4G , Google's old Gingerbread flagship handset, can use Google Wallet software. According to Android blog Droid Life, however, the Google Wallet app popped up in the Market on an unlocked variant of the coveted superphone that was …

Google announced that it has commenced automatic scanning of all applications found in its Android Market in the wake of malware scares and consumer concerns over in-app spyware.

Google has quietly added county-specific URLs to Blogger blogs, in an effort to more effectively address take-down notices from local governments. The change allows Google to censor specific blogs in a single country, rather than worldwide, where rules surrounding pornographic, religious, or political content differ from other parts of the world.

Google has been ordered to pay a fine and damages to French mapping company Bottin Cartographes because it makes Google Maps available for free, undercutting companies that offer similar services for a fee. Bottin Cartographes had filed an unfair competition complaint against Google, claiming the search giant was abusing its dominant position in the Internet search market to achieve a leading …

Last week, Google announced new privacy standards that essentially created a single, unified policy across all of its properties

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday Google, whose offerings include its flagship search engine, Gmail, YouTube and Google+ products, announced last week that it was unifying 60 of …

LONDON, January 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Google and thetrainline.com come together to help customers plan train travel across BritainTravelling across Britain by train just became easier, with the launch …

LONDON, January 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Google and thetrainline.com come together to help customers plan train travel across BritainTravelling across Britain by train just became easier, with the launch …

Google (NSDQ:GOOG – News) executives got a rough ride from a House Of Commons committee on Monday, when they declined to systemically filter law-breaking web pages from search results.