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Google Docs is not perfect, but let me point out the difference between Microsoft and Google: Microsoft releases software that is as buggy as an open jar of honey on a hot day, and we get all hot and bothered. Google releases yet another product that needs another round or two in the development cycle (it's called "beta"), and we shrug our shoulders and move along unfettered. Features such as word count might be missing, and document translation is a curious state of affairs at best. Then agai...

A lecturer has criticised students for relying on websites like Google and Wikipedia to do their thinking for them.

Michael A. Harris, the winner of Sunday Journal's 28th Investment Dartboard contest, last year bet on China and won big.

A submission by planning and development consultant Reid Associates, which accompanies the planning application, states that Google ‘‘is now looking to further expand its Dublin base by doubling its number of employees in the next 18 months’’.

Google responded on Friday to a lawsuit filed against it by Northeastern University, denying claims that its search service infringes on patented technology.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that his main objective behind the launch of new search engine 'Wikia Search' is to provide netizens with a viable, transparent alternative to Google, rather than beat it.

London, January 12 (ANI): Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that his main objective behind the launch of new search engine Wikia Search is to provide netizens with a viable, transparent alternative to Google, rather than beat it.

European Union antitrust regulators asked online advertising companies whether prices would rise if Google's proposed $3.1 billion takeover of DoubleClick is approved, according to an E.U. questionnaire.

Google giveth and Google taketh away: many websites rely heavily on Google’s AdSense program for revenue. Israeli email marketer IncrediMail apparently relies so much on AdSense that, when it told investors early this morning that Google was barring it and disabling its ads, the company’s stock price opened 40 percent down. By the end of the day, the price dropped 45 percent since the news hit.

Every slow Friday turns into a day for rumors, and as it turns out, this one was also a day for discussing the Yellow Pages industry. Now something's come about that combines the two subjects: a rumor that Google will buy Yell, a UK Yellow Pages company.