Officials in Kiryat Yam, a small city in northern Israel, have filed a complaint with police against the Internet search engine Google. The city argues that one of Google’s programs, Google Earth, gives viewers false information that offends the city’s image. picked by Ionb 3 months ago

Maybe he should have just worn a hat.

But Jullian Lee Simmons, 34, grew angry Sunday while getting a free haircut as part of a homeless program at St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder, and he chose to attack his volunteer barber and several other people, police said. picked by mutil8or 1 month ago

From the first idea, to the last. How Google moved from plain, to an icon we all now acknowledge. picked by MUPpetMAKer 3 months ago

Google was accused Wednesday of effectively removing from the Internet a Web site that is critical of the Church of Scientology after it deleted links to some of the site's pages from its search engine. picked by leopoldogolba 4 months ago

Google have developed a new version of their web crawling algorithm that is able to build an accurate model of what the web will look like 24 hours into the future. This includes lottery results sites and reports of sporting events.

This will be formerly announced tomorrow, but a beta version made available today has leaked the news picked by Pocksucket 2 months ago

The nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters picked by indisguise 3 months ago

Google created tons of products in the past. And some of them, they removed again after finding that they didn’t work, required too many resources, didn’t take off, or were overshadowed by legal concerns. Here are some of the “lost” Google services and features.

I never knew some of these had even existed picked by doggylives 2 months ago

A Garden City mom was surprised and outraged to find pictures of her children on a Google Map Search Internet page. picked by dollyllama 3 months ago

The Google van(?) drove right up their driveway which was marked private. The family, whose terrible name is Boring, are suing for $25,000 saying that part of the property's value was privacy. picked by coldbladed 1 month ago

No, not a Tom Hanks movie...each night, scores of London's homeless pose as stranded passengers in order to sleep in a warm and safe place. picked by moe 2 months ago

Pentagon has banned Google Earth teams from making detailed street-level video maps of U.S. military bases. picked by 2longdogs 2 months ago

A man wielding a chain saw and a knife attacked residents at a homeless shelter where he was staying, leaving two people in critical condition and injuring two others. picked by MandolinOrange 4 months ago

We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean. picked by AutumnLotus 2 weeks ago

Blackle----searching google AND saving the environment at the same time

update on this picked by acemak 3 months ago

Because they're engaged in a First Amendment-protected protest, the homeless people are exempt from Portland, Oregon's new sit-lie law, and the police are therefore powerless to move them on during the day.

Favorite quote from the article:

"This isn't camping, this is a protest." picked by Daftgretel 2 weeks ago

Gallery of the new Google offices in Zurich, all the benefits of the Googles building in Silicon Valley but so much better!

Video of the offices HERE Well worth a watch! picked by doggylives 2 months ago

A lady isn't happy that homeless people are sleeping on public benches. Decides that getting people to sit on them all day long in 30-hour shifts is the best way to prevent the homeless from using the benches. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

A Florida judge has ordered a Fort Lauderdale businessman to turn in his chain saw and stop terrorizing five homeless men who congregate in his neighborhood. picked by mutil8or 1 month ago

The McKees own a house that is featured in a much more intrusive set of Google StreetView images...

Update to this story. picked by extc68 1 month ago

In a case that drew worldwide attention, a jury has convicted a 77-year-old woman of murder and her 75-year-old co-defendant of conspiracy to commit murder in a chilling slow-motion plot to kill two homeless men for $2.8 million in life insurance. picked by doggylives 4 weeks ago