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How Google Spies On Your Gmail Account (And How To Stop It)

4:59AM Ryan Tate | In Google’s war with Facebook, Google’s “don’t be evil” motto could be a casualty. The search engine is now leveraging your private Gmail information to get an edge in the social networking wars. It’s creepy. More »

Lady Gaga Might Join Google’s Next Spectacular Failure

6:04AM Ryan Tate | You can’t buy cool, but Google is determined to try. At its annual Google I/O conference in San Francisco, the company is unveiling a music service, and Fast Company hears that Lady Gaga is already shooting ads for it. More »

Police Raid Google For Privacy Violations – In Korea

3:10AM Ryan Tate | Privacy is no trifling matter in Korea. Seoul police raided Google’s offices looking for evidence the company illegally tracked users to target ads at them. Apple and Facebook, call your lawyers. More »

The Funniest Moments From Tina Fey’s Google Visit

6:11AM Ryan Tate | We’ve boiled down the best four minutes of Tina Fey’s hourlong interview at the Googleplex in Silicon Valley, in which the 30 Rock creator disses other comedies, reveals a baffling nickname from co-star Tracy Morgan—and unveils a foolproof joke to make anyone laugh. More »

Google’s ‘Copyright School’ Fails Miserably

6:56AM Adrian Chen | News that Google is making all copyright scofflaws on YouTube attend “copyright school” has been met with an immediate halting of all copyright violations on the site. No, wait, people are uploading lots of pirated movies. More »

Google Jumps Into The Fishy Online Coupon Business

9:15AM Ryan Tate | Google has launched a beta test of a Groupon clone called Offers, which promises to wring every remaining ounce of patience out of local merchants already besieged by the online coupon business. More »

Google’s Co-Founder Doesn’t Want You To Know About His Facebook Account

7:19AM Ryan Tate | Google and Facebook are fierce rivals, and spar over advertising, access to private information, and talented engineers. Given the two companies’ obvious mutual obsession, why is Google co-founder Sergey Brin so secretive about having a Facebook account? More »

Google Smashes The ‘Future Of Journalism’

3:28AM Ryan Tate | In January, Demand Media looked like the “future of journalism“, as CJR put it. Flush after a soaring IPO, the content farm planned an acquisition spree. Now, thanks to some Google tweaks, Demand Media’s stock is plunging. More »

Google Now Treating Copyright Violators Like Drunk Drivers

1:15AM Adrian Chen | A lot of people use YouTube to upload original content of adorable babies. But a lot of people use it to post copyright-violating clips of TV shows and Lady Gaga videos. Now, YouTube copyright violators will be sentenced to “copyright school.” More »

The Time Google’s CEO Tried To Clean Up His Own Google Results

9:44AM Adrian Chen | Google CEO Eric Schmidt once famously proclaimed that today’s kids might all need to change their names to escape their embarrassing Internet trail. What about tech CEOs? A new book reveals Schmidt tried, and failed, to scrub his own Google results. More »