Google faces class action law suite for selling trademark keywords

September 22nd, 2009 EU adviser: Google ads don't infringe trademarksBRUSSELS — A European Union court adviser said Tuesday that Google Inc. does not violate luxury goods makers' trademarks when it sells brand names as search keywords that trigger its lucrative advertisements.

September 22nd, 2009 EU advisor: Google ads don't infringe trademarksBRUSSELS — A European Union court advisor said Tuesday that Google Inc. does not violate luxury goods makers' trademarks when it sells brand names as advertising keywords triggered by Internet searches.

March 9th, 2006 Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it. Read more in the Phil Law Blog..

December 20th, 2008 This winter Google has not stopped including various features to all the products they have. Just when I was wondering it would have been better if Google could help us with a more refined image search option, they DID it actually.

July 7th, 2009 Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customersNEW YORK — After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta." Google Inc. says its e-mail service and three other applications in the Google Apps suite for businesses are now finished products in name as well as function.

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

December 18th, 2004 Keith posted an interesting article countering the hype generated by Google Suggest & GMail - Google Suggest and GMail are a step backwards I think there are two things which makes Google Suggest interesting. People now realize there is a way to use javascript for live update of sections in a webpage, which for some strange reason they didn't find out earlier! And I think the implementation is pretty decent (read fast) in duplicating a client side application functionality in a web application.

February 12th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Google has failed in another attempt to diversify its advertising business from the Internet to old media. Less than a month after scrapping its division that sold advertisements to newspapers, the Internet search giant announced Thursday that it planned to stop selling advertisements for broadcast radio at the end of May and focus on selling advertisements for streaming audio feeds on the Internet.

November 14th, 2005 Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance. If your web site bandwidth consumption has spiked in the last couple of days, look to blame it on Google Web Accelerator.

April 23rd, 2009 UK privacy watchdog clears Google Street ViewLONDON — Britain's privacy watchdog said Thursday that Google Street View should not be removed or shut down, dismissing concerns that the service was too invasive. Google's Street View program, which carries panoramic, high-quality photographers of street scenes across the world, prompted a brief flurry of media attention when it was rolled out across Britain last month.

November 18th, 2007 By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I'm Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above.

September 3rd, 2009 Sprint to start selling phone with Google softwareNEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp. is releasing a phone sporting Google Inc.'s Android software on Oct.

September 21st, 2005 The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States filed a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its Google Library program. The suit alleges that Google is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

June 19th, 2009 After Bing's fiasco over pornographic videos its ace search engine Google's turn to face the wrath. Chinese Internet sentinel codenamed the Chinese-language version of Google was accused for disseminating pornographic and vulgar information.  The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has already beefed Goolge about the pornographic and vulgar links on its search engine for chinese- www.google.cn.