Well, we’re a few hours into Google’s latest gimmick – a selection of arty backgrounds that slightly intrude on Google’s normally minimalistic homepage – and there’s alread a petition asking for it to be removed. Luckily, we’ve done some digging around, and you don’t have to have the image showing (although there is a catch). [...]

Well, it looks like the long wait is finally over. After almost a year of rumours, testing and speculation, Google has officially launched the “Caffeine” update. The new update doesn’t change Google’s ranking factors or results pages (if the official release is to be believed), but instead changes the way that pages are indexed and [...]

If you’ve done any searching over the weekend, you may well have noticed that Google’s had a few changes. We’re not just talking the tweaks to the logo (although it does look much brighter) – we’re talking about the changes to the search engine results page (SERP). Yes, there are still ten organic results as [...]

They might have laughed off villagers chasing off a streetview car, but it looks like Google has started to make moves to pacify the campaigners claiming that the search giant breaches privacy laws. The Official Google Blog has announced that a censorship map has been released, so that users can see if their government has [...]

Well, it’s finally happened. Numerous sources are claiming that Google has been forcibly knocked from its perch as the most-visited website in the world. And the new champion? The all-conquering Facebook. This won’t come as a suprise to many people, as Christmas 2009 saw the Facebook overtake Google in the USA, so the only shock [...]