Finally, Google has done it: They've made a fundamental change to their search results that could drive me, and a host of other bloggers, to rival search engines. If you blog, you know the routine: Looking for a relevant link, I type a few keywords into Google, and copy and paste the link into a post. More often…

When Google first started pounding its chest about not being evil, one practice in particular was the target of its engineers' self-righteous anger: Overture's practice of mixing advertisers' links in with regular search results. Yahoo, after it bought Overture four years ago, continued the practice. But now, years…

The San Francisco Chronicle has another look into Google's China offices. The pictures come from inside the Googleplex Zhongguancun (say that five times fast — hint, the "c" is pronounced "ts"). Most importantly, there's a rundown of a typical lunch menu — seafood pizza, pumpkin risotto, braised mushroom with bamboo…

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. I'm not sure if Euripides, the Greek playwright, had Google's management team in mind when he wrote that, but it sure fits. Google, despite the occasional lost deal, billion-dollar lawsuit, and PR black eye, continues to succeed spectacularly as a business. "Somehow…

Success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan — unless you can somehow spin an adoption tale into the mix. That seems to be what Marissa Mayer is trying to do. In a recent interview, Marissa Mayer tries to take credit for both Google's Gmail email service, as well as AdSense, the immensely profitable…

Like the fictional Jason Bourne, played by Matt Damon in the upcoming Bourne Ultimatum, Google can't decide who it really is. A good guy trying to save the world? Or an amoral mercenary? It can't be both. As Google Blogoscoped points out, Google is slanting search results by placing an extra-large advertisement for …

On Google Blogoscoped, Philipp Lenssen outs former Google developer Paul Buchheit as the man behind Google's "don't be evil" slogan. As Google gets ever larger, ever more complicated, and ever more — oh, let's say it — evil, Buchheit's brainstorm looks ever more unwanted, and ever harder to shed. Which is exactly…

In every insult, there's a backhanded compliment. Privacy International has named and shamed Google, ranking it as the single worst privacy offender it surveyed in a new report (PDF), dinging it for a range of what it claims are objectionable practices and attitudes toward privacy. It's a charge that Googler Matt…

Okay, stop for a minute. There is a wrong to be righted. If blogs are supposed to be leading the New Media, can they pull one string regarding Google? With the censorship, FBI subpoenas, and overall creepy hugeness of Google, the "evil" thing is coming up a lot. But no one gets the phrase right.

Google's new infrastructure, now rolling out, is named Bigdaddy. No comment needed. [Matt Cutts]
Bubble's back, babe. [Techdirt]
CBS proves its loyalty to Google Video. [LA Times]
Okay, so Robert Scoble was the "big-name blogger" who wanted his evil back — turns out he even blogged it. The pain of discovering this…

A big name blogger and Microsoft employee was recently overheard at an industry event defending his employer when it was called the "Evil Empire." He said, "Two kids from Stanford stole our evil, and now we want it back."

How evil is Google? Link-forum Digg, inspired by the giant's latest choice of the lesser evil, resurrects an old Internet gag. The Gematriculator gauges a site's evilness by vowel content (or something. It's SCIENCE).

Sergey Brin and Larry Page on Google.org:

January 24: Google launches Google.cn, a Chinese search page with censored results. Every tech media outlet raises a stink.

Are your image searches clogged with symbols of oppression? The Google Blogoscoped provides a handy Google Image tip.