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The High Court of Australia rules that Google is not liable for defamatory material within hyperlinks that it serves as part of its search results.
2022-08-17

Spotify announces it will suspend all political ads on its platform starting early 2020. It follows similar moves from Twitter and Google.
2019-12-27

Google agrees to pay a record US$170 million penalty to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold advertisements to children, the Federal Trade Commission says.
2019-09-4

Google announces that it is setting aside $750 million in land and $250 million in financing to encourage developers in the San Francisco area to build and rehabilitate housing, in order to ease the homeless crisis in a region where Google has 45,000 employees.
2019-06-18

The organizers of the Google Lunar X Prize announce that the $20 million grand prize for a commercial lunar lander will expire on 31 March 2018 without a winner because none of its five finalist teams would be able to launch a mission before the deadline.
2018-01-23

U.S. senators question lawyers representing Facebook, Twitter and Google about Russian activity on their platforms during the 2016 United States presidential election.
2017-10-31

Google artificial intelligence company DeepMind's AlphaGo program takes an unbeatable three to zero lead in a five-game Go match against grand master Lee Sedol.
2016-03-12

Chinese technology company Lenovo buys Motorola Mobility from Google for $3 billion to create its own mobile device unit.
2014-01-30

Google+, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google, is released to the general public.
2011-09-21

Google stops censoring its search results in China, redirecting users to its Hong Kong site.
2010-03-22