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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce they are stepping down as CEO and president respectively from the company. Sundar Pichai will become the new CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. effective immediately.
2019-12-3

The European Court of Justice rules in favour of United States search engine Google in a landmark right to be forgotten case, rejecting a French privacy regulator's argument that Google should apply the rules to its results and domains globally and not only within the European Union.
2019-09-24

Google starts deleting consumer accounts from its social network Google+ due to low user engagement and the discovery of security vulnerabilities which potentially exposed user data to developers.
2019-04-2

A lawsuit brought against Google by Oracle Corporation accusing Google of using copyrighted code for the Android operating system is decided in Google's favor.
2016-05-26

Internet analytics company ComScore says Google's Gmail has edged out Microsoft's Hotmail as the world's top e-mail service.
2012-11-1

China denies it is disrupting access to Google's email service in the country.
2011-03-22

Google ends a redirect to its Hong Kong site in China and provides a new method of reaching unfiltered results after the Chinese government threatened to end its Internet Content Provider license.
2010-06-29

A study indicates that the Pac-Man game Google put on its home page Friday led to the loss of almost five million man-hours (or 550 years) of work time.
2010-05-25

Google begins to phase out its support for Internet Explorer 6 after it was identified as a weak link in cyber attacks on the search engine.
2010-01-30

Foreign journalists in China say their emails have been hacked, as Google pulls out of launching its Android mobile phones.
2010-01-19