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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

Several Google services go down without warning around 11:50 UTC, including YouTube, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. The chatting app Discord and mobile video game "Pokémon Go" also go down. The cause was revealed to be an “authentication system outage” by the Google Cloud Twitter account.
2020-12-14

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announce the discovery of another cave that used to have Dead Sea Scrolls.
2017-02-8

The European Court of Justice decides an international agreement, generally known as a Safe Harbor rule, used by thousands of companies for moving people’s digital data between the European Union and the United States is invalid, effective immediately. The decision throws into doubt how global technology giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google can collect, manage, and analyze online information from their millions of users in the 28-member bloc. Decisions by this court, the highest legal authority in the EU, cannot be appealed.
2015-10-6

The U.S. International Trade Commission sides with Apple against a claim by Google that Apple's popular iPhones violate a Google patent.
2013-04-22

Iran plans to block use of the Google search engine, as it prepares to switch its citizens to a domestic internet network.
2012-09-23

Software company Oracle announces that it is looking for damages "in the billions of dollars" from Google in an ongoing patent law action over the smartphone.
2011-06-16

The U.S. state of Virginia is reported to be Googling "WikiLeaks" more than any part of the country.
2010-12-10

Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority announce plans to publish the Dead Sea Scrolls online.
2010-10-19

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