Sources: CNN
Google announces it will ban targeted ads that use voter data, effective within a week. 2019-11-20
European Union regulators fine Google €1.49 billion for bundling Google Custom Search with its AdSense program which the regulators find as illegal under EU antitrust rules. 2019-03-20
Google introduces a so-called "fact checking" feature on its news aggregate service to combat alleged political bias. 2016-10-15
Google creates a new holding company called Alphabet Inc. containing Google Inc. and Calico containing Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and other subsidiaries. 2015-08-10
Google allows users to communicate with each other on Google Plus even if they are not friends. 2014-01-10
Reuters reports on the basis of "people familiar with the matter" that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is close to bringing an antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of the search engine market. 2012-10-13
Google+, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google, is released to the general public. 2011-09-21
Google agrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to have an independent privacy audit every couple of years as a result of problems with the Google Buzz social network. 2011-03-31
A rally takes place outside Google's offices in the U.S. state of California against a proposal to change online data treatment. 2010-08-14
Google stops censoring its search results in China, redirecting users to its Hong Kong site. 2010-03-22