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The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for their activism.
2024-10-24

Google's Russian subsidiary announces its intention to file for bankruptcy after Russian authorities seize the company's bank account.
2022-05-18

The European Parliament approves two revisions to the controversial Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. One resolution includes new requirements aimed at making companies pay licensing fees to publications such as newspapers whose work gets aggregated by online services. The second revision makes online platforms such as Google, Facebook and YouTube liable for the content posted on their services, meaning that all content providers must get permission from rights holders before uploading copyrighted material of any kind.
2019-03-26

Google introduces a so-called "fact checking" feature on its news aggregate service to combat alleged political bias.
2016-10-15

The European Union proposes offering Ukraine visa-free travel to its members. However, it is still unclear how fast the liberalization process will be dealt with in the European Parliament and European Council, where some EU member states might want to slow down the process.
2016-04-20

The Chinese government blocks some of Google's Gmail services.
2014-12-29

Google allows users to communicate with each other on Google Plus even if they are not friends.
2014-01-10

At the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Google unveils an initiative using Google Earth allowing users to view the effects of deforestation, impacts and videos on global warming and climate change.
2010-12-1

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