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Google Search Appliance Used By British Builder

It wouldn’t be surprising if, at some point, in some fashion, we see some Google-brand housing.  After all, parts of the Googleplex are already pretty cozy, and a recent development has placed Google at the fingertips of one of Britain’s biggest builders.

British Teen Goofs: Tells Cops About eBay Money

Okay first, let's establish two things as public service announcements: Don't pay $200 for a PlayStation 2; if you stumble over almost 100 grand, don't tell anybody about it, especially not the government.

Corporate Study Shows You Should Pay More

More bandwidth, not bandwidth manipulation, has been one of the technical solutions offered as an answer to the growing capacity demands of services like VoIP and video. It's also been used as a rebuttal to telecom industry arguments against Net Neutrality, a rebuttal, um, rebutted in a new study sponsored by…

British Man Pushes Google On Defamation

Brian Retkin of domain registrar Dotworlds had been criticized for offering .USA domains for sale and spamming people with sales pitches after September 11, 2001. He has claimed Google's links to this criticism amounts to defamation.

Google: The British Are Coming For GMail!

The company that recently won the rights to the GMail trademark in the UK has taken its case Stateside. And if Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) is successful claiming its stake to GMail in the US as well, your @gmail.com address could change to @googlemail.com instead.

Insurgents Use Google Earth To Target British

During a raid on Iraqi insurgents, British Army intelligence made a chilling discovery. Insurgents were using Google Earth to locate soft targets at British bases in Basra.

The Age of Decadence in YouTube, Vice City

Technology, open access to information, freedom to say what you want, or challenging long-held social mores, have never - not once in history - sat well with everyone, especially ones that have adjusted well despite the lack of those things. So the Internet is now sprung upon us, a powerful vehicle for exactly those unsettling motivations, and people are freaking out about it as their kids learn about the world, not with their parents, but with YouTube.

Google Falters With British Small Businesses

It should come as no surprise that our friends across the pond like Google, but a recent survey indicated that British small business owners aren't as fond of the search engine giant as the average consumer is. The gap is significant, with a 27% difference in use - the business owners are, to a large degree, doing their searching elsewhere.

British Search Less But Find More?

Recent numbers are showing that Google is an even heavier hitter in the United Kingdom than in the United States.

Have You Read A British Blog Today?

There are plenty of readable choices in the blogosphere created by our compatriots across the Atlantic. Crafting a top ten list of them, as with most subjective ideas, yielded a couple of different approaches.