A new unified Google privacy policy is coming in March. The big change: Google clearly states that it will combine information from signed-in users from one product to other Google products in order to show more relevant search results and ads.

Ready for some more crazy YouTube stats? In the next minute, 60 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube, and by the end of today, 4 billion videos will have been watched around the globe on the world's most popular video-sharing site.

Google has updated its search results for queries involving punctuation marks and symbols. Though not perfect, searching for the symbol equivalent of a period, comma, carat, percent sign and more punctuation marks now will return search results.

Bing is evolving. Emphasis on the "ing." Microsoft's search engine is ditching the "decision engine" label and rebranding with a new message: Bing is for doing. And Bing is no doubt hoping that the rebranding will stop people from Googling.

Is your website ad heavy? You may be in trouble. Google has announced a new algorithm tweak that will lower the rankings of websites that Google determines is providing a bad user experience - a move Google hinted was in the works in November.

Google revenues topped $10 billion for the first time, but it wasn't good enough for investors, who were let down by the numbers that came in $300 million below analyst estimates )after subtracting ad commissions(. Profit grew to $2.71 billion.

By blacking out its logo and urging its users to "Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!" Google yesterday added 4.5 million names to a petition opposing controversial anti-piracy bills SOPA )Stop Online Piracy Act( and PIPA )Protect IP Act(.

To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American businesses, Google today has carried through on its promise to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act )SOPA( and Protect IP Act )PIPA( by blacking out its log.

Jerry Yang is leaving Yahoo, the company he co-founded with David Filo in 1995. Yang's resignation from the Yahoo board of directors and all other positions with the company, effective today, was announced via a press release minutes ago. &.

Generally, Google's trademark bare home page has only been used to celebrate significant birthdays and events with Google Doodles, or to promote Google features, such as Google Offers or the addition of a blue arrow to call attention to the .

Google today, on the 26th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, is honoring the holiday and legacy of the preacher of nonviolent activism with a special Google Doodle. King is most known for the "I Have a Dream.

Google is profiting from ads posted by illegal London 2012 Olympics ticket resellers, the BBC reported. These ads have since been removed, as have ads for cannabis, fake identification cards, and passports that the BBC found and reported to G.

Google must pay a $65,000 fine for suggesting the search term for "crook" when users typed in the name of France insurance company Lyonnaise de Garantie. Google must also remove the word "escroc" )"crook" in Fre.

If the weather outside today is more "delightful" than "frightful" where you live and you're wishing for some snow without all the hassles of shoveling, there's one place you can definitely see some )virtual( sn.