Google and the National Security Agency's possibly secret relationship will remain secret. The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the NSA's decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google.

Some Google users in a test group are seeing a big change to their search results. Search queries for movies, TV shows, people, sports teams, music, books are among those triggering these direct answers directly on Google's search result pages.

Inktomi back in the day was the top search engine and worth billions. But the story that you don't hear very often is how it died. Diego Basch, a current LinkedIn employee and former Inktomi engineer tells his version of the story.

Ever wanted to find really random sites or articles, but when you search in Google all you get are results from the most popular websites? Meet Million Short, a new search engine that lets you purge up to 1 million of the web's most prominent sites.

Three new features are coming to Google News in the U.S. Google is increasing the size of images on its main page, adding a new Realtime Coverage page, and adding Google+ discussions about news stories, the company announced.

Wil Wheaton may no longer be the "mortal enemy" of fictional character Sheldon Cooper on the CBS TV Show "The Big Bang Theory", but the actor and writer isn't hiding his contempt for how Google is forcing Google+ down the throats of users.

Wil Wheaton may no longer be the "mortal enemy" of fictional character Sheldon Cooper on the CBS TV Show "The Big Bang Theory", but the actor and writer isn't hiding his contempt for how Google is forcing Google+ down the throats of users.

Do you love beer? Do you love Android? Meet KegDroid, a revolutionary new way to get your beer! Designed by a Google employee, KegDroid's design lets you select and order your beer at the click of a button and then dispenses your favorite brew.

First there was Google Play. Now you can play Google Maps. Google has released Cube, a Google Maps-based game where you take control of a small blue ball and navigate it around various cities while learning factoids about Google Maps.

Google has announced that the "rotate" feature in AdWords will change starting next week. The change limits ad rotation to 30 days. After the 30 days, AdWords will optimize and show the ads that are converting the best and getting the most clicks.

Google has announced that you can now see up to 90 days of historical data in your Webmaster Tools Search Queries reports instead of the previous 35 days. Three features - subscriber stats, robots.txt tool, and site performance features are gone.

Google has announced the Google+ Share button. Google has made it very easy for website owners to embed the Google+ share button on their websites and visitors to easily share content to their Google+ page from anywhere on the web.

Google has started testing out a variety of customer service endorsements within paid search ads. About a dozen of the "couple hundred" retailers participating in the Google's Trusted Stores' program are taking part in this ad experiment.

A couple of weeks ago, Google was facing scrutiny from lawmakers over their human trafficking ads policy. In response, Google has shed some light on some of the systems it uses to prevent bad ads from showing up on Google's search results pages.

Lawmakers are concerned about human trafficking advertisements appearing on Google. In a letter to CEO Larry Page, they are requesting Google share its policy for sexually exploitative advertisements and how it ensures those policies are followed.

Google will allow you to tag up to 1,000 ZIP codes within the U.S. using AdWords Location Targeting. Location insertion for local extensions will help you create custom local ads. And four enhancements are coming to advanced location targeting.

The goal of Google's self-driving car project is to make driving safer, more enjoyable, and efficient. How safe is it? Well, Google recently let one man who lost 95 percent of his vision and doesn't even have a driver's license behind the wheel.

IETF engineers are currently discussing steps to overhaul Hypertext Transfer Protocol in an effort to modernize and speed up the 1990s technology. SPDY by Google and HTTP Speed+ Mobility by Microsoft are among the proposals for HTTP 2.0.

The online giant is spending enormous amounts of money on TV, magazine, and newspaper ads to promote Google+, Chrome, and other products. Google is now spending around the same percentage of revenue as companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

Google recently announced the addition of a status insights icon to the Ads tab. This new feature provides visibility into the approval status and whether an ad is showing for the specific keyword or keywords that you're targeting.