SF News Google Takes the Wheel With Driverless Vehicles by Andrew Dalton Over the weekend, a Google software engineer announced on the company's blog that the Big G has been testing autonomously-driven vehicles all over California's highways and byways. You may have
SF News Better Business Bureau Thinks Google is Just Average by Andrew Dalton Say what you will about the Better Business Bureau's pay-to-play accreditation model (and whether or not BBB ratings actually mean anything at this point), but they're still tasked with slogging
SF News Google's New Instant-Results Search Goes Live For those of you who use Google, you might recall yesterday's bubbly Google logo that swept balls to and fro. (For those of you who use Yahoo, we look forward to seeing you
SF News Oakland Homicide Suspects Seen In Grainy Surveillance Video Yesterday, the Oakland Police Department released video footage of a man and woman "believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old Virginia man on Sunday night." The suspects are accused
SF News Scientists to Map California Coastline Using Laser Beams Move over Google Maps. Beginning next month, a team of scientists is set to map 1,200 miles of California coastline using lasers, computer software and airplanes. It will be the most detailed
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: What is Google TV? Well, if it's anything like Buzz, it's sure to be a smashing success. Oh, come now, we kid. You know we love you, Google. Deeply. No, really, deeply. Which is why we're excited
SF News Old Dude Sues Google Over Age Discrimination Brian Reid, 60, claims that he was laid off from Google in 2004, at the age of 54, because he was too old. He was told at the time of the layoff that
SF News Google Logo Playable Pac Man Game Though always spectacular, Google's logo art isn't particularly newsworthy. Until today. In honor of Pac Man's 30th birthday, the Mountain View-based company created a Pac Man logo that you can actually play. Visit
SF News Your Top 10 Google Searches Are... In March scores of people used Google to find "yahoo," which was the seventh most searched word of the month. Gee, that's rich. Anyway, the top ten words were gmail (10), yahoo.com
SF News Google CEO Slams Bloggers While we know the luminous, chiseled Sergey Brin would never say something so cruel about bloggers, Google CEO and aging Burner Eric Schmidt, while trying to ingratiate himself to the book-sniffing crowd at
SF News Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google's Eric Schmidt Sartorially Awkward Date Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt met for coffee in Palo Alto last week. The power geeks, as Valleywag's Ryan Tate already covered, have been in a bro fight for
SF News Google Likely to Cancel Operations in China by Amy Crocker According to the Wall Street Journal, it's increasingly likely that Mountain View-based Google will cancel operations in China as negotiations with the government over censorship stall. There's a lot of
SF News Google Maps Adds Biking Directions Say you've taken a bike ride out to Sutro Baths, lollygagged on the sands of Ocean Beach, and then brunched at the Cliff House. It's kind of cold out there, right? A bit
SF News Google, Kansas In an effort to get Google to use their town to test out FIber (their "1Gbps fiber-to-the-home Internet service experiment") the town of Topeka, Kansas renamed itself "Google" for the month of March.
SF News Locate Friends, Relatives in Chile Via Google's Person Finder The Bay Area's small Chilean community, made up of roughly 2,500 people, is scrambling to get in touch with loved ones in Chile after last night's earthquake. Today, Google launched a Person
SF News Google Fiber, Ultra-High Speed Broadband, Is Coming Fresh off of unveiling its Facebook-ish Buzz -- which, over the last 24 hours, we've been using with surprising frequency, and very much enjoying -- Google wants to dip its toes in the
SF News Google Buzz Takes Aim at Facebook, Twitter Today, Google unveiled some sort of Facebook-ish addition to your Gmail called 'Buzz.' According to the LA Times, it "incorporates social media tools such as photo and video sharing and status updates
SF News Google To Pull Out Of China? by Amy Crocker Google has threatened to pull out of China after massive cyber attacks against itself and other foreign companies. If it doesn't walk away entirely, Google has said it will stop
SF News Yelp Walks Away from Google Deal That's right, folks. According to TechCrunch, Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman walked away from the all-but-signed deal to sell the company to Google for a reported $550 million. Given that there is no other
SF News Google to Acquire Yelp? Google is apparently in serious talks to acquire Yelp, the user-generated, local-business review site so beloved by Humphry Slocombe and certain antique and book store owners. The deal would do good things for
SF News Google's 'Nexus One' Phone by Amy Crocker Google will market its own cellphone as early as next year, according to the Wall Street Journal. This phone, called Nexus One, will be sold without a connection to a
SF News Google, Schwarzenegger Unveil Tool to Battle Climate Change by Jerry James Stone Internet search giant Google has unveiled a version of Google Earth that predicts both sea level changes and wild fire danger caused by global warming. One of the many
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Google SF Office Parties In the U.S.A. For woefully explicable reasons, the fine folks at the San Francisco Google office yanked their brilliant lipsynch video set to Miley Cyrus' ode to a celebratory modern America -- which is, arguably, one
misc Interviewing at Google = Death By Brain Teasers A slew of alleged Google interview questions have been floating around the internet, and now we know for certain that we simply are not equipped to work for the giant who lords over
SF News <em>WSJ</em> Editor Confused By The Internet Pompous Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is, for lack of a better word, dim. And old. Case in point, he was, for some inexplicable reason, asked to speak at Web Summit
