Ah, the President. No matter which side of the aisle you sit on, you're a target for ridicule. A few years ago some pranksters used the practice of Googlebombing to link George W. Bush's bio to the query "miserable failure" (as shown). A few disgruntled tech-savvy users on the other side of the aisle decided to repeat the favor for Barack Obama, but Google has already scrubbed their effort, at the same time revealing their new algorithm for doing so.

Those of you who have been using Google's News Search service know that it has shun using it's famous contextual advertising on those pages. The economy has changed it.

On Friday the Pope joined other global dignitaries such as Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II with YouTube Channels, as Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the Vatican's YouTube Channel.

Google announced its Q4 and year 2008 earnings after the market closed on Thursday, and despite the recession, the search leader produced better-than-expected results.

Liskula Cohen is going to court in an attempt to unmask the blogger of Skanks in NYC who was mean about her.

Google Timeline View which is among one of the Google experiments has been seen in action in the main Google Search results page.

Earlier many webmasters speculated that there was a Toolbar Pagerank Update on-going in December 2008. Today just before New Year’s eve Google surprised everyone with their Toolbar PageRank update rolled out to every website.

NORAD and Google have been best buds since 2007 in terms of Santa tracking, with the ability to track Santa via Google Earth, watch YouTube video of Santa's flight, and track him on Google Maps on NORAD's site as well. And this year, Santa has decided to tweet updates via Twitter, as well.

Google's (GOOG) shares are gaining enemies. Optimists think that the search firm is the most efficient way for companies to reach customers so it will not be hurt much by the recession.

Yep, Apple released the 2.2 version of the iPhone software today, as expected, and it's big. And by big I don't mean just feature-wise, but size-wise. For comparison's sake, the 2.1 update was 237.8 MB; this one is 246.4 MB.

In yet another cosmetic change designed to pretty-up its Gmail web-based email client, Google announced Wednesday that it has added themes. Typical of a cloud-based service, it's rolling out to users gradually, so you may not see it --- a Themes tab in your Gmail settings --- just yet. They say it'll take a couple of days to hit all users.

One of the biggest photo collections in the world is now available to the public online, thanks to Life Magazine and Google. Most of the photographs, which ranges from the 1750s through the present day have never been seen before.