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Service for Private Google Searches Shuts Down

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 12, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

A service that allowed users to search Google without having their queries tracked has shut down after Google changed the site that the service was using to get results, the service said Tuesday. But Google said the site was never intended to be used for scraping of results and that changes were made for reasons unrelated to the service, called Scroogle.

YouTube Says Popcorn Hour Is Over

Peter Kafka in Media on November 20, 2009 at 12:53 pm PT

Want to watch YouTube on your TV? There are plenty of devices and services that let you do that, with more on the way. But starting next month, at least one gadget is getting its YouTube feed shut down: Syabas, which makes a line of set-top boxes called “Popcorn Hour,” says Google’s video site has told it to remove YouTube content from its offering beginning December 2.

AP Shakes Fist at Google, Tells Internet to Get Off Its Damn Lawn

Peter Kafka in Media on April 6, 2009 at 2:01 pm PT

The Associated Press is fed up with… the Internet, apparently. And it’s going to do… something about it. At the news-gathering co-op’s annual meeting today, AP chairman Dean Singleton let rip a sort of hellfire-and-brimstone speech in which he announced the AP’s vague plans to stop unnamed scoundrels from making money from their work. Unstated but obvious public enemy number one: Google.