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Google is offering an encrypted option for Web searchers, meaning that users in regimes that monitor citizens' web habits may be able to conduct searches without governments knowing.

As the eerily familiar bleeps and bloops of video games past began eminating from my computer this morning, a friend nearby immediately recognized them and quipped that he'd spent "way too much time and brain cells playing that game".

That game is Pac-Man and it's featured in a playable Google Doodle for the next 48 hours on the Google homepage.

Today is day two of Google I/O, Google’s developers conference. Yesterday, Google used its keynote.

Google said it plans to launch a store for online applications that run in its Chrome Web browser and operating system, the Internet giant's latest push to encourage developers to build software that runs online.

On the heels of rumors that Google TV will be unveiled at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco in May comes a report by The Financial Times that gives a name to the project: Smart TV.

Google says it has inadvertently scooped up snippets of people's online activities broadcast over unprotected Wi-Fi networks during the past four years.

Search giant Google is closing its Web store after just five months and will sell its Nexus smartphone in traditional retail outlets.

Every day, 268 million people use Google Inc. tools to search for something. The query goes in, the company's software programs, called spiders, crawl the Web, and deliver back the most relevant links.

You’ve spilled coffee on your keyboard. The a, e, i, o, u, and r keys have stopped working. Now try to search Google for the nearest computer repair shop.

Google is planning to introduce Android-based television software to developers at an event in May, according to people familiar with the matter.