• FBI brass ask Google, Facebook to expand wiretaps
• The rise of Google - should we be worried?
• Now Hotpot? Google Probes Have Got to Stop

pcmag.com: Google imagine search and page preview mode are omens to the beginning of the end, trust me.

googleblog.blogspot: We’ve spent the past several months looking at how to strengthen our internal privacy and security practices, as well as talking to external regulators globally about possible improvements to our policies. Here’s a summary of the changes we’re now making.

• Google offers up to a 40% discount on all JPEGs -- with new WebP format!
• Using Google’s WebP image convertor in Ubuntu
• Google JPEG alternative speeds up web
• With WebP, Google Aims To Replace Yet Another Elemental Web Format

muktware.com: Google recently terminated Wave, but instead of purging the code the company will be releasing the source code of the project.

linuxjournal.com: Five days after the announcement of Voice and Video Chat service in Gmail for Debian-based Linux distributions, Google unveiled a Gmail phone call service for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Also: Installing Google Voice And Video Chat in openSUSE

washingtonpost.com: Google's Gmail isn't just a mailbox -- it now doubles as a phone. Users of Google's Web e-mail service can now call any phone in the U.S. or Canada for free from within their browser.

opensource.com: We've been together a long time. Had a lot of good times together. There are so many things about you I love. But I'm starting to think you might be losing sight of your best feature--that whole "don't be evil" thing.

computerworld.com: Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday.

blogs.computerworlduk: So far, so conventional. But there is a joker in the pack in this game: Google. It's striking that the bigger the company gets, the more it moves away from its natural geek roots, and its reflexive defence of everything that is important to hackers.

googleblog.blogspot: Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered.

earthweb.com: Everybody knows that Google offers lots of free services. Many are ad-supported. Others aren't. They're just free products that we can all use as a kind of publicly provisioned resource. That's how most of us see Google. But guess what? That's how Google sees you, too.

• So, Why Do We Trust Google with Our Data?
• The smart paranoid's guide to using Google

eff.org: Google has just announced that it is rolling out an encrypted version of its web search service. Several important points about encrypted Google search:

• Google opens sources $124.6m video codec
• VP8 Video Codec Freed. Now What?
• Google pounds the open standards drum during I/O keynote
• The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
• Mozilla and company announce WebM, VP8-based open video format project

lunduke.com: I am angry at Google. Nay. I am furious.

computerworld.com: A computer security researcher has launched a project designed to provide people greater privacy when using Google, as the company expands the scope of data its collects about its users.

shermann.name: Some secret source inside Google Inc. reported to us, that Google is going to acquire Novell, the Company who brought you Novell Netware.

Also: A different kind of company name

blogs.pcworld.co.nz: Following a spate of recent acquisitions Google's CEO Eric Schmidt announced this morning that the Mountain View-based company had bought Microsoft Corporation.

• Microsoft teams with Google in name of privacy
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• Google's plan to end Android fragmentation
• The State of the Internet Operating System
• What if all software was open source?