Some people are very sensitive about showing their underwear. These do not necessarily include people who wear extremely short skirts, droopy jeans, or minuscule tank tops. Lady Gaga is not included either. However, a Japanese woman is reportedly so incensed by seeing private items on her washing line appear on the very public Google Street View that she has decided to sue the company.

Google has released its annual 'Zeitgeist' list – a run down of the top searches in the UK, providing a handy cross section of the nations concerns, interests, and celebrity crushes.

Google's ultra-secret social project is slowly becoming less and less secret. Last week, a Quora posting revealed a new internal codename for the social initiative, as well as the affirmation that it's being tested. Yesterday, TechCrunch got its hands on a screenshot exposing a “share” button and also reaffirmed a possible new name, Google +1.

Google has launched an app store for its Chrome internet browser. The Chrome Web Store allows users to download applications and games that can then be played through Google's web browser. A number of leading games firms have already published titles for Chrome, including Electronic Arts, Bigpoint and Zynga.

There have been many rumors about Google launching its new eBook venture by the end of the year, and today, it is official, the new Google eBookstore is born, offering over 3 millions eBooks.

Google has been fined the princely sum of $1 for trespassing with its Street View cameras.

Looks like Facebook can dominate the market a little bit longer, as Google is pushing back its social plans as far back as April 2011.

Google is being investigated for allegedly placing rivals' services lower in its search results, a move that would be an abuse of its dominant position in online search. The European Commission, the regulatory arm of the European Union, opened a formal antitrust investigation into the matter after receiving complaints from other specialized search providers.

What kind of turban would Ashley Olsen wear? Google's computers know. And they desperately want to tell you. The search-engine company on Wednesday launched a fashion site -- Boutiques.com -- that aims to use algorithms to help the world's internet users dress a bit more awesomely.

Before going on the attack for Google TV.

Google Street View has been used to spot a car theft suspect, revealing that sometimes its ability to spy can be put to good use. Much like a CCTV camera pointed into your window that could catch the odd burglar. A caravan owner, who was not named, was dismayed to find that his 4-by-4 vehicle, which was parked just outside his caravan on private property, was stolen. Instead of pursuing normal avenues of inquiry the owner logged onto Street View.

The Google Chrome browser team has announced that free Wi-Fi will be available in the clouds (the real ones, not the metaphoric one where all of our data is stored) as a result of a deal with three US airlines.

Things have been so quiet on the Chrome OS front that I had nearly forgotten Google promised netbooks in time for the holidays. If reports out of Taiwan are accurate, the first models should arrive later this month.

The US Department of the Interior told potential suppliers of a new email system that it will only consider tenders based on Microsoft products, web giant Google has alleged in an lawsuit against the government body.

Google TV already includes Flash Player 10.1 as part of the platform - it needs that to play everything on YouTube as well as many of the other video sites it turns into TV channels (and for the full experience when you're browsing web pages). That means if there's a Flash game on a web page, you'll be able to play it on the first version of Google TV.

Google is claiming a record slice of the world's internet traffic, according to a recent report. Web security and monitoring firm Arbor Networks said that its latest records pegged Google with a 6.4 per cent share of all online traffic in September.

Google TV has encountered its first major glitch, with mainstream broadcasters blocking their TV programmes from being displayed on the new smart TV.

Google Earth can apparently find anything including the being that post-modernist philosophers claim is dead. If you visit Google Earth and pop to here you will see God manifesting over a lake in Quarten, Switzerland.

Google has built a fleet of cars that drive themselves, and over the past several months, these robotic vehicles have driven over 140,000 miles on public roads, from the Pacific Coast Highway to the famous twists and turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street.

The Net giant is a major investor in a project to carry power from offshore wind turbines to the East Coast of the United States.