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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 13: The Google logo is displayed in front of company headquarters during the Made By Google event on August 13, 2024 in Mountain View, California.

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Google launches a lawsuit targeting text message scammers

Ever gotten a text saying you forgot to pay a nonexistent road toll or need to pick up a mystery package? Google's going after the scammers behind those messages.

November 12, 2025
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  • John Ruwitch
An aerial view of Meta’s Stanton Springs Data Center on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Newton County, Georgia. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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  • News

A ‘wave’ of data center ordinances sweep through GA counties. How strict are they?

Throughout several counties in and around Atlanta, contractors are grading soil and importing building materials, and construction crews are hammering away to build warehouses with cooling equipment that will house massive, hyper-scale computing servers.

October 22, 2025
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By:
  • Kala Hunter and
  • The Ledger Enquirer
Street sign of Rumble Road in Monroe County, Georgia, where Google has purchased land to build a data center. Courtesy of The Telegraph

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  • News

Google drops $42 million on Monroe County land for a data center. What we know

Google has purchased about 950 acres of land off I-75 and Rumble Road in Monroe County to build a data center, according to county property records.

October 14, 2025
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By:
  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
A cursor moves over Google's search engine page, in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2018. The most valuable information Google is being forced to share under Judge Amit Mehta's ruling is users' click-and-query data. That refers to the information Google collects from users about what they search for (the queries) and what links they select (the clicks).

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  • Technology

A judge ordered Google to share its search data. What does that mean for user privacy?

The ruling in the Google antitrust trial has led to a host of hard-to-answer questions about the future of Google's search data, which the tech giant must now share with competitors. What does that mean for users' data privacy?

September 19, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
This photo, in New York, taken Sept. 11, 2023, shows various Google logos when searched on Google.

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  • Business

What does the Google antitrust ruling mean for the future of AI?

A federal judge's mild ruling in the Justice Department's suit over Google's search engine monopoly has critics worried that the tech giant can now monopolize artificial intelligence.

September 18, 2025
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  • John Ruwitch
A man walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on Feb. 13, 2025.

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  • Business

In a major antitrust ruling, a judge lets Google keep Chrome but levies other penalties

A federal judge ruled against breaking up Google, but is barring it from making exclusive deals to make its search engine the default on phones and other devices.

September 02, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Liz Reid, Google's head of search, speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., on May 14, 2024. While many factors often drive traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews has led to dramatic declines for news outlets and other online information sources.

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  • Technology

Online news publishers face 'extinction-level event' from Google's AI-powered search

While many factors often drive traffic fluctuations, publishers say the introduction of Google's AI Overviews has led to dramatic declines for news outlets and other online information sources.

August 02, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn and
  • John Ruwitch
A woman walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on Feb.13, 2025.

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  • Technology

Should a court break up Google? The tech giant made its final stand today

Last summer a federal judge ruled that Google had monopolized the search market. Now the Justice Department and the tech giant had one last chance to argue over what the penalties should be.

May 30, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Google CEO Sundar Pichai exits federal court in Washington, D.C., on April 30.

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  • Business

In court, CEO Sundar Pichai defends Google against the DOJ's 'extraordinary' proposals

Sundar Pichai testified in the remedies trial that will determine the penalties Google will face for monopolizing the search engine market.

May 02, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
An illustration photograph taken on Feb. 20, 2025 shows Grok, DeepSeek and ChatGPT apps displayed on a phone screen. The Justice Department's 2020 complaint against Google has few mentions of artificial intelligence or AI chatbots. But nearly five years later, as the remedy phase of the trial enters its second week of testimony, the focus has shifted to AI.<br>

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  • Business

Why Google's search engine trial is about AI

What started off as an antitrust trial about Google's dominance in the search engine market has led to a penalties phase that is focused on its role in artificial intelligence.

April 29, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
In 2001, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates comments at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., on the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to overturn a lower court's ruling that the software giant be broken up.

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  • Technology

Decades later, the Microsoft antitrust case casts a shadow over the Google trial

A nearly 30-year-old legal case looms large over the U.S. government's antitrust case against Google. A judge is hearing arguments to decide the penalties to levy against the search giant.

April 24, 2025
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Abigail Slater, US assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, speaks to members of the media outside federal court in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 21, 2025. Google will square off against the Justice Department and dozens of state attorneys general in a Washington court room over what changes the judge will order to prevent the company from monopolizing the online search market.

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  • Business

The Justice Department and Google battle over how to fix a search engine monopoly

After a federal judge ruled that Google had a monopoly on the search market, the tech giant and the government are in court to debate penalties. One possible result: forcing Google to spin off Chrome.

April 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
This photo, taken Sept. 11, 2023, shows various Google logos when searched on Google. If government regulators succeed in forcing Google to spin off its Chrome browser business, it's likely to unleash drastic changes designed to undermine the dominance of the Google search engine.

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  • Business

The Justice Department is about to make its case for a Google breakup. Here's what to know

Google and the Justice Department will face off in the final stage of a landmark antitrust case that could force the company to spin off its Chrome browser business.

April 20, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022.

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  • Obituaries

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley visionary, dies at 56

Over the past three decades, Susan Wojcicki had a knack for seeing a startup's potential. Her intuition helped shape the growth of YouTube and Google.

August 10, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Various Google logos are displayed on a Google search on Sept. 11, 2023, in New York. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Monday that Google's ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world's best-known companies.

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  • Business

Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance

The highly anticipated decision comes nearly a year after the start of a trial pitting the U.S. Justice Department against Google in the country's biggest antitrust showdown in a quarter century.

August 05, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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