In an announcement by the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Google has won a legal fight where it was accused by the Australian regulator of misleading customers by failing to adequately distinguish between advertisements and organic search results. The case, which first began in March 2010, argued that Google played a part in the publication of advertisements on its search pages, where the headline, description and link didn’t actually represent the company placing the ad, suggesting that not only was the advertiser engaging in false advertising and deceptive conduct, Google was also....

Google MENA has been hard at work in the Middle Eastern region, hosting several events inEgypt,Saudi ArabiaandJordan, with one upcoming event in theUAE. In addition, Google brought itsAmbassador Programto the Middle East, and finally, has also launched an initiative focusing on small businesses, starting in Saudi Arabia, with plans to expand it throughout the region. According to Google, only 15% of businesses in the Middle Eastern Gulf region have an online presence, and the newest program plans to do something about it....

Google has some good news for the cash-strapped or tight-fisted: Workspace is now available for free to every user. Starting today, anyone with a Google account can use the integrated platform (formerly known as G Suite) to collaborate on the search giant’s productivity apps. The service essentially provides a more integrated system for using the likes of Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, and Docs. It’s not likely to revolutionize your user experience, but it will allow you to access Google apps in one central spot, rather than having to jump between them....

Google fellow Amit Singhal has said that the search giant is “actively working” on bringing back Realtime Search, repurposing the tool to include data from Google+ and other social networks,Mashable reports. Speaking during a search panel in Mountain View, California, Singhal admitted that “the value the product was providing was not enough,” indicating that the tool could be improved, despite it already indexing updates from Twitter, Facebook and other social services before it was removed from service....

The Twitterverse was in a flurry this week, as early adopters and tech enthusiasts excitedly dissectedGoogle‘s brand new social network, Google+. According to thePew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’sNew Media Indexfor the week of June 27-July 1, Google+ accounted for 35% of tweeted news links for the week, followed by a few global warming stories from British publications, the British government hacking an al Qaeda website and replacing bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes and the British economy and finally presidential candidate Rep....