Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 11:35 GMT | news.bbc.co.uk

A legal challenge to the way Google calculates the popularity of websites for its internet search engine results has been thrown out.

US District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel dismissed the case, brought by parenting information site KinderStart.

KinderStart alleged Google had severely damaged its business by cutting it from its web search ranking system.

But Judge Fogel said KinderStart had "failed to explain how Google caused injury" to the company.

By Tariq Ali | 02/20/2008 | isedb.com/db/articles

Space Data Corp launches 10 balloons a day across the U.S. providing telecom services to truckers and oil companies. The company wants to use that same idea to beam down wireless service to rural areas of the U.S.

According the the Wall Street Journal, Google is interested in contracting or even buying the company to help its push into the wireless business. Space Data and Google declined to comment.

25 February 2008 12:26 PM | business.scotsman.com/industry

GOOGLE, the American internet search giant, has been voted the UK's number one brand in the latest annual Superbrands survey.
The company knocked the BBC off top position and into fourth slot, while Microsoft took second position and oil giant BP snatched third place in the annual snapshot.

Stephen Cheliotis, chairman of the Superbrands council which oversees the survey, said the list was intended to reflect brands which have "established the finest reputations."

February 25, 2008: 07:10 AM EST | /money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds

LONDON, Feb. 25, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) -- UK small caps hit a session high at midday, lifted by strength among blue chip stocks, with Infoserve more than doubling as it resumed AIM trading and announced a major contract with Google.

At 11.47 am, the FTSE Small Cap index was 24.5 points higher on 3,232.8, a session high, as the FTSE 100 index rose 96.9 to 5,985.4