It was the start of a four-day weekend for many families, and roads across Germany were already set to be clogged by people heading off on a May holiday break. Then Google Maps decided to redirect ...

It looks like Germany will be the first place to implement a so-called “Google tax,” after its parliament passed a law forcing search engines and news aggregators to pay royalties to publishers for ...

Germany's competition regulator is looking into possible abuses related to how Google operates its Maps product. The determination lowers the bar for regulatory intervention to address potential ...

To address Google's "exceptional" power in Europe, Germany's justice minister Heiko Maas has called on the search company to reveal how it creates search engine rankings. As Google and the European ...

From now on, publishers wanting their content to appear on Google News in Germany will have to opt in. On Friday, Google announced it had changed Google News from an opt-out to an opt-in system ...

Google will be launching Google Home in Germany soon. A newly published video on Google Germany’s YouTube channel reveals that the company’s smart speaker will be hitting German retailers on August ...

Google has changed the way that Google News works: but only in Germany. The change is as a result of legal changes in that country. Essentially, now, German publishers can or have to opt in to their ...

Germany's privacy regulator has fined Google 145,000 euros ($189,000) after the search giant illegally collected private Wi-Fi network data, including usernames, passwords and Web site results. It ...

This would be annoying at a personal level as well as being slightly strange on the larger one. For we use Google Maps in Germany to guide trucks to a mining site. But that's of course a minor point ...

Google suffered another loss in a German court ruling. On Tuesday, Germany's Federal Court of Justice ruled that Google's autocomplete feature, which automatically generates search suggestions based ...

Reader Michiel Ouwerkerk just dropped an email to say that Google Germany has disappeared. Sure enough, when I go there, I get a holding page from what looks to be hosting company Goneo: The message ...

Samsung has commenced the rollout of its Android 16-based One UI 8 beta for the flagship Galaxy S25 series under the beta programme. The update is currently available in select countries including ...