Google News, a vital traffic source for movie publishers, is closing down in Spain next week following the introduction of a new law forcing the search giant to pay magazines to display their articles.

A call girl has been arrested following the death of a Google Executive who died last year on his yacht after being given an injection of heroin.

Google has refused to comply with a request from the Turkish government to remove a string of Youtube videos that allege corruption.

An article featured on Mashable has become a hot topic after it attacked the Google+ service and divided readers who were for and against the arguments, making a bold and defiant statement.

Prior to Hotfile.com’s demise, the site boasted thousands of hours of TV shows and movies that it had allegedly infringed from content producers including 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal and Microsoft.

Google’s decision to integrate Youtube comments with Google+ has received a mixed reception, and the decision is no doubt controversial, however, surely there is an upside to this new set of rules?