South Africans used Google Search to find out more information about entertainment events and local celebrities this year.

The tech giant teams up with major retailers in a deal that sees the retailers pay Google a piece of each facilitated purchase.

The search engine discovers Russian operatives spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads on its products in an effort to meddle in the 2016 US election.

Anti-trust regulators will rule in the "next few months" whether Alphabet's Google abused its dominance of Internet searches and other areas.

The search engine giant promises to improve the ranking of its search results and revamp autocomplete to bury fake news articles.

Alphabet's Google has until 31 October to rebut €EU anti-trust charges that it uses Android to block competitors.

€EU anti-trust regulators plan to order Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search.

The company has been given an extra three weeks to respond to €EU antitrust charges that it abused its dominant position with Android.

The search engine giant will push sites with pesky content-blocking adverts down the mobile search ranks from January.

Google has released its annual Zeitgeist, a look into what the world was interested in this past year - based on trending topics and Google searches.

The Google app has been updated to better understand complicated search queries.

The social network expands its notifications centre to include smart and customisable reminders.