Google, the Web’s top search company and one of technology’s most influential powers in Washington, will post a link on the company’s home page tomorrow to notify users of the company’s opposition to controversial antipiracy bills being debated in Congress. Google confirmed in a statement that it will join Wikipedia, Reddit and other influential tech …

Google’s social network, Google+, is looking to close the gap on rival Facebook following a Christmas advertising campaign on American TV that included a raft of celebrity appearances… and even the muppets. The network, which launched to the public in September, currently has around 62 million users, dwarfed by Facebook’s global reach of around 800 …

Google Inc and Facebook trotted out a variety of new social networking features in back-to-back announcements Tuesday, underscoring their intensifying competition for Web surfers. Google integrated its flagship search engine into its 3-month old social network — with membership now open to the Internet public — and expanded its “Hangouts” video-chat feature to allow mobile …

Paul Adams is one of Silicon Valley’s most wanted. He’s an intellectually minded product designer with square-framed glasses, a thick Irish accent, and a cult following of passionate techies. As one of Google’s lead social researchers, he helped dream up the big idea behind the company’s new social network, Google+: those flexible circles that let …

For the past three months, Google+, the company’s social network, was available only to users who had been invited by the company or by friends who already had access to the site. “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal,” Google’s Vic …