YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find.

Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event:

The Gartner Group reported last week that the almost meteoric rise of the iPhone and the longer steady rise of the RIM Blackberry have been largely at the expense of Microsoft and their Windows Mobile platform.

Here we go again. Another week, another country threatening to take legal action against Google for its Street View service. Although it’s pretty clear by now that Street View is legal and doesn’t inhibit the right to privacy, Google continues to get it in the neck from each new country it adds to the line-up of countries on show. The latest to throw its toy out the pram is Switzerland.

The noose continues to tighten around Google Book Search as legal actions from all quarters restrict the source material that can be digitized and the uses that Google can make of them.

Google first announced its Chrome OS operating system in July. Many people were very interested to see what Google could do to enter the already crowded OS market. Those people may now not have to wait much longer as there are rumors that Google Chrome OS is to “launch within a week.”

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp will disappear from Google indexing sometime in the coming months.

If Google is to be believed, by replacing the existing HTTP protocol, we could see the Web double in speed.

Google wants to make sure you have more than enough room to store all of your digital images, and they want to make sure you can have it at a price you can afford.

Google’s location app, Latitude, is getting a bit more horsepower today as it adds location history and alerts for when your friends are near.

News Corporation supremo Rupert Murdoch says he may block Google from indexing any content from his Web sites, accusing the search engine of “stealing” content. Google appears unconcerned by the threat and noted that Murdoch could simply request that it no longer link to his sites.

Despite a great deal of consternation by users of their myriad services about the huge amounts of data gathered on users by Google, their founder and CEO says that they are trying hard not to be “creepy.”

When the Motorola Android smartphone finally went on sale yesterday after a pre-release period full of hype and frenzy, the reaction of consumers at Verizon stores was not exactly red hot.

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Google has launched a new Commerce Search engine to aid retailers in making sure customers find just the information they need.

Google has unveiled a new tool allowing registered users to see all the data the firm stores about them which relates to their account. As well as seeing the data, users can easily wipe part or all of it.

Google has launched a new beta version of its Chrome browser which adds the ability to sync bookmarks across multiple computers.

Google has money in the bank and intends to use it to buy up smaller companies that have developed products that are on the projected corporate development path of the search giant.