We don't think Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook deserve any thanks for their role in Egypt's protests—given that role consisted mainly of kicking activists off Facebook for using pseudonyms. But Wael Ghonim, the Google engineer who was kidnapped by the regime and has become the youthful face of the protests, wants to personally thank Zuckerberg:

According to the Wall Street Journal, both Google and Facebook have been in "low-level" talks to buy Twitter. As long as it keeps them from making some new dumb social-networking thing, we're all for it.

Google marketing executive Wael Ghonim, who went missing for two weeks, is extremely "happy and emotional" following his release today by Egyptian authorities. Indeed: Ghonim promptly asked for the resignation of the ruling party figure who sprung him from jail.

Missing Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim has been found! He was in government custody, of course, and he'll be released on Monday. And, as it turns out, Ghonim was a "key figure" in Egypt's ongoing uprising.

Dave Morin is among the luckiest guys in Silicon Valley. After a stint as an Apple college rep, he joined Facebook right before it blew up. Then Google offered $100 million for his obscure startup—and Morin rejected it.

A Google engineer suggests Bing may be pilfering the search giant's results, and has showed the results of Google's digital sting as proof. Bing says the results offer little more than a lesson in "click fraud." Shots fired!

Google's head of Middle East marketing has reportedly been missing for a week in Egypt after participating in the protests there. His wife has appealed for any information on his whereabouts.

After 10 years in the position, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is poised to step down and transfer day-to-day responsibilities to co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt, known for his puzzling utterances, also enjoys the word "literally." A lot. A whole, whole lot.

Brooklyn resident Alexander Chen built this cool, melodic web page that represents New York subway lines as ever-growing strings that are "plucked" by intersecting trains. Best of all, it's built off a live feed of actual train data.

Having failed to sell his "disaster" of a TV show, Eric Schmidt is now shopping a book proposal. Because, honestly, what else is Google's CEO going to do? Oversee the biggest, most profitable and indispensable site on the internet? Please.

Google made waves today with software that purports to banish ad tracking cookies. In reality, virtually no one will use the software, it doesn't banish ad tracking cookies, and Google itself is the leading tracker to begin with.

Google's soon-to-be-ex CEO reportedly filmed a pilot for CNN as part of a year-long effort to find a TV job. The only problem: It was really, really bad.

Larry Page just bought a $45 million, 193-foot, helicopter-ready superyacht from a New Zealand businessman. Apparently the Google co-founder and recent father wasn't content with his jetliners and fighter plane. Pics of the yacht below.

Nobody knows the identity of the rogue engineer who "accidentally" programmed Google's Street View cars to slurp up emails, passwords and other data from nearby wi-fi networks. But South Korea wants to find out, and punish them.

Technology seemed especially relevant in 2010, what with The Social Network's blockbuster receipts and mass mania for Apple's iPad and iPhone 4. The newfound attention helped turned some techies into genuine stars — while lending others real worldwide infamy.

Since May, Los Angeles high schooler Jeremy Marks has been in jail—essentially for filming a school police officer hit a 15-year-old. He'll be home for Christmas, though, thanks to a Google engineer who heard about Marks on Reddit.

Google's snapping up of the massive 111 Eighth Avenue office building in Chelsea, where it already occupies 550,000 square feet, is an even pricier purchase than previously thought, the Post's Lois Weiss reports.

The Federal Communications Commission today approved rules discouraging internet access providers from charging websites for favorable treatment. That might sound like a good thing, but it's actually a terrible surrender to big business, or alternatively a communist plot.

Does Google have any chance at all of competing with arch-rival Facebook? Not really, former Google bigwig Paul Buchheit says. Buchheit tells us his old company will probably find it easier to land on the moon.

The Federal Communications Commission is now expected to approve a watered down version of net neutrality tomorrow, preventing internet service providers from discriminating between websites. It's a nice gift for internet activists, who have been pushing for this for years.