As Google Me nears, Google pays out $8.5m to settle Buzz privacy case

You can bet that Google won’t be repeating this when it launches its planned Facebook challenging social network, possibly called Google Me as it pays out $8.5m to settle a class action privacy case stemming from the launch of Google Buzz.

Clearly this is not about the money, the amount is chump change to the search firm, but it does underscore how badly thought out the launch of flop Google Buzz was. Read More »