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• Google delivers robust Q1 growth

  Net income up 477% over Q1 last year

• Google hires top Kiwi talent

  Firefox lead engineer off to work for the search engine giant

• Google gets IPO green light from SEC

  Drops estimate of offering price of its shares

• Google faces discimination lawsuit

  Over-40s get a raw deal at Google, suit alleges

• Google: the better customer experience

  I was almost caught by an April Fool's joke this year. The memo said there was a meeting scheduled for 11am on April 1 to discuss firing all the secretaries and replacing them with one all-powerful secretary. I was on my way out of the door when I glanced at the calendar. Luckily no one had seen me on my way so I could quickly return to work and spend the rest of the day making fun of the gormless idiots who had actually gone to Boardroom 3. But the real joke arrived in the inbox the next day, forwarded by someone who said he was still sore from laughing.

• Google's new news

  Millions of words have been written about Google.com, the rapidly growing search engine that people love for its uncannily relevant results.