Google ridiculed as “peculiar and problematic” demands by EU antitrust regulators to change the way that it displays search results.

Ireland’s reputation as a favoured location for multinationals’ sprawling data centres will be further cemented by the construction of Google’s new €150m data centre in west Dublin.

Google plans to censor unauthorised nude photos from its influential internet search engine in a policy change aimed at cracking down on the malicious practice known as “revenge porn”.

The online world is scrambling to deal with Google’s new mobile search algorithm that comes into force today, with those that do not meet the new criteria set to drop down the search engine’s result rankings.