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According to legend, on July 8th, 1947, a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico and was recovered by the US Air Force. The event has become the cornerstone of an ever growing extraterrestrial cover-up mythology that spans continents and decades. But what if the alien just wanted to collect their busted ship and go home?

Christina Aguilera has fallen victim to an exceptionally strange search engine quirk: If you Google 'dying grandparent' in Google Images, it's predominantly images of her, and she's neither a grandparent nor dying. So what's going on?

Find yourself wishing the holidays were over already? Well, thanks to a bug in the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, the month of December has been canceled altogether. Is Google the new Grinch?

In one of the most unfortunate internet quirks we've ever seen, a Google Images search using the term "completely wrong" currently yields photo after photo of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Ouch! This won't help with his poll numbers for sure.

Good news, bad news. The bad news is that Google has been monitoring all your online activity and is using it for their own personal gain. The good news is at least it's fun to see if they guessed your age, gender and interests correctly. That's pretty good news ... right?

Google celebrates its 14th birthday today and it's hard to remember a time before "Google" was an every day action.

Not sure if you've seen this or not but Erik Johnson created a site called Replacement Google, jokingly sponsored by the NFL.  Obviously, he's poking fun at the replacement NFL refs.  None of the searches you do on this site are correct and you never get the same results twice...

Tomorrow marks the 46th anniversary of 'Star Trek: The Original Series' and to help celebrate, Google has created an interactive new 'Star Trek' Google Doodle.

Today, Google is paying tribute to the man who perfected the zipper, Gideon Sundback,with a Google Doodle. Just put your pointer at the top and unzip.  Betcha can't do it just once.

I live for technology. No matter where I am or what I'm doing I always have my iPhone, a laptop, and an always-on internet connection. From the moment I wake up to the last minute before I go to sleep at night, I'm connected in some way to the internet. I think, more often than not, you are too, and it's all starting to become too much.

Homework will be harder to do and bar bets tougher to win today when Wikipedia goes dark for 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy legislation under consideration by the US Congress.

In what may be the perfect summation of the crazy year that was, Rebecca Black, the internet sensation who sang the notorious song ‘Friday,’ was the top Google search term for 2011. Granted, Google doesn’t take into account searches that were made ironically and/or while inebriated.