Someone has apparently ripped the Google logo off the wall of its Santa Monica office. Much like Google ripped off the idea of AdSense, the system for targeting ads to websites' content, from the Santa Monica-based startup Applied Semantics, which it later bought. (For the record, Valleywag deplores any and all ripoffs.) (Photo by coneee)

Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee and sister-in-law to founder Sergey Brin, is a liar. In a puff-piece profile of Wojcicki and her Menlo Park house, whose garage served as Google's first office, a USA Today reporter lazily transcribes the claim that Wojcicki invented AdSense. AdSense, of course, is the system that places Google ads on other websites, and generates billions of dollars in revenue for Google. But Wojcicki didn't invent it.