Google has hired 4chan founder and former owner Chris Poole, a.k.a. moot, for a yet-to-be-announced position. “I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online ...

The day after one of the worst mass shootings in recent US history, 4chan fooled everyone about who the gunman was. Again. And this time “everyone” was not a smattering of local and national outlets ...

Google's long ailing social network, Google+ is about to get a little help from the guy who built one of the most infamous online communities. Chris Poole, the founder of 4chan, a service perhaps best ...

Google has hired the founder of 4chan, the web forum notoriously credited as being the birthplace of the Anonymous hacking collective. Chris Poole, known by his online moniker Moot, created 4chan in ...

Juvenile pranksters from 4chan have made violent threats against three different school districts in Texas, Minnesota, and Virginia using online reporting tools intended for people to anonymously ...

A flaw in Google's account-recovery process has resulted in CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince losing control of his Google Apps for Business account, despite it being protected with two-factor ...

The search giant hires a controversial figure to resuscitate its social networking efforts. Google's social networking woes Google's long list of social networking failures include Orkut, Latitude, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — False information about the Las Vegas mass shooting from 4chan was a top story on Google before it was debunked. Links to the 4chan website falsely identified the shooter as Geary ...

It didn't take long for 4chan creator Chris Poole (better known as Moot) to find a new home after selling his brainchild. Google has hired Poole to take advantage of his 12 years of experience ...

Google’s newest hire is coming from a very unlikely place: 4chan. Chris Poole—AKA “moot”—the founder of the controversial anonymous message board, has joined Google. Poole posted the announcement on ...

Google News took the unusual step of confirming its use of the imageboard site 4chan as a news source on Monday. The admission followed Google News’ propagation of an incorrect name as a potential ...

Google has hired Chris Poole, the founder and former owner of the controversial Internet community 4chan. The hire was first announced by Poole himself, and later confirmed by Bradley Horowitz, who is ...