Top Google PR Blunders!

Google celebrated its 13th birthday today, and in that time, it has had a number of product hits and misses. As with any big company, it has also had to contend with a number of PR snafus, from unauthorized data collection to antitrust investigations.

Most recently, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was on Capitol Hill defending his company’s search tactics. Google does not favor its own products in search results or “cook” its results to give it the upper hand, Schmidt told the Senate Judiciary Committee.