Noticed something called googlesoftwareupdatedaemon eating up my CPU this morning, and was able to google (well, duck) up this from a MacRumors forum:
The good news [if you are having trouble with
googlesoftwareupdatedaemon] is, you can go to the LaunchDaemons folder(in Finder: Menu Bar > Go > Go to Folder…, enter
/Library/LaunchDaemons, click the Go button)and then delete the offending daemon, probably
com.google.keystone.daemon.Empty Trash, Restart. Done.
I'm not quite yet ready to delete it, but it's interesting to learn where this stuff lives.