Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.
If you watched the Super Bowl Sunday night, you saw at least two unprecedented events: The New Orleans Saints won their first championship, and Google ran an ad for its search engine on television.
A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country's literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.
Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access.
As the fanfare over Apple's new iPad reaches a fever pitch, Google is not standing idly by.
Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS.
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.
Google's move to include social networking information in its searches has gotten personal.
Google's end run around Apple's App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell off 5 million Google shares each over the next five years, a move that could see them surrender majority voting control over the company they created.
Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.
If you watched the Super Bowl Sunday night, you saw at least two unprecedented events: The New Orleans Saints won their first championship, and Google ran an ad for its search engine on television.
A proposed partnership between the French government and Google is stoking fears in France that the country's literary treasures will fall under commercial control of a U.S. technology company.
Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access.
As the fanfare over Apple's new iPad reaches a fever pitch, Google is not standing idly by.
Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS.
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.
Google's move to include social networking information in its searches has gotten personal.
Google's end run around Apple's App Store is complete: Google Voice is ready as a Web application.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell off 5 million Google shares each over the next five years, a move that could see them surrender majority voting control over the company they created.
Google reported quarterly sales Thursday that returned to double-digit growth for the first time in a year on the back of a rebounding advertising market.
China has signaled a change of approach to the Google crisis, with state media describing the company's threat to pull out of the country as a political conspiracy by the U.S. government.
Google's standoff with the Chinese government over hacking has claimed its first casualties outside the U.S. Internet company itself, with the delay to the launches of two Android-based mobile handsets in the country.
The United States plans to express formal concern to the Chinese government soon after Google said a cyber attack from China targeted human rights activists.
The Chinese government was defending its Internet practices Thursday, even as censorship of Google results -- which had briefly been lifted -- appeared to return.
Google's Nexus One phone may have been one of the most anticipated devices of the last few weeks. But since the smartphone's launch last Tuesday, it has left a string of unhappy customers in its wake.
Google said Tuesday the company and at least 20 others were victims of a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" originating in China in mid-December, evidently to gain access to the e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Within hours of Google's announcement that it was no longer willing to self-censor in China, Google.cn was retrieving results for sensitive topics including the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, the Dalai Lama and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
Wow. It takes a lot of cojones to stand up to the Chinese government. But Google seems willing to give up on a huge market to protest strict censorship rules.
U.S. stocks were set for a flat open Wednesday, as investors prepared to tiptoe back into the market after the previous session's losses.
As 100,000 technology addicts descended upon Las Vegas this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, it's notable that the two most anticipated gadgets in recent memory aren't even being launched there.
You know Google as a search engine giant, an e-mail provider, and even a verb -- but as an online store?
It's Apple's and Google's mobile world. We're all just living in it.
Google's much-anticipated new phone, the HTC-designed Nexus One, could make its debut next week.
Calling it their "superphone," Google unveiled the Nexus One on Tuesday, marking the online search giant's first leap into the smartphone market.
Could it be the long-awaited "iPhone killer"?
Google is expected to take a giant leap forward into the smartphone arena Tuesday, with the much-anticipated unveiling of the Nexus One, the first smartphone completely designed by the search leader.
'Tis the season...for long lines and frayed nerves. Here's how to cope.
As a company that has built a business model atop trust, Google is in a sticky position as it prepares to formally introduce the Nexus One phone.
Google filed a lawsuit against Pacific WebWorks and other unnamed defendants for allegedly using the company's name and colorful logo to promote fraudulent work-at-home money-making schemes.
Eric Schmidt's presence at a swanky music industry gathering was an illustration of how far digital technology has come and the power it has amassed.
Real-time is a top 10 Web trend for 2010, I proposed in this column last week. Now the stage is set: Google this week launched real-time search, bringing live updates from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more into a scrolling pane in your Google search results.
Technology trends can be easy to spot -- iPod earbuds become ubiquitous, people casually use the term "Google" as a verb -- but technology investing is hard. For every Apple and Google, there are plenty of tech companies that fail to turn their innovations into top-performing stocks.
Google's first search engine let people search by typing text onto a Web page. Next came queries spoken over the phone.
Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.
It's the oldest trick in the political playbook: Call together a "summit" of fancy people so you'll appear to be focused on work that must get done.
As 2009 draws to a close, the Web's attention turns to the year ahead. What can we expect of the online realm in 2010?
Microsoft's Bing took a major step forward Wednesday in adding rich mapping and image data to its search engine, but until it assembles more data, pretty pictures aren't enough to beat the Google Maps juggernaut.
Microsoft's top search technology executive on Wednesday all but dismissed the likelihood that the company would pay newspaper owners and other publishers for removing their content from Google.
Google announced a new policy Wednesday that allows news publishers to limit the amount of subscription content that Internet users can access for free from Google News.
In a nod to the growing debate on free access to news stories on the Web, Google has updated options to help news organizations limit access.
It houses some of ancient Mesopotamia's rarest artifacts, but what is even harder to find at Iraq's National Museum are visitors.
If Rupert Murdoch gets his way -- and he's not simply bluffing -- you may one day need to "Bing it" rather than "Google it" to find news stories online.
Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.
Google is planning to foot the bill for WiFi at 47 of the nation's airports for the rest of the year, beginning Tuesday.
Google said Monday that it plans to pay $750 million in stock for AdMob, a company that provides display advertising technology for mobile Internet sites.
Ever wonder what information Google knows about you? With a click or two, now you can find out.
If you rely on a compelling service that happens to be free, what level of customer support are you entitled to receive?
The Internet's most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said.
Lars and Jens Rasmussen were broke and jobless -- with only $16 between them -- when they made it big in the Web world by selling their idea for Google Maps.
In researching his new book, Googled: the End of the World as We Know It, to be published next week by Penguin Press, author Ken Auletta had extensive access to the company's inner workings and reported widely on its impact on the media landscape.
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
Google plans to launch a music service, Wired.com has confirmed with sources familiar with the situation. Next to nothing is known about the service at this point, rumored to be called "Google Music," "Google Audio," or "One Box," although we have confirmed that it will be announced next Wednesday, and that it will link out to two music services: Lala and iLike.
Google will soon allow users to to listen to music and buy songs on its search results page, according to several news reports.
After two years of waiting, Google Android phones are finally hitting the market en masse.
Google on Thursday declared the worst of the recession over and paved the way for a return to heavy spending on expansion as it reported a surprisingly strong 8 per cent jump in net revenues in its latest quarter.
Google said Thursday the worst of the recession has passed, as it reported quarterly profit and sales that rose from year-earlier results and easily trounced Wall Street's forecasts.
One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said that the tech firm has ramped up hiring, citing an end to the advertising slump.
Google Wave, a product that promises to revolutionize online communication, will go out to about 100,000 beta testers Wednesday.
Gmail experienced problems on Thursday, with some users reporting slowdowns and service outages.
Technology stocks have outperformed the broader market during the past six months -- and with good reason.
Government lawyers urged a federal court judge late Friday to reject a proposed settlement which would allow Google to digitally scan massive libraries of books and place them online.
The Obama administration has unveiled a government "app store" designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing.
Google said Tuesday's widespread Gmail outage occurred when the company took some servers offline to perform routine maintenance, causing its remaining routers to become overloaded with traffic.
Many Google users probably didn't notice this month that they can now display their search tips in the Hawaiian language.
Her identity revealed, a blogger who posted rants about model Liskula Cohen said she was the real victim in the case and plans to sue Google for violating her privacy.
Whenever I look at shiny new smartphones, I experience a "boys and their toys" moment and have to keep myself from drooling. But as the author of The Recession-Proof Business and founder of VictorCheng.com, a Website that provides business training to entrepreneurs, I feel obligated to take a more serious approach. Sleek handsets come and go, but what matters most is the operating system, the software that will run mobile devices now and in the future. Apple, Palm and Google have all recently launched new mobile operating systems: OS 3.0 for the iPhone, WebOS on the Palm Pre and Google's Android system, which comes preinstalled on the HTC G1 from T-Mobile.
Three of Google's biggest online rivals have joined the fight against a court settlement that would give Google the rights to sell millions of books on the Internet.
Can you believe that it's already been five years since Google went public?
In May 2008 I nearly had a nervous breakdown -- and for good reason.
"Microhoo" is finally a done deal, but will it really be able to make a dent in Google's enormous search market lead?
It's funny how Wall Street works these days. News that should be considered bad is thought to be good because it's "less bad." But some companies that actually report good news get punished because it's not good enough.
Google found a killer app in the second quarter: cost-cutting.
Google said Thursday it was seeing signs of stabilization in what has been a very rough advertising environment.
In less than a week, Google announced an operating system to compete with Windows, while Microsoft announced that Office 10 will include free, online versions of its four most popular software programs -- a shot at Google's suite of web-based office applications.
Large Internet companies spend millions on consultants and technology trying to get their sites to rank among the highest results on Google. Everyone else has to rely on the poor man's search-engine optimization: the link exchange.
Google's netbook-friendly Chrome OS takes direct aim at Microsoft, whose eight-year-old Windows XP leads the netbook market. But the odds are stacked against Google.
Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory -- and threatening to change the way personal computers work -- with its own version of a computer operating system.
It's highly unlikely that the operating system Google announced yesterday -- dubbed Google Chrome OS -- will rocket to the heights of its chief competitor, Microsoft, right away. But it doesn't really matter. In a world obsessed with all things Google, the new OS will certainly get its fair share of attention, and the frontal assault on Microsoft that it represents will serve at least as a great distraction to the tech behemoth.
Half this miserable economic year is gone. That's the good news; we've got less of 2009 to go.
Internet giant Google on Friday started translating Persian, also known as Farsi, in a move that could dramatically help spread information on the Iranian election crisis, but the service is far from perfect.
When it comes to raising capital in the current economic environment, being married to a Google co-founder has its advantages.
Google was going to help democratize data in China. Instead, about three years after entering the Middle Kingdom, the search company still finds itself in an uncomfortable working relationship with government censors.
When the stock market goes up these days, your 401(k) isn't the only thing that will follow. So, too, does the volume of Google searches for economic terms.
Google spent Wednesday morning trying to get developers excited about the next generation of Web technologies by showing off how future Web applications will mimic desktop apps.
Search engine wars are heating up.
Although I don't plan to change my name when I get hitched this summer, I respect and appreciate every woman's right to choose what's best for her. I reject the notion some have expressed that when a woman takes her husband's last name she's giving up her identity.
Suddenly, search engines seem to be multiplying.
In this job market, any offer is good, but MBA candidates still consider some employers better than others.
One of the perks of using search engine Google's home page is checking out the frequently changing seasonal, current-event, and holiday-inspired "doodles" used for the logo.
We may be coming upon a new era for the Internet search.
Many people found Google's search site was extremely slow or inaccessible Thursday, and other reports pointed to troubles with other properties including YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Docs, AdSense, and Blogger.
For the second week in a row, reports have surfaced that government regulators are closely eyeing Google.
Is it safe and secure to keep my calendar online? What's the difference between a Google calendar, an Exchange calendar, and an intranet calendar?
With these handy tools, you can update the folks back home without ever having to slow down.
The online world has gone totally multimedia: Web video and images have proliferated in recent years. Yet the go-to method for finding stuff on the Internet remains text-based. Looking for a site? Type words into a search bar, and the text results offer a hint of the relevant pages. Even if you're looking for images or video, the results are notated with words.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Shares of Google Inc. rose in after-hours trading Thursday after the Internet search company said its first-quarter profit climbed 8.9% and topped Wall Street's forecast, amid a tough advertising environment.
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