The news that major search engine operators Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN division and America Online complied with a U.S. government subpoena that Google is resisting has prompted strong reactions from Internet users on both sides of the issue.
The US government is asking a California court to force Google to turn over information about usage of the company's search engine for finding pornography on the internet.
Google has reached an agreement to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, whose technology links radio stations and advertisers and automates various aspects of the radio ad selling process.
Google pulled away from Yahoo in search engine usage during November in a major way, according to comScore Networks.
Fully-patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious hackers, various security firms warned Tuesday and Wednesday.
Google Inc. will create a limited liability company that will own the US$1 billion 5 percent equity interest the search engine giant will acquire in Time Warner Inc.'s America Online Inc. subsidiary.
Google is poised to pay US$1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday afternoon on its Web site, moments after also reporting that Google and AOL are in exclusive talks related to an advertising partnership.
Enterprises should halt business-critical deployments of BlackBerry devices and investments until its maker, Research In Motion, (RIM) clarifies its legal position with regards to its patent tussle with NTP, Gartner is advising.
Google has added a virus scanning feature to its Gmail Web mail service, complementing the existing virus protection based on blocking certain types of file attachments, such as executables.
Google has begun testing pay-per-phone-call ads, an emerging online ad model that is a twist on the popular pay-per-click ads.
Google's stock price recently topped US$400 per share. Online advertising, its main source of revenue, is expected to continue growing by leaps and bounds for the foreseeable future. Within online advertising, Google is a leader in the market's largest segment: paid search. Titans like Microsoft and Yahoo have significantly adapted and changed their business and technology strategies based on Google's moves. To boot, Google has the resources to steal Internet luminaries like Vint Cerf from competitors. Clearly, Google is invincible. Right?
Google Inc. has temporarily shut the door of its Google Analytics hosted service to new users because the company has been unable to keep up with demand after it began offering service free last week.
To help feed its insatiable information hunger, Google Inc. has begun publicly testing Google Base, a service designed to host and make searchable "all types of online and offline content," the Mountain View, California, company announced.
IBM has made available for free a plug-in that integrates its WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition enterprise search system with Google's enterprise desktop search tool.
Google's revenue almost doubled in its third quarter, ended Sept. 30, 2005, and net income rose more than sevenfold, the Mountain View, California, company reported on Thursday.