Google - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• Google sets its sights on Seattle

  Google may be planning to boost its presence in Seattle after leasing a new building in the city.

• Google to enhance Search Appliance with open source framework

  Google is developing an open source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms.

• Microsoft targets Google with US$6B purchase

  Even though the US$6 billion price tag on Microsoft's acquisition of digital advertising vendor aQuantive is nearly twice what Google paid for DoubleClick last month, analysts didn't see the move as a sign of panic on Microsoft's part.

• Wellington firm helps Google summer programme

  Wellington web developer SilverStripe has become the first New Zealand company to be entrusted with the supervision of students working on Google’s “Summer of Code” programme.

• Google renames personalised home page, adds gadgets

  The company has announced that it will rename its personalised home page to iGoogle, which will now include Google Gadgets. Users with no programming experience or web design experience can create gadgets for iGoogle and send them to their family and friends.

• Google: Personalised Home Page glitch solved

  Google has finally solved a technical glitch on its Personalised Home Page service that rattled an undetermined number of users.

• Google looking to expand geo-tagged info

  Google is looking to increase the range and variety of its geographical information, and hopes its users will play a big part in the expansion.

• Google head announces PowerPoint competitor

  Google plans to take another swipe at Microsoft’s Office suite of tools by adding presentation software to its Google Docs web-based tools for word processing, email and spreadsheets.

• Google to unveil AJAX API for adding feeds

  This week, Google is set to roll out a new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) API geared to help AJAX developers more easily add Atom and RSS feeds to web applications or blogs.

• Google to pay $4.1B for DoubleClick

  Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion (NZ$4.1 billion) in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.

• Google building data centres at a quick pace

  Google is on its way to becoming the McDonald's of data centres -- serving billions of bytes daily -- if it keeps up with what seems to be an extraordinary pace of building IT facilities.

• Google apologises for using part of rival's software

  Google has issued a brief apology for using part of a software application developed by rival Sohu.com in a recently released Chinese software tool of its own.

• Google Desktop for Mac to be released

  Google will release Google Desktop for Mac on Wednesday, marking the first time the search giant will make its desktop tool available to Mac users. Mac users already have a search tool with Apple's Spotlight, but Google says its utility will work alongside the Mac OS X 10.4 feature perfectly.

• Ministerial Services investigates Google Desktop Search security

  The Department of Internal Affairs is asking government ministers and their staff to consider removing Google’s Desktop Search software from their computers because of security concerns.

• Google, YouTube hit with US$1B copyright suit

  Media company Viacom International is suing online video provider YouTube and its parent company, Google, for more than US$1 billion, saying the companies are infringing on Viacom's copyrights because almost 160,000 unauthorised video clips are available for viewing on YouTube.