Google has upgraded its popular search engine with a refined user interface (UI) that allows users to fully experience the “increasing richness” of the web.
According to company spokesperson Marissa Mayer, the upgrade effectively “showcases” the latest evolution in Google’s search technology.
“We’ve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This [...]
Google could start selling digital books as early as June or July, through a service called Google Editions.
While it’s been no secret that the company has had its eye on the book market for quite some time, it’s now told the Wall Street Journal that it’s ready to go.
Google has long [...]
In an interview with the BBC, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had some words of advice for those simplistic up-and-comers at Google: diversify! That sound you hear? It’s everyone on the internet scratching their heads at the same time.
The interview elicited a few weirdly confident remarks from Yahoo’s CEO, in which she [...]
The latest company in Google’s portfolio comes all the way from Tel Aviv. The online search giant has picked up Israel-based Labpixies for a reported $25 million.
Labpixies is an admittedly unknown company to most people, though it has a notable presence on everything from Facebook to the iPhone to Google’s customizable [...]
Android 2.2 will get one of the most important feature upgrades in the history of the Google operating system – native Flash support.
The update, code-named “Froyo,” should come next month according to the New York Times, which recently interviewed Google’s engineering VP Andy Rubin. Mi It’s yet another distinguishing [...]
Google’s Android has finally managed to triumph over Apple’s iPhone by capturing 46 percent of the US market share.
Meanwhile, the iPhone’s notoriously closed OS lost three percentage points as it dropped from 45 to 42 percent.
“In March 2010, there were 34 Android devices from 12 manufacturers available to consumers. Two [...]
Google Me Trailer. Google Me is a documentary by Jim Killeen, starring 7 guys named Jim Killeen.
“It all started when I Googled my name,” said Killeen of his movie. And who in today’s day and age hasn’t engaged in just such an activity in a moment of idle “webbing.” The difference here [...]
At Google’s Silicon Valley corporate headquarters, the artists painting on digital canvases are producing works of art that will be viewed by millions . . . but disappear in just 24 hours.
They are the creators of Google’s Doodles, the often playful illustrations that regularly transform Google’s home page to mark things [...]
After tinkering with movie rentals in January, YouTube’s added a bunch of movies and TV episodes you actually want to see. We’re not just talking art-house Sundance Film Festival flicks—now, you can get a bit of anime too.
There’s still nothing particularly mainstream on the YouTube store, with indie films, Bollywood stuff and documentaries mostly on [...]
The credit card numbers of at least four Blippy customers appear to have found their way onto the fast-moving lanes of the information super-highway.
According to VentureBeat, all numbers which appeared in a Google search appear to match Citibank-issued MasterCard numbers.
“Today someone discovered a Google search that displays the credit card [...]
Google Buzz is ‘a robot party’, according to web engagement monitor PostRank, which says almost 90 percent of content comes from bots.
The company says that an extraordinary 62 percent of Buzz content comes from Twitter, thanks to the way many users hook up their accounts to automatically repost content through FriendFeed [...]
The recent Chinese cyber offensive against Google may have also compromised a password system that controls access to almost all the company’s web services, including e-mail and business apps.
According to the New York Times, the program – code named Gaia for the Greek goddess of the earth – was attacked in [...]
