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Yahoo Desktop Search has left beta. On Tuesday evening, Yahoo said it plans to make the finished version of its free desktop search software available. Read the rest of this entry »

Google AdSense is marketing its site targeting service by testing an “Advertise on this site” link in its AdSense contextually targeted advertisements. Read the rest of this entry »

Domains Registered to Google Inc.The list of the domains is quite large. Read the rest of this entry »

Google is planning to open a one million square foot office complex at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre, located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc.’s wrath is short lived, it turns out. The Mountain View search engine has ended a one-year boycott of reporters from Cnet Network’s online technology news service News.com 10 months early. Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, granted an interview with a Cnet reporter for an article published Monday night. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. will stop boasting on its home page about the number of Web pages it has stored in its index, even as the online search engine leader continues a crusade to prove it scans substantially more material than its rivals. Read the rest of this entry »

The search engine Ask Jeeves’s dapper, grinning butler will soon be out of a job. Read the rest of this entry »

The future of Google’s newly revealed WiFi network has become the topic du jour. This is partly due to the tech industry’s awe-struck fascination with and high expectations of the company, but also because building a WiFi network of its own could be a shrewd business move that would, at the very least, serve as an insurance policy on Google’s core advertising business, which may not boom forever. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo beefed up its search agency capabilities with the hiring of former Carat Interactive executive Ron Belanger. Read the rest of this entry »

The Authors Guild and three other writers filed a class action suit on Tuesday against Google over its Google Print program. The lawsuit accuses the firm of massive copyright infringement. Read the rest of this entry »

A new worm modifies the infected PC so attempts to search using Google are directed to a spoofed site that looks like the real thing, but with different sponsored links to drive traffic to sites the hacker’s designated, a security firm said last week. Read the rest of this entry »

Time Warner and Microsoft are discussing the possibility of combining some aspects of America Online and MSN to become a larger force in Internet search and search-based advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

RPT-UPDATE 2-Google sells $4.18 bln of stock in landmark offer.Web search leader Google Inc.’s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) follow-on stock offering priced at $295 per share, raising $4.18 billion in the largest secondary sale by a U.S. high-tech firm in nearly a decade, underwriters said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Google’s now on the blog search bandwagon with Google Blog Search . There are good things about it and bad things. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. is such an influential and potentially scary company that it deserves a book as comprehensive as the Internet search engine responsible for its whirlwind success.
Veteran technology journalist John Battelle comes close with “The Search,” a 288-page exploration of the company whose dorm-room invention, initially spurned by dot-com entrepreneurs, is now synonymous with looking up information online. Read the rest of this entry »

SideStep Inc., a travel search engine, has elected Jim Barnett, chief executive officer and chairman of Turn Inc., as its new chairman. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers in Australia have developed a new method of exploring the web that could have a big impact on the search engines we use today. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Inc. and insurance company Geico have settled a lawsuit in which the latter company accused the search giant of trademark violations. Read the rest of this entry »

Google announced on Thursday that it hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, as the search giant seeks to build a network foundation for its future Internet applications. Read the rest of this entry »

Google has most of the male Interner users, but Yahoo! has a higher proportion of searchers between the ages of 18-34 than Google, MSN, or Ask Jeeves, according to a Hitwise study published in MediaPost. Read the rest of this entry »