SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote) believes that big-name partnerships instead of major merger deals remain the best way to expand its customer base, executives of the Web search leader said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt on Wednesday told industry analysts the online search engine leader is unlikely to create its own Web browser, even though the company remains worried about being slighted by the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer. Read the rest of this entry »
The cat’s out of the bag. I made the announcement here in New Zealand at Webstock, so I’ll confirm that, yes, the rumors are not just rumors. After a bit of negotiation and a lot of internal debate, I recently accepted an offer to join Google as Visual Design Lead, a position that did not previously exist there. Read the rest of this entry »
An anonymous reader writes to mention a ZDNet post about another possible product in the grand Google vision. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s only been a week since the first version came out, but already Google has released an updated version of its Java and Eclipse-based Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Bret Taylor, GWT product manager, announced that version 1.0.21 is now available for download. Read the rest of this entry »
In the first part of my interview with Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise, we discussed the general parameters of a Google Office suite. In this part of the interview, Girouard talks about Google search and strategic directions for products directed at business customers. For Google, search is the dominant gene, and like others purusing the Holy Grail of search, the lofty goal is to create a search engine that brings back one result, precisely what the user needed. Read the rest of this entry »
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Reuters) - Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Thursday that the internet industry benefits from a healthy eBay, and sees closer ties ahead between the online auctioneer and his own company. Read the rest of this entry »
Dell and Google have agreed to the first in a series of deals to pre-install web and desktop search software on the PC maker’s computers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
GOOGLE doesn’t like to admit that it makes mistakes, but at its Zeitgest conference yesterday Eric Schmidt, the chief executive, conceded it needed to reintegrate its mushrooming family of products back into its original search offering… Read the rest of this entry »
Google’s ultimate aim is to create a search engine with artificial intelligence to exactly answer any question a user puts to it, the company declared last night.. Read the rest of this entry »
IN St Albans the locals are obsessed with diets and gyms; in Liverpool they prefer fashion; in Aberdeen money is a key concern; and in Gateshead they have a thing about Kate Winslet. Read the rest of this entry »
Benchmark Capital, the venture capital fund that backs Irish pay-TV group Setanta, has joined the race to find the next MySpace.com by making a $15m (£8m) investment in Bebo, the British online networking site. Read the rest of this entry »
I always get the feeling that with every new product from Google, there is a hugely ambitious, hugely ingenious, not-yet-revealed plan behind it. Google Earth, one such new product, might very well be worth watching just to see how far the search giant can push the technology. Read the rest of this entry »
The report lists the top 10 parent companies, how many unique visitors they get per month, and how long, on average, each person uses their site over the course of the month. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Inc. has dropped Trillian from its Google Pack software suite with nary an explanation, prompting a terse reaction from Cerulean Studios, maker of the popular instant messaging application. Read the rest of this entry »
Google has just added “/music” to their robots.txt file which can only mean one thing — Google Music is getting closer. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books. The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google’s chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile who has a collection of about 10,000 hard-copy volumes lining shelves at his home in McLean. Read the rest of this entry »
Google overnight sneaked out much anticipated street mapping data for Australia and New Zealand cities within Google Maps in a move that is likely to spur a frenzy of mapping mash-up activity. Read the rest of this entry »
After teaming up with Nike for a soccer community, and after teaming up with Sony’s Da Vinci Code for a series of mini games, Google is now getting together with movie The Break-Up (with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston). ……… Read the rest of this entry »
HONG KONG (AP) — China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd., China’s largest cell-phone carrier by subscribers, said Thursday it’s in talks with Google to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.
China Mobile is keen to explore mobile data services to offset declining revenue from the traditional voice services. Read the rest of this entry »