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Amnesty International has said that it is ‘dismayed’ at Google’s decision to censor Internet content in China.

America Online Inc. acquired the video search company Truveo Inc. as it seeks to make online video offerings easier to find.

NEW YORK: Google Inc. the online media giant, will be able to sell its pending 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc.’s AOL Internet unit as early as July 2008 according to Google’s recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Microsoft Corp. said late Thursday it had reached a settlement with rival Google Inc. and former employee Kai-Fu Lee, ending a legal battle that had exposed behind-the-scenes rancor between the companies.

Time Warner Inc is closing in on a deal with Microsoft Corp. to team up on an online advertising service to compete with Google Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the talks.

Nearly all the raw material to run a fairly complex Internet search service is now available, for lease, from online retailer Amazon Inc.

US television network CBS is in discussions with internet company Google to use its video search and on-demand video, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves said overnight.

What’s This? Matt Cutts’ Blog Gone from Google?

It may not be quite what Steve Jobs had in mind, but an online search engine called Guba is set to offer vast amounts of pornography and other video files, specifically tailored for Apple’s new iPods.

Google Inc. and Comcast Corp. are in discussions to buy a minority stake in Time Warner’s America Online, two sources close to the deal said on Wednesday.

America Online Inc. has agreed to buy Weblogs Inc., a network of Internet sites focused on niche topics ranging from food to gadgets, for around $25 million, a source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

Microsoft CEO vows to ‘kill’ Google.Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to “kill” internet search leader Google Inc. in an obscenity-laced tirade, and Google chased a prized Microsoft executive “like wolves,” according to documents filed in an increasingly bitter legal battle between the rivals.

The Link Selling O’Reilly Debate continues and a new thread popped up at WebmasterWorld with the catchy title, Google Says: Buying links not allowed? In that thread, he the thread creator quotes a statement by Matt Cutts; top Google engineer as saying; “Google’s view on this…Selling links muddies the quality of the web and makes [...]

ZabaSearch.com, a search engine that specializes in disseminating free personal information, is poised to append a blogging feature to search results, which would enable unsubstantiated gossip to be appended to people’s personal information.

Nokia, the global leader in mobile communications, has made the web search on its smartphones all the more easy.