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233 Internet - Google Resources 17 Google Tips for Web Businesses Web site owners should follow these handy tips for using Google's Analytics, AdSense, and AdWords tools. Open Open Tab July 27, 2008 Provides Information A A Google DLR? A Google DLR would be a boost for Google App Engine. Open Open Tab June 19, 2008 Provides Information Analysts: Google faces more problems than Microsoft-Yahoo deal In spite of Google's annual revenue growth of 52%, many Wall Street analysts are now advising their clients to hold off on buying Google stock. Has Microsoft's bid for Yahoo made that much of a dent, or are there other factors at play? Open Open Tab February 6, 2008 Provides Information B Baidu expands to take on Google in Japan The dominance of Google in the search space is almost written in stone in North America, but there may yet be some populous spots in the world where the market is wide open. Now its main Chinese competitor has launched a new assault. Open Open Tab January 23, 2008 Provides Information Ballmer Concedes Search Engine War to Google, For Now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted defeat in battle against Google for search engine supremacy. According to a story in The Financial Times (registration required) Ballmer says Google has won the search war online. "I do fault us for the speed with which we dove into search, primarily because we didn't see the business model. Open Open Tab June 20, 2008 Provides Information Ballmer still searching for an answer to Google Microsoft may be the only company in a position to provide “any real competition” for Google in the online search business, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. But first it will need to figure out a way to do it. Open Open Tab September 26, 2008 Provides Information Belgian newspaper group wants $77 million from Google The Belgian press editors association Copiepresse has been at odds with Google since last year over the appearance of its member publications' work in Google News, and now it wants to be compensated. Open Open Tab May 28, 2008 Provides Information Beware DVD copying software Those in the headline-scribbling business know that their work should be short, to-the-point, and as accurate as possible. While the headline for this blog entry qualifies on the first two fronts. Open Open Tab May 1, 2008 Provides Information Bill Gates chuckles at Google Apps Bill Gates has no respect for Google Apps. Open Open Tab March 4, 2008 Provides Information Build your own Google In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Open Open Tab June 5, 2008 Provides Information C Coming to a video site near you: more ads Google announced Thursday that it will be beta testing a new AdSense program that would place ads in online video. Open Open Tab February 21, 2008 Provides Information D Debunking Google's security vulnerability disclosure propaganda Question: You're a multi-billion dollar tech giant, you've launched a new phone platform after much media fanfare. Then, a security researcher finds a flaw in your product within days of its release. Open Open Tab October 27, 2008 Provides Information Doubts Spread About Google's 1Q Earnings "Google will miss its quarter, mark my words," we recently overheard an exec from a competing web company say. Open Open Tab March 24, 2008 Provides Information E EFF grills DoJ over Google contact The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is suing the Department of Justice, demanding information about communications between the DoJ's former top privacy official and Google, the official's current employer. Open Open Tab February 27, 2008 Provides Information EU welcomes Google move to cut data retention time Europe's top justice official welcomed on Thursday a move by Google Inc to halve to nine months the time it stores personal data gathered from its users' Web surfing habits. Open Open Tab September 11, 2008 Provides Information F Facebook CEO wants to talk on Google Friend Connect Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google's Friend Connect last week, he said Monday. Open Open Tab May 19, 2008 Provides Information Facebook Hires Away Google Online Ad Exec Google executive tapped to help social-networking company's global expansion. Open Open Tab March 4, 2008 Provides Information Facebook poaches Google exec for new COO global sales chief Sheryl Sandberg will leave the company to become second in command at Facebook. Open Open Tab March 5, 2008 Provides Information For Google Apps, 2008 may be the year it realizes less is not more Only 'several thousand' firms today ponying up for $50-per-user annual subscription. Open Open Tab December 26, 2007 Provides Information G Get More From Google Reader Want to get more out of your RSS feeds? Are you curious how some people are able to follow thousands of feeds while you feel overwhelmed with fifty? Today we're going to look at how you can use Google Reader to help organize and tame your RSS workflow. Open Open Tab August 8, 2008 Provides Information Globetrotting with Google Earth's New Browser Plug-in I've been playing with new browser-based Google Earth API (application programming interface) that was announced at the Google I/O conference and it seems pretty cool so far. The basic idea is that Google Earth (or data) can now be embedded into Web sites similar to how Google Maps are embedded except with Google Earth, you can add some more robust features. Open Open Tab May 29, 2008 Provides Information Gmail certificate expiry snafu follows security upgrade Google allowed one of its Gmail SSL certificates to expire days after promising users improved webmail security. Open Open Tab July 30, 2008 Provides Information Gmail Gets SMS Chat Google will reportedly add SMS sending capabilities to Gmail Chat today which will now let desktop Gmail users swap instant messages with mobile phone users via SMS protocol. Open Open Tab October 31, 2008 Provides Information Gmail Rolls Out Remote Security Features Sometimes the most simple and obvious feature can be the most secure as Google is rolling out a feature that allows you to monitor remote activity on your Gmail account. Open Open Tab July 8, 2008 Provides Information Gmail uses DomainKeys to lock out eBay phishing attacks eBay and PayPal have linked up with Gmail to roll out technology designed to block fraudulent emails and phishing attacks. Open Open Tab July 10, 2008 Provides Information Google acquires BC data -- for free The British Columbia government and Google have teamed up in a partnership the former says will help the public, “plot out everything from campsites to coal reserves on free customizable maps”. Open Open Tab July 21, 2008 Provides Information Google 3Q earnings rise 26 pct, top analyst views Google Inc. shook off the economic doldrums to deliver a third-quarter profit that topped analysts' expectations, supporting the Internet search leader's theory that its advertising system will prosper even in tough times. Open Open Tab October 16, 2008 Provides Information Google adds AIM capabilities to Gmail chat Google said Tuesday that it had added interoperability with AIM into its GTalk client within Gmail, allowing users to login to their AIM accounts from within the client. Open Open Tab December 4, 2007 Provides Information Google adds collaboration tools to Apps platform Sites would allow users to create collaboration areas quickly and easily. Within them, users can include videos, calendars, presentations, and attachments. The information is then presented in a wiki-like interface. Open Open Tab February 28, 2008 Provides Information Google Adds Eight Cities to Street View If not, there is good news. Google has added eight new cities to its growing list of U.S. locations that allow you to browse and explore 360-degree panoramic views of highways, streets, and cul-de-sacs. Open Open Tab December 13, 2007 Provides Information Google adds fuel to Canada's BitTorrent throttling fracas This week, Google jumped into the battle against Bell Canada's anti-BitTorrent practices, this time through the country's equivalent of the FCC, and on different legal grounds than privacy advocates. Open Open Tab July 8, 2008 Provides Information Google adds video to Google Apps Google is taking advantage of its YouTube assets to introduce Google Video for business as a part of its Google Apps suite. Open Open Tab September 3, 2008 Provides Information Google advises shareholders again to vote down anti-censorship proposal For the second straight year, the search giant is silently opposing a proposal to shareholders that would prohibit it from housing personally identifiable data in countries whose human rights policies could be detrimental to its customers. Open Open Tab March 26, 2008 Provides Information Google Adwords dive-bombed by American Airlines 'We do not bring this suit lightly'. Open Open Tab August 17, 2007 Provides Information Google App Engine struggles against bug Since early morning yesterday, Google's App Engine Web application hosting service has been forced into a limp, yielding persistent errors for users attempting to access their applications. Open Open Tab June 18, 2008 Provides Information Google approaching world domination Google wants you to know it's well on its way to taking over the world. Open Open Tab February 1, 2008 Provides Information Google Apps Embrace the iPhone With Mobile Makeover The keynote may still be a day away, but that doesn't mean Macworld isn't kicking off with a bang - Google plans to show off a new iPhone interface for its applications later today. Among the revamped Google apps to see a makeover are Gmail, Reader, Calendar, iGoogle, Picasa and more. Open Open Tab January 14, 2008 Provides Information Google Apps hacked to run on Amazon Web Services A developer has found a way to host Google Apps on Amazon's Web services platform, and is open sourcing his solution. Open Open Tab April 15, 2008 Provides Information Google Apps Hit by Prolonged Gmail Access Problem A technical problem hit an undetermined number of Gmail users, including paying subscribers to the Google Apps hosted software suite, locking them out of their accounts for about 15 hours on Wednesday and early Thursday. Open Open Tab August 7, 2008 Provides Information Google attempts to protect identities in Street View feature Since the debut of Google's Street View in its mapping application, bloggers and curiosity seekers have made it somewhat of a sport to catch folks who may not have wanted their activities photographed. Open Open Tab May 14, 2008 Provides Information Google audio search graduates to lab project Google has elevated the profile of its attempt to make videos searchable through speech recognition technology, a move that portends a potentially more financially successful YouTube division. Open Open Tab September 16, 2008 Provides Information Google banned from US bases The Pentagon has banned Google vehicles with roof-mounted cameras from all military installations after detailed photographs of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio showed up on Google Maps. Open Open Tab March 7, 2008 Provides Information Google boosts its mobile outreach with smaller image ads In a move designed to change the texture of mobile Web content, Google is integrating smaller display ads designed for mobile browsers, into its AdWords service starting today. Open Open Tab April 24, 2008 Provides Information Google brain drain to Facebook continues Elliot Schrage, Google's former vice president of global communications and public affairs will take a comparable position at Facebook. Open Open Tab May 6, 2008 Provides Information Google brings gadgets to Docs' spreadsheet Google plans to roll out enhancements to its online spreadsheet program, including the ability to display data in new ways using lightweight "gadgets" and to notify users via e-mail when data is changed. Open Open Tab March 19, 2008 Provides Information Google broadens e-mail archiving service Appealing to organizations burdened by federal rules requiring electronic message retention, Google is offering hosted e-mail archiving for up to 10 years for $45 per user per year. The service works with a company's existing e-mail infrastructure and has no storage limit. Open Open Tab October 8, 2008 Provides Information Google Buys Contextual Ad Firm Begun Google takes Begun off Russia's Rambler Media's hands for $140 million, seeking to cement its contextual ad assets and boost international expansion. What's next for the search giant? Open Open Tab July 18, 2008 Provides Information Google Calendar For people already using Google services such as Gmail, having Google Calendar manage your schedule is a logical choice, since it uses the same login information. For users who don't already have a Gmail account, it's a good choice as well--provided that you don't mind being tied to a Web browser for your calendar information. Open Open Tab June 4, 2008 Provides Information Google Calls Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Troubling In a statement, Google's senior vice president of development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, said that "Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions." Open Open Tab February 3, 2008 Provides Information Google captures market share from Yahoo, Microsoft Google was used 63 percent of the time in August, compared to 61.9 percent in July, according to figures released Friday by comScore, which tracks online trends. Open Open Tab September 19, 2008 Provides Information Google celebrates eight years of toolbar with new IE version If you've used a computer in the last decade, no doubt you've come face to face with the Google Toolbar. A Dell computer I bought a few years back came with both the toolbar and Google's desktop search program pre-installed. Also, an obscene amount of software comes with it as an optional add-on in the installation process since Google pays referrers a fat $1 per new user. Open Open Tab October 29, 2008 Provides Information Google CFO George Reyes to Retire Google said that George Reyes plans to retire as chief financial officer by the end of the year, and that the company will begin a search for a replacement. Open Open Tab August 28, 2007 Provides Information Google cheers anti-Comcast legislation Just after Comcast copped to throttling P2P traffic, a new net neutrality bill appeared on Capitol Hill. Open Open Tab February 14, 2008 Provides Information Google Closing Arizona Engineering Office It's a rare move for Google, which is still expanding fairly quickly, if at a slower pace than before. The company added about 450 employees between March 31 and June 30, for a total of 19,604. It has offices around the globe and is advertising a long list of job openings on its Web site. Open Open Tab September 19, 2008 Provides Information Google Clout Seen Aiding Microsoft Regulators should take Google's size into account when weighing the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. Open Open Tab February 1, 2008 Provides Information Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service. Open Open Tab July 25, 2008 Provides Information Google continues to mete out privacy features Another minor privacy upgrade to Google came yesterday afternoon to Gmail, the ability to check activity in the user's mailbox. Open Open Tab July 8, 2008 Provides Information Google Cuts Time It Retains IP Address Logs to 9 Months The move comes in response to regulators' concerns, especially in Europe and the U.S., the company said in a blog posting late on Monday. Open Open Tab September 9, 2008 Provides Information Google Delivers New AJAX APIs The new Google tools will make AJAX development faster, officials say. Open Open Tab May 29, 2008 Provides Information Google denies disassembling Vista software The source code underlying Google's Chrome Web browser suggests that Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to employ a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company said it didn't, in fact, do so. Open Open Tab September 19, 2008 Provides Information Google Denies Infringing Patent The search giant calls Northeastern University's patent on search technology invalid. Open Open Tab January 12, 2008 Provides Information Google Develops Wikipedia Rival Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know. Open Open Tab December 14, 2007 Provides Information Google Disables Some Gmail Accounts by Mistake An overzealous antispam measure erroneously blocks legitimate users, prompting a traffic jam on Google's forums. Open Open Tab December 10, 2007 Provides Information Google Docs Get Offline Support, T Not Happy Google is furthering the migration of pretty much everything to the cloud by offering offline Google Docs support, which will be powered by Google Gears. Effectively, the applications you use will have data stored locally until you get back in range of your Wi-Fi hotspot, where updating will then occur seamlessly. The functionality will start to roll out in the coming week, with some users being granted immediate access. Open Open Tab April 1, 2008 Provides Information Google Docs: Your Online Office? Over the next few weeks, Google will be rolling out a new feature that allows Google Docs users to access their documents even without an Internet connection. For now the change only applies to the word processor, but similar capabilities are expected to become available for spreadsheet and presentation documents once the initial trials are complete. Open Open Tab April 18, 2008 Provides Information Google drops Yahoo advertising partnership Failed deal marks latest blow to struggling Yahoo. Open Open Tab November 5, 2008 Provides Information Google Earth Looks Skyward Sky add-on for Google's Earth satellite program shows photos of precise star formations overhead. Open Open Tab August 22, 2007 Provides Information Google enters underwater cable business Readies $300m cable from US to Japan. Open Open Tab February 28, 2008 Provides Information Google experiments with editing search results A recent post on the Google blog has hinted that we may soon be able to edit the search results presented to us via a Google search. Open Open Tab August 28, 2008 Provides Information Google Extends Labs Experiment to Google Apps Ever since it launched, Google Labs for Gmail has rolled out a string of add-on features that allow developers and savvy users to customize Gmail and add new features without waiting for Google to make official updates. Labs has apparently proven such a success that Google is extending the idea to Google Apps. Open Open Tab October 29, 2008 Provides Information Google extends reliability guarantee to all Apps As many of you know, Google currently offers a 99.9% availability guarantee for Gmail for US$50 a year. But that has now changed as the search giant extends that same guarantee to the rest of its applications with Google Apps for business. Open Open Tab November 3, 2008 Provides Information Google February Search Share Down Globally Google Inc's share of the global Web search market dipped in February from January, despite a rise in its U.S. search share, an Internet industry analyst said on Wednesday, citing comScore data. Open Open Tab March 19, 2008 Provides Information Google fends off pornographic Lively rooms Google is having to work to try keeping its Lively online 3D virtual worlds from getting a little too lively. Open Open Tab July 14, 2008 Provides Information Google finds no privacy on private roads Google's Street View service apparently thinks your "no trespassing" and "private road" signs are just for decoration. Open Open Tab August 24, 2008 Provides Information Google fine-tunes ad controls, accountability Google has added some abilities for advertisers to control and track their display advertisements. Open Open Tab August 7, 2008 Provides Information Google floats its own economy, with a 42% sales gain With $5.9 billion in first quarter 2008 revenues -- a whopping 42 percent gain over the same period in 2007 -- Google is enjoying a wave of success at a time when a lot of other stocks are tanking. Open Open Tab April 18, 2008 Provides Information Google free to offload '$1bn' AOL stake Today is the first day that Google can sell its stake in AOL, picked up in exchange for $1bn as part of a wider video and advertising partnership between the two signed in 2005. Open Open Tab July 1, 2008 Provides Information Google Gadgets for Linux Since releasing Google Desktop for Linux, we've added almost all of our most requested features, like 64-bit support and the ability to search applications and documents. All except one major exception: Desktop Gadgets. Gadget support is not just a single feature, but rather an entire platform for miniature applications. It's a complex undertaking, but we're now putting the finishing touches on the product. Open Open Tab June 5, 2008 Provides Information Google Gains (Again) on MSN/Live This story is just too predictable: Microsoft's search share erosion. Open Open Tab April 16, 2008 Provides Information Google gets fuzzy over privacy If you're a Google Street View user and people's faces seem kind of, well, hazy, no worries. Open Open Tab May 14, 2008 Provides Information Google gets political with quotation tool Just in time for the home stretch of the U.S. presidential showdown, some crafty engineers at Google have created a tool to compare quotations from candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Called "In Quotes," the Google Labs project lets you search for a given term (say, "economy") and Google will bring up a quotation from each presidential candidate that mentions the term. Open Open Tab September 24, 2008 Provides Information Google gives phone numbers to San Francisco's homeless Through its Grand Central subsidiary that it acquired last year, Google will provide phone numbers to homeless people in San Francisco by working with the city's shelters. Open Open Tab February 29, 2008 Provides Information Google Going Green? Web Sites Claim to Save Energy Going black is the new going green — at least that is according to a selection of Web sites that claim to use Google in way that saves energy. Open Open Tab August 7, 2007 Provides Information Google Health Launches to Questions About Privacy Google executives pledge privacy as they roll out Google Health for consumers to try. Open Open Tab May 19, 2008 Provides Information Google hedges against foreign currency swings In recent months, financial analysts have expressed concern that Google's financial results could be hurt by foreign-exchange rate changes. But Google said Thursday that it has taken measures to insulate itself from the potential problem. Open Open Tab October 17, 2008 Provides Information Google Help: Cheat Sheet. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Google Holds Meeting on Revived Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Executives of Google Inc. held an emergency meeting last night to discuss the implications of revived talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., according to a report in The Times in the U.K. Open Open Tab May 20, 2008 Provides Information Google introduces an Apps tool for sending forms via e-mail This morning, Google unveiled an intriguing new collaboration feature that lets users embed forms in their e-mails. It involves the company's existing Spreadsheet platform, and it could be a new tool to expand its online apps' user base. Open Open Tab February 7, 2008 Provides Information Google introduces service-level guarantee for its Apps suite Google is offering a service-level agreement for a version of Google Apps, a move that may provide some comfort to enterprises spooked by a long Gmail outage and a buggy Apps portal earlier this month. Open Open Tab October 31, 2008 Provides Information Google Introduces Tool for Planning Online Ad Campaigns Google wants to make it easier for marketers to pick appropriate Web sites for their online ads with a new tool it announced Tuesday called Ad Planner. Open Open Tab June 24, 2008 Provides Information Google launches blog tracking service Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading. Open Open Tab October 3, 2008 Provides Information Google launches free music search in China Forum backed by some record labels, supported by advertising revenue. Open Open Tab August 6, 2008 Provides Information Google launches security group for open source Google is spearheading a volunteer workforce it hopes will become the centralized authority for responding to security issues in open source software. Open Open Tab May 6, 2008 Provides Information Google launches YouTube Insight Google now has a new way of keeping an eye on you and what you're doing. Open Open Tab March 27, 2008 Provides Information Google Makes $500 WiMax Bet The search giant looks to Clearwire to help build out its search, ad and Android platforms in an increasingly wireless world. Open Open Tab May 12, 2008 Provides Information Google Makes Deal with Tele Atlas With Navteq already in global handset leader Nokia's fold, Google and Navteq competitor Tele Atlas announced June 30 a five-year licensing agreement giving Google access to Tele Atlas maps and dynamic content in more than 200 countries. Open Open Tab June 30, 2008 Provides Information Google makes Mozilla licence U-turn Google has done a swift about-face and decided to allow code released under the Mozilla Public Licence (MPL) into its Google Code silo, just a month after it was judged redundant and banned. Open Open Tab August 29, 2008 Provides Information Google may ditch search deal with Yahoo Tech giants struggling to reach agreement on ad partnership Open Open Tab October 31, 2008 Provides Information Google Maps set to include YouTube videos Google Monday announced that local business owners can now add YouTube videos to their listings in Google Maps. Open Open Tab April 15, 2008 Provides Information Google misses estimates World's leading search engine reports sales and profits that are below Wall Street's targets. Stock plunges on news. Open Open Tab January 31, 2008 Provides Information Google News to place greater focus on local content The Mountain View, Calif. search company is debuting new functionality that will allow users to drill down to localized news. Open Open Tab February 7, 2008 Provides Information Google offers to host services on App Engine Google is offering to host enterprise Web applications on its own infrastructure with a new tool for developers, App Engine. Open Open Tab April 8, 2008 Provides Information Google offeres up a new vision of computing's future Tuesday, and it has little to do with desktops or laptops. It's a future that focuses on mobility, with access to the Internet - and the ability to search its vastness, of course - no matter where you are from a device that clips to your belt or sits in your purse. The Google phone has arrived. Open Open Tab September 24, 2008 Provides Information Google officially quashes PageRank passing Google has officially proclaimed that it doesn't like webmasters trying to hawk their lofty PageRank status to other sites. Open Open Tab December 3, 2007 Provides Information Google open-sources data exchange language It will set the stage for a new wave of releases Open Open Tab July 8, 2008 Provides Information Google Opens Doors to Knol Google has launched Knol, its user-generated online encyclopedia, which it announced in December but had kept under wraps in private testing. Open Open Tab July 23, 2008 Provides Information Google Opens Up a Bit on Its Search Algorithms After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google Inc. is opening up a little. Open Open Tab May 22, 2008 Provides Information Google Opens Up Gmail Experiments Google's always been a company willing not only to try things, but to fail in public. You can go to Google Labs and try all sorts of new services the company's engineers have developed, but that aren't yet ready for mass consumption. Starting today, Google is applying that approach to Gmail. Open Open Tab June 5, 2008 Provides Information Google Ordered to Disclose Data on Gmail User A judge in the Netherlands has ordered Google to release Internet Protocol addresses for the owner of a Gmail account. Open Open Tab October 21, 2008 Provides Information Google outlines Web development investments in three areas Web 'is the only platform we've known,' says Google's chief of engineering. Open Open Tab May 29, 2008 Provides Information Google outpaces search market growth Google's quantity searches in the United States during July surged 16 percent over the last year, cementing the company's lead at the top of the market, according to statistics released Tuesday by Nielsen Online. Open Open Tab August 19, 2008 Provides Information Google Overtakes Yahoo as Most-visited US Web Site The bad news just doesn't seem to end for Yahoo As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, new research from comScore Inc. concludes that for the first time, Google has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. Open Open Tab May 16, 2008 Provides Information Google Owns Video World Ratings might be down for American Idol on that crazy vacuum tube device that people call television, but it's alive and well on the Internet. Frustrated with the comparatively poor quality of a standard TV experience, more people are heading online to watch their favorite shows. With the writer's strike in full gear and quality entertainment at a premium, the Internet's role as an alternative video source is accelerating. Open Open Tab January 18, 2008 Provides Information Google Pack Now Offers Sun's StarOffice The search giant's free software download package expands with addition of Sun Microsystems' office suite. Open Open Tab August 13, 2007 Provides Information Google paid click rate decelerates (again) For the third straight month, the number of people clicking on Google ads didn't grow quite as quickly as it has in the past. At least, that's the word from market research outfit comScore. Open Open Tab April 16, 2008 Provides Information Google plugs YouTube into Playstation 3 To the surprise of no one, Google is now offering software that streams video, photos, and music from your PC to your television. Open Open Tab June 27, 2008 Provides Information Google promises EU better privacy rules Google Inc. said Tuesday it will further cut the amount of time it stores data about users' search requests, to meet European privacy demands. Open Open Tab September 9, 2008 Provides Information Google provides $25M for worldwide charitable works Funds to be used to fight poverty, climate change, disease. Open Open Tab January 18, 2008 Provides Information Google Puts Open-source Project Back up Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice. Open Open Tab May 6, 2008 Provides Information Google Pulls Plug, Everyone Misses Point The company is killing Google Video's DTO/DTR program. And they're doing it for our own good. Right. Open Open Tab August 15, 2007 Provides Information Google quietly begins testing of iGoogle social features Google has quietly begun limited testing of several new social features created for its iGoogle personalized start page. The updates include chat, activity streaming and a new interface for the gadgets offered on the start page. Open Open Tab June 27, 2008 Provides Information Google reaches $125 million settlement with authors Google will be paying authors and publishers $125 million as part of a settlement agreement that resolves a suit against its Google Book Search initiative, the Authors Guild and a group of publishers announced Tuesday. Open Open Tab October 28, 2008 Provides Information Google Reader Update Violated Privacy, Critics say When Google updated its Google Reader program earlier this month it expanded the program's features allowing users to share items with Google Chat "friends." Soon after the update Google was blasted by Google Reader users who felt Google shared too much with others. Open Open Tab December 27, 2007 Provides Information Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. Open Open Tab September 5, 2008 Provides Information Google releases its data encoding format to compete with XML In an effort to solve the bulk and time-consumption problem when encoding large databases, Google developed its own alternative to XML. Yesterday, the company began evangelizing others to use it as an alternative to the industry standard. Open Open Tab July 8, 2008 Provides Information Google Releases Vidnik Video Application Google recently released Vidnik, a new application they're offering as part of their Google Mac apps. It's free to download and use. Open Open Tab May 13, 2008 Provides Information Google Says Video Ads Not in the Cards for Omnisio Google has no current plans to leverage the video advertising potential of its new Omnisio assets, which have been added to YouTube to provide video annotation and mashup capabilities. Open Open Tab July 31, 2008 Provides Information Google Says: Don't Drink and Email It may have turned into a giant international corporation, but have no doubt that Google is looking out for you. The search giant has added a feature to Gmail aimed at cutting down on those late night drunken e-mails. Open Open Tab October 7, 2008 Provides Information Google search seeks to understand users, queries, and Web pages Google has been sharing more about how its search engine works, and we got another installation in a series of blog posts on Wednesday: details of Google ranking. Open Open Tab July 16, 2008 Provides Information Google Search Share Up, Yahoo and Microsoft Down In February, Google's share of core searches by U.S. Internet users rose to 59.2 percent, up from 58.5 percent in January, according to figures from market research company comScore. Open Open Tab March 20, 2008 Provides Information Google Search Tool Irks Website Owners Retailers and other big name Websites are up-in-arms over a new Google search tool that, they say, does more harm than good. The new Google service provides a search-within-search feature for many popular sites, especially retail sites, which are resulting in angry site owners who would rather help their customers find what they are looking for and leave Google out of the site-search equation. Open Open Tab March 24, 2008 Provides Information Google Seen Considering Venture Capital Arm Like Intel's Google Venture Capital? A Google VC? Search giant Google is reportedly considering creating a venture capital arm to scope out prospective investments and acquisitions, as Intel and other Silicon Valley companies have already done. Open Open Tab July 31, 2008 Provides Information Google sees erosion of its $1B AOL investment Google has admitted to the SEC that its 2006 investment in AOL could be "impaired," meaning that its 5 percent stake in AOL might now be worth considerably less than the $1 billion the company paid in 2006. Open Open Tab August 8, 2008 Provides Information Google selects Code Jam finalists Top programmers from across the Americas competed Monday for spots in the finals of Google's global Code Jam 2008 competition. Open Open Tab September 29, 2008 Provides Information Google Share of U.S. Ads Down Google lost ground in the U.S. Internet advertising market for the first time in two years during 2007 due to slower growth in the fourth quarter, market researcher IDC said Monday. Open Open Tab February 12, 2008 Provides Information Google Shares Fall Below $400 For First Time In Two Years Google Inc. saw its once high-flying share price fall under the $400 mark by midday Monday. This represents the lowest price for the stock since September of 2006, when the shares were still on a sharp upward climb following the company's initial public offering two years before. Open Open Tab September 29, 2008 Provides Information Google shares hit new 52-week low The search giant's stock fell as low as $409.68 a share on Wednesday, breaking past its previous 52-week low of $412.11 in mid-March. Open Open Tab September 11, 2008 Provides Information Google ships database porn tool If you're tired of boring old data sets that lack the pizazz of Web 2.0ocity, then Google has the API for you. Open Open Tab March 19, 2008 Provides Information Google Shuts Down Online-Video Store Google is shutting down a service that sold and rented online video, ending a 19-month experiment doomed by the proliferation of free clips on other Web sites like the Internet search leader's YouTube subsidiary. Open Open Tab August 13, 2007 Provides Information Google Slams Autonomy Over Search Claims Google is firing back at enterprise search vendor Autonomy, saying the company recently distributed a white paper that contains "significant inaccuracies" about Google's Search Appliance. Open Open Tab January 31, 2008 Provides Information Google sours on $1 billion AOL investment Google acknowledged late Thursday that it may have made a bad bet on AOL. Open Open Tab August 8, 2008 Provides Information Google Steps Into Data Portability Dance With Friend Connect Google plans to release on Monday a preview version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social networking features to their sites, the company said. Open Open Tab May 12, 2008 Provides Information Google sued for $1B on IP theft allegations In a nearly $1 billion lawsuit, Google is being charged by Chicago start-up LimitNone with misappropriating trade secrets in developing "Google Email Uploader. Open Open Tab June 25, 2008 Provides Information Google sued for ad fraud Google has been hit with a class action suit in California over its AdSense system. Open Open Tab April 23, 2008 Provides Information Google Suffers AdSense Patent Setback The U.S Court of Appeals vacated part of a summary judgment against the search giant. Open Open Tab December 26, 2007 Provides Information Google Summer of Code 2008 The various Google Summer of Code slots have been awarded to the participating projects. As most of you will know, the Summer of Code is all about enticing programmers to contribute to open source projects. Open Open Tab April 22, 2008 Provides Information Google supports US privacy law Google, under fire recently for not being open enough about its own privacy policies, supports a wide-ranging federal bill protecting privacy. Open Open Tab June 11, 2008 Provides Information Google takes a swipe at OOXML Google has slammed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format as being "insufficient and unnecessary". Open Open Tab February 27, 2008 Provides Information Google Takes Down Open-source Project After DMCA Complaint Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux following a complaint from the codec's developer -- but the project could soon return. Open Open Tab May 5, 2008 Provides Information Google takes top Web spot in July It should come as no surprise, but Google sites officially continued to dominate the Web landscape in July, drawing more than 141 million unique visitors and placing Yahoo and Microsoft at second and third place, according to analyst group ComScore Media Metrix. Open Open Tab August 15, 2008 Provides Information Google Teams With Microsoft On IE6 Gmail It's great to see these two giants get along, isn't it? When not firing antitrust accusations at each other, the two found time to improve the ancient Internet Explorer 6. Open Open Tab September 8, 2008 Provides Information Google tells Congress about DoubleClick cookie Google is implementing a DoubleClick ad-serving cookie across its content network that will give advertisers new powers to target advertising. The cookie also gives users the ability to opt-out, the company told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter released yesterday. Open Open Tab August 12, 2008 Provides Information Google Tests New Gmail Features http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Tests-New-Gmail-Features/ Open Open Tab June 6, 2008 Provides Information Google Throws Open Rival for Wikipedia -- Anon Authors Discouraged Google announced on its official blog Wednesday the debut of Knol, a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia penned by authoritative sources. Open Open Tab July 23, 2008 Provides Information Google to DoJ: The clock is ticking Will push Goo-Hoo! deal, regulators be damned Open Open Tab September 18, 2008 Provides Information Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. Open Open Tab January 18, 2008 Provides Information Google to Sell Advertising Space in Newspapers Google plans to start selling advertising space in 50 top newspapers, expanding the Internet search engine's efforts to provide services off the Web and making it easier for companies advertising online to also show off their products in print. Open Open Tab   Provides Information Google Toolbar flaw opens door for attackers Mechanism for adding buttons could be used for phishing attacks, malicious downloads. Open Open Tab December 19, 2007 Provides Information Google tries to make its spreadsheets more like wikis In a strange move, Google has added a new feature to Google Docs that enables users to allow anyone to edit a spreadsheet, advertising the option as a way to make a spreadsheet like a wiki. Open Open Tab May 16, 2008 Provides Information Google upgrades Search Appliance with bigger index, added enterprise features New model indexes up to 10 million documents, gives IT additional search controls. Open Open Tab August 6, 2008 Provides Information Google ventures into health records biz Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. Open Open Tab February 21, 2008 Provides Information Google Weighs In on U.S. Wireless Networks The Internet giant says it wants the wireless world to mirror the open platform of the Web, and it will continue to weigh in on FCC decisions. Open Open Tab April 4, 2008 Provides Information Google will appeal German copyright decisions Google will appeal two German court decisions that found it violated copyright law by showing thumbnails of works by two artists in search results, the company said Tuesday. Open Open Tab October 14, 2008 Provides Information Google withdraws from Yahoo ad partnership. Will Microsoft rebid? Google announced on November 5 that it has decided to back out of its proposed ad partnership with Yahoo rather than defend it in court. Open Open Tab November 5, 2008 Provides Information Google-funded DNA testing to launch in Europe later this week Maybe you're related to John Lennon, Hillary Clinton, Genghis Khan, or the Iberians of ancient Spain? Beyond providing social networking, several Google-funded Web sites targeted at North Americans will test your DNA and may give you some genetic clues. Open Open Tab January 22, 2008 Provides Information Google's Brin: Microsoft Bid 'Unnerving' Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. an "unnerving" maneuver that threatens innovation on the Internet. Open Open Tab February 22, 2008 Provides Information Google's calculator muffs some math problems Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number. Open Open Tab August 25, 2008 Provides Information Google's Crawlers Can Now Index Flash Pages A big annoyance of the Internet, flashy and unnecessary Flash-built Web pages, is being remedied with an announcement that Google has developed a way to index those Flash-built pages for its search engine. Open Open Tab July 1, 2008 Provides Information Google's Gears Gains Ground Google's open-source development tool is seeing adoption grow. Open Open Tab May 29, 2008 Provides Information Google's growth makes privacy advocates wary 'It's about having a monopoly over our personal information' Open Open Tab November 3, 2008 Provides Information Google's IP anonymization fails to anonymize In telling the world it will anonymize user IPs after only nine months, Google has appeased EU regulators. At least in part. But it looks like Mountain View's new policy is just another example of Google Privacy Theatre. Open Open Tab September 12, 2008 Provides Information Google's new privacy link The company has made a minor change to its home page, adding to the copyright line the word "Privacy" and linking to its Privacy Center. Open Open Tab July 5, 2008 Provides Information Google's Picasa for Linux catches up to Windows Google has brought to Linux the beta version of its new Picasa 3 software for image editing, cataloging, and uploading. Open Open Tab October 3, 2008 Provides Information Google's search ad share now up to 77 percent Google increased its share of money spent on search ads to 77.4 percent in the second quarter, up 2 percentage points from the year-earlier period, according to new data that doubtless will interest those gauging the antitrust implications of the search leader's new advertising partnership with Yahoo. Open Open Tab July 17, 2008 Provides Information Google's Shadow Hung Over Microsoft-Yahoo Deal In the end, Google played a significant part in the undoing of Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, the latest example of Google's ability to interfere with Microsoft's attempts to boost its online advertising business. Open Open Tab May 3, 2008 Provides Information Google's U.S. Search Share Hits 63% Google's August search engine market share in the U.S. rose to 63 percent, costing rivals Yahoo and Microsoft some losses. Yahoo dipped below 20 percent while Microsoft slipped to 8.3 percent, according to researcher comScore. However, Ask.com grew 0.3 percent and AOL rose 0.1 percent. Open Open Tab September 19, 2008 Provides Information Google's U.S. search share nears 70 percent Google's steadily increasing search share neared 70 percent in June in the United States, according to new figures released Tuesday by Hitwise. Open Open Tab July 15, 2008 Provides Information Google's Urchin 6 Arrives After Years-long Delay A major upgrade to Google's Urchin Web analytics server software has finally shipped after a delay of about three-and-a-half years. Open Open Tab April 16, 2008 Provides Information Google's YouTube Blasted Over Copyrights A coalition of Japanese television, music and film companies slammed YouTube Thursday, saying the online video sharing service was not doing enough to rid the site of cartoons and other clips that infringe on copyrights. Open Open Tab August 2, 2007 Provides Information Google, Mozilla extend search box deal That little Google search box in the upper right part of your Firefox browser will be sticking around through 2011, according to Mozilla. Open Open Tab August 28, 2008 Provides Information Got an idea to help the world? Here's $10 million Got an idea that could change the world, or at least help a lot of people? Google wants to hear from you -- and they'll pay as much as $10 million to make your idea a reality. Open Open Tab September 24, 2008 Provides Information H Hackers target Google Gadgets Many users inclined to inherently trust what they download from Google. Open Open Tab August 7, 2008 Provides Information Hackers Turn Google Into Password Hunter The hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow this week released a tool that turns Google into an automated vulnerability scanner. Open Open Tab February 22, 2008 Provides Information Half baked: 45 percent of Google projects in beta Google has an infamous propensity to keep projects in beta for an unusually long time, and now somebody has gone to the trouble of quantifying just how widespread the testing tag is at the Internet giant. Open Open Tab September 24, 2008 Provides Information How to conquer Gmail in 6 easy ways Whether it's filters or labels, organizing mail is a snap. Open Open Tab December 19, 2007 Provides Information I Improved Sharing Features Push Google Reader Into FriendFeed Territory When Google added its sharing feature to Reader last year, there were no options to control which people you shared news with. Couple that with the fact that Gmail added anyone who ever e-mailed you to your list of contacts and you had a recipe for sharing disaster. Open Open Tab August 14, 2008 Provides Information Is Google Ad Traffic Really Dropping? Hitwise disputes ComScore figures that analysts interpret as a sign from Google that Web business is slowi