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Google's Chris DiBona On Linux And GPLv3
Blog The Guardian published an interesting interview with Google's Chris DiBona on Thursday. In it, he explains that Google isn't happy about the proposed new version of the GPL licence (likely compliance problems), why it uses Linux not Windows (cheap...
[November 3, 2006, 7:14]
Google's Upcoming Identity Crisis
News In plotting its future, is Google following its rivals too closely? Google has some catching up to do in the "personalisation" front, analysts said. Analysts conjectured that Google might populate home pages with banner ads, as rivals have done.
[May 23, 2005, 10:30]
Google's Copyright Controversies
News It's part of their absolutist approach," said Joshua Kaufman, an attorney representing Agence France-Presse in the wire service's copyright dispute with Google. If Google is wrong about fair use, it probably has to go out of business," she said.
[August 8, 2006, 16:55]
Google's Results Are No Cause For Concern
News Google investors can be a nervous bunch. And people shouldn't forget that this isn't the first time Google has blundered. Google's net income for the quarter was $925m, or $2.93 a share, up from $721m, or $2.33 a share, a year earlier.
[July 20, 2007, 11:12]
Google's OpenSocial App Hacked In 45 Minutes
News The first application launched under Google's OpenSocial API program has been taken down, shortly after it was discovered a hacker could use it to change user profiles. A developer who uses the nickname "harmonyguy" alerted Plaxo's vice president...
[November 5, 2007, 8:20]
Google's 'death Penalty' Strikes Another Company
News A decision by Google to blacklist BMW's German Web site for allegedly boosting its Internet search ranking in breach of Google guidelines has divided experts and Web users, as another big-name company comes in for the same treatment.
[February 8, 2006, 9:05]
Google's Business Apps Sparks Debate
News With the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain, the online search giant hopes to cash in on the market for-on demand applications. Analysts have welcomed the move but some question the company's motives and wonder whether our personal data is safe...
[August 30, 2006, 12:15]
Google's Non-paranoid Android
Leader If you were disappointed by Android, the subject of Google's mobile-strategy announcement, then you were hoping for the wrong thing. Google's feelings towards Apple, iPhone or no, are warmly neutral. Google will be happy if Android keeps things...
[November 6, 2007, 14:43]
Google's Search For Mobile Goes East
News Google is providing its search engine and advertising to mobile phones in Japan. Google's search engine will provide the content for mobile phones on KDDI's EZweb internet service, as well as for PCs in general.
[May 19, 2006, 9:35]
Google's Desktop Search Leaves Beta
News Google on Monday introduced a full version of its desktop-search software, with a developer's kit and support for Firefox and Netscape Web browsers. Already, Google has built a plug-in to search conversations in chat software Trillian.
[March 7, 2005, 8:05]
Google's Long-term Dominance Doubted
News When it comes to search engines, people overwhelmingly prefer Google -- but increasing competition from a number of rivals could eventually threaten the company's top spot, a study has shown. The survey released Tuesday by market research firm...
[May 26, 2004, 8:30]
Google's Desktop Liberation Tool
Talkback So Google's servers can now not only read all my e-mails, but every document on my hard drive? quote from Terms and conditions: Google Desktop Search may collect certain non-personally identifiable information that resides on your computer no...
[October 15, 2004, 14:55]
Google's Android Paves Way For Mobile Supremacy
News With a leap into software for mobile devices, Google has a chance to control the way people look at the internet. By creating a mobile operating system that developers will be writing to and carriers will be installing on their handsets Google is...
[November 7, 2007, 15:23]
Google's First Results Due
News Financial analysts are predicting strong third-quarter earnings for Google on growth of search-related advertising, but some caution that its stock is still overvalued. Analysts project Google's earnings to rise sequentially from between 10 percent...
[October 21, 2004, 10:10]
Google's IPO Seeks $2.7bn
News Internet search leader Google filed to go public on Thursday, seeking to raise $2.7bn (£3.2bn) in an unusual auction-style offering that will give the founders rare control over the company. During the most recent quarter, which ended on 31 March...
[April 30, 2004, 8:30]
If You've Got The Cash, Google's Got The Answer
News In yet another test of new services, Google is quietly wading into the expert-advice market, a lackluster business that proved too taxing for some former Net highfliers. The search site launched the beta site Google Answers, where "live researchers...
[April 22, 2002, 9:08]
Google's Search Will Go Beyond The Browser
Leader News that Google has hired one of Sun's senior Java chaps and a bunch of browser specialists has kicked off a predictable round of speculation. On the face of it, there's nothing for Google in the browser market.
[September 24, 2004, 12:35]
Google's Index Expands And Gmail Goes POP
News In a posting on the company's own blog on Wednesday, Bill Coughran, vice-president of engineering, announced that Google's index now exceeds eight billion pages. Some critics have claimed in the past that one of Google's flaws is that a search will...
[November 11, 2004, 8:27]
Google's Fight For The 'Gmail' Name
Talkback Years before Google, many organizations used the Gmail email product from Gallaher & Robertson. What about G&R's Gmail? G&R supplied many local authorities in the UK.
[September 16, 2006, 10:59]
Google's New Hire Hits Back
News Kai-Fu Lee, whose hiring by Google prompted a lawsuit by his former employer Microsoft, has denied the software giant's claims about his role in its business. Last month, Microsoft sued Lee and Google, charging that Lee had broken a one-year non...
[August 22, 2005, 9:35]
