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Mozilla welcomes competition from Google's Chrome
News However, Lilly, writing in his blog, said he welcomed the competition posed by Google. Mozilla chief executive John Lilly on Tuesday waxed philosophical about the release of Google's new web browser, Chrome, despite the launch signalling an attempt...
[September 2, 2008, 9:53]
Schoolgirl wins Google Doodle competition
News A London schoolgirl has beaten thousands of rivals and won a competition to create a doodle for Google's UK Web site. Google held the competition to mark the launch of a new London office, which like Google California office is called The...
[November 16, 2005, 18:00]
Schoolgirl wins Google Doodle competition
Talkback There're some clever bods at Google, I always look forward to the logos.
[November 16, 2005, 18:08]
Google Project 10^100 update 'within a month'
News Google is promising to shed light on its 'Project 10 to the 100th' competition — announced last year as part of its 10th anniversary celebration — within a month: or just in time for its 11th anniversary.
[August 19, 2009, 9:11]
Photos: Google gets kids doodling
News Some of the London School children who entered a competition to design a new "Google Doodle" for the Google UK homepage arrive at the The Doodle 4 Google competition was open to school children aged four to 18 years-old in the local area.
[November 17, 2005, 11:40]
Google searches for picture of Britishness
News Google has launched a competition which invites schoolchildren to create an image which represents what it's like to live in the United Kingdom for display on the company's famously sparse UK homepage.
[April 11, 2006, 10:00]
Google Chrome heats up browser wars
News Google Chrome is a warning shot over the bows of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Microsoft has lit a fire under its IE team and, given that Google is such a powerful Microsoft rival, that fire doubtless will burn all the hotter...
[September 3, 2008, 11:50]
Australia sets date for Google keyword case
News The Australian Federal Court has set a hearing date for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's allegations against Google of misleading and deceptive conduct. Last Friday, Justice James Allsop set a hearing date of 23 June for the...
[November 19, 2007, 11:17]
Google-Yahoo deal gets EC antitrust scrutiny
News On Monday, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) came out in opposition to the deal, saying it would weaken the competition for search marketing between Google and Yahoo and lead to higher prices and less revenue for newspapers, which rely on...
[September 16, 2008, 11:46]
AskJeeves to take on Google
News AskJeeves launched a new search engine Monday, going toe-to-toe on quality claims with Web darling Google. It sounds like (Teoma) should be a worthy competitor to Google," said Jarvis Mak, a senior analyst at Nielsen/NetRatings.
[April 2, 2002, 17:06]
Google makes IM/VoIP play
News Google has launched an instant-messaging (IM) program that allows text chat and computer-to-computer voice connections, a move that highlights the search giant's increasing competition with Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online.
[August 24, 2005, 9:15]
Italian regulators open Google News inquiry
News Competition regulators in Italy have opened an inquiry into Google News at the behest of publishers, which allege they are banned from search results unless they agree to be part of it. Google Italy representatives were quoted in several places as...
[August 28, 2009, 11:44]
Photos: Eastern Europe dominates Google Code Jam
News Google uses the Code Jam competition as a way of attracting engineering talent to its European R&D centres. Programmers from across Europe went head to head in Dublin at Google’s first ever Code Jam Europe event this week, competing for a share of...
[June 30, 2006, 17:05]
EC extends Google-DoubleClick probe again
News As part of the investigation, European regulators will delve in greater detail into whether a merger between search giant Google and online ad titan DoubleClick would harm competition. European antitrust regulators will conduct a more extensive...
[November 14, 2007, 7:15]
Boldly Googling into the future
News And when other tech companies are announcing job cuts, Google continues to swell staff numbers with computer science PhD's, currently totalling 60, through schemes such as its Code Jam competition. ZDNet UK spoke to Google chief technology officer...
[September 30, 2003, 16:20]
Google acquisition extends search to space
News The acquisition of Keyhole underscores Google's efforts to widen its search capabilities beyond basic Web page results, as competition in the search sector heats up. Google faces competition in the Web search arena from a variety of sources...
[October 28, 2004, 9:09]
Search guru offers wish list of Google reforms
News Competition would help Google, which today wrestles with market share nearing 70 percent in the US that makes it too conspicuous a monopoly target. Google talks about how competition from other search engines is only one click away on the web, but...
[February 11, 2009, 15:34]
Google brewing new architecture with 'Caffeine'
News The Microsoft-Yahoo alliance is seen as providing stronger competition for Google, the overwhelming market leader in search. Google is trying out a new search architecture in an attempt to make its search service faster, more comprehensive and more...
[August 11, 2009, 16:01]
Google Books opposition stacks up on deadline
News Their guile has cleared much of the field in digital book distribution, shielding Google from meaningful competition. Several groups opposed to Google's Book Search settlement filed court briefs outlining their concerns on Tuesday, the last day...
[September 9, 2009, 9:06]
Google to launch location-sharing Latitude software
News Google's clearest competitor, Yahoo, also offers some competition with Fire Eagle. That includes online documents and various aspects of social networking, which are much more personal services and ones that put Google into more direct competition...
[February 4, 2009, 7:55]
