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Articles tagged "google" Column: BackslashWhat’s More Dangerous on the Web—Hackers or Hacks?by Liz Colville[16.Nov.09] :. Content producers have the power to be whomever they want, but if they let themselves be dictated too much by factors like Google, page views, and ad revenue, they end up simply joining a droning, mundane chorus of mediocrity. NewsGoogle’s desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliathby Mike Swift [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][4.Nov.09] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google’s ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest...  NewsGoogle rolls out preview of Waveby Mike Swift [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][1.Oct.09] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google hits a key milestone Wednesday for a product that the search giant hopes will transform how people communicate and collaborate online, and perhaps hook more users on... NewsGoogle’s Chrome OS a direct shot across Microsoft’s bowby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][10.Jul.09] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google’s dramatic announcement that it is developing its own operating system seems designed to target Microsoft squarely in its Achilles’ heel: the shift to... NewsGoogle may rule, but Bing shows zingby Brier Dudley [The Seattle Times (MCT)][4.Jun.09] :. Bing won’t replace Google as the world’s default search engine, but it does a few things well. Well enough that Microsoft’s new search engine may be worth a try the next time... NewsGoogle updates search engineby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][14.May.09] :. Google has unveiled several updates to its search engine that take advantage of the increasing sophistication of the World Wide Web. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products, told reporters... Google CEO appeals to skeptical newspaper groupby John Letzing [MarketWatch (MCT)][8.Apr.09] :. SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt sought to allay newspaper industry executives’ concerns on Tuesday, telling them they need to work together with the Internet giant... Google makes its foray into behavioral targetingby John Letzing [MarketWatch (MCT)][12.Mar.09] :. SAN FRANCISCO - While Google Inc. has long been in a position to accumulate data about Internet users, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company on Wednesday took its first significant public step... New university founded by Google seeks brightest minds for interdisciplinary R&Dby Mike Swift [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][4.Feb.09] :. entrepreneurs in fields like artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and genetics to help the planet. The venture, to be permanently based at NASA’s Moffett Field, Calif., is being announced... Google Earth expands reach to oceansby Paul Rogers [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][4.Feb.09] :. Starting Tuesday, if you want to explore the world’s oceans - from the bottom of Monterey Bay to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef - you won’t need a scuba tank or submarine, only a... A year after Microsoft buyout offer made, Yahoo struggles to define itselfby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][2.Feb.09] :. SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Soon after he was named chief executive of Yahoo, Jerry Yang turned to Steve Jobs for advice. On stage before several hundred senior Yahoo executives, Yang asked the Apple CEO... Google offers up a new vision of computing’s futureby Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][24.Sep.08] :. 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... Resurfaced story raises questions on Google searchby Benjamin Pimentel [MarketWatch (MCT)][12.Sep.08] :. SAN FRANCISCO - It has long been the popular term for lightning-speed Web searches. But could “Google” eventually come to mean stumbling accidentally and disastrously onto misleading... Google’s Chrome browser gives users more optionsby Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][3.Sep.08] :. Most computer users don’t think much about their Web browser. The lion’s share just click on the small blue “e” (for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer) they see on their... Google’s wireless efforts drawing political fireby John Letzing [MarketWatch (MCT)][27.Aug.08] :. SAN FRANCISCO - The ultramodern wireless network expected to showcase Google Inc.‘s operating system and applications for mobile phones is becoming entangled in an old-fashioned political... Google tries its hand in traditional adsby Katherine Yung [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][2.Jul.08] :. Ten years ago this September, two Stanford University doctoral students launched a business that would revolutionize how millions of people use the Internet. Yes, Google is getting older, at least... Google adds measure for online ads to mixby Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][25.Jun.08] :. If the Internet is so measurable, as one hears over and over from advertisers flocking to the Web, how come we keep getting new metrics to help us count? Ask the question to some people in the... Echoes of newspapers’ survival strategies — and it may not work this time, eitherby Brier Dudley [The Seattle Times (MCT)][13.Jun.08] :. SEATTLE - Are the Internet giants going the way of newspapers in the 1970s and 1980s, when papers started consolidating and signing joint-operating agreements to sustain themselves? The Yahoo-Google... Yahoo’s high price for coddling Googleby Elise Ackerman and Pete Carey [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][20.Mar.08] :. Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture. In cut-throat... Yahoo, AOL Microsoft striving to stay relevantby Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][20.Feb.08] :. In the 1990s, the Internet portal was the gateway and the gatekeeper to the Web, a place filled with a variety of content, from reprinted magazine articles to choppy playback of movie... Flattery or Piracy?by Jillian Burt[7.Dec.07] :. The business of content scraping and referral spam Google unveils wireless plansby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][6.Nov.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google, already the fifth-most-valuable company in the United States thanks to search ads on PCs, has a plan to move up the ranks: It wants to be the Microsoft of mobile... The Google gusher: Internet giant’s staff living the high lifeby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News, Calif. (MCT)][17.Oct.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—After Google’s IPO in August 2004, so much money began pouring out of the Mountain View, Calif., company that people started talking about “the Google... Why Yahoo, not Google, should drive your searchby Steve Johnson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][17.Oct.07] :. For the most recent chunk of our Internet lives, most of us have been on autopilot. When it comes time to look something up on the Web, we “Google” it. We don’t do this... Is Google getting ready to unveil a `gPhone’?by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][30.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—It has been a long, dry summer for technology bloggers—even those based far from California. Since Apple’s release of the iPhone on June 29, there has been... Google’s growth has come at a priceby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][22.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—Google’s historic IPO took place three years ago this month, and the Mountain View, Calif., search giant has an anniversary present for its founders: Not only did Larry... YouTube outlines how it plans to make moneyby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][22.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—It has been Google’s $1.65 billion question: How to convert YouTube’s whopping popularity into ad dollars without turning off the site’s enthusiastic... Google staffs up in nation’s capitalby Frank Davies [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][22.Jun.07] :. WASHINGTON - Slowly but surely, the government is getting Googled. Two years ago, the Google staff in Washington was one person - Alan Davidson, an expert in technology law. Now the staff numbers a... Google may be eyeing massive YouTube video databaseby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][13.Jun.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video... Google revamps search engineby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][17.May.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—In a bold and potentially risky move, Google is making dramatic changes to the way it helps hundreds of millions of people find information on the Internet. Executives... Will Googling books be page in history or footnote?by Mark Johnson [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][14.May.07] :. MILWAUKEE—Google me Ishmael. Someone somewhere in the world is searching for the opening lines of Melville’s “Moby Dick,” or maybe a phrase from Toni Morrison’s... Another happy quarter for Googleby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][20.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Recent research shows that money won’t necessarily make you happy. But it turns out that making other people happy, or at least trying to, can make you gobs of money. That... Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billionby Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][14.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google has once again thwarted Microsoft’s Internet ambitions, announcing Friday that it has agreed to buy DoubleClick, a maker of advertising software, for $3.1 billion in... Google faces brain drain as anniversaries hitby Mark Schwanhausser and Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][11.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—Less than three years after going public, Google is confronting one of the more confounding consequences of its phenomenal success: a potential brain drain if its... |
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