For most of the past week, when someone typed “Michelle Obama” in the popular search engine Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady altered to resemble a monkey. On Wednesday morning, the racially offensive image appeared to have been removed from any Google Image searches [...]
Google unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers. “We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … to boot up like a TV,” [...]
Why would Google do this when it doesn’t have to and is likely counterproductive? Rumors are once again swirling around the idea that a Google-branded “Superphone” will hit the market next year. How stupid do these people think Google is? Well, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington seems to think “pretty stupid,” yet lays out and interesting, if [...]
Ever wonder what information Google knows about you? With a click or two, now you can find out. Google released a feature Thursday that lets users see and control data that the Web giant has collected about them. Called Google Dashboard, the service provides an online summary of a user’s Google files — Gmail, Google [...]
Well, Google’s done it again: Tossed a monkey wrench inside a well-oiled, profitable machine, and gummed it up good. Of course, I’m talkin g out the company’s foray into the turn-by-turn GPS navigation market, a bold move that’s bound to cause more than a few migraines at the headquarters of GPS kingpins Garmin and TomTom. [...]
Google said Tuesday’s widespread Gmail outage occurred when the company took some servers offline to perform routine maintenance, causing its remaining routers to become overloaded with traffic. “We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications, and we take it very seriously when there’s a problem with the service,” wrote Ben [...]
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc inked a 10-year web search deal to better compete against market leader Google Inc but stopped short of combining their display advertising businesses. Shares of Yahoo, which had risen in recent weeks in anticipation of this deal, fell more than 7% in premarket trading, while shares of Microsoft edged higher. [...]
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, Google on Monday releasedMoon in Google Earth, which allows users to explore lunar images and related lunar content. In a post on the official Google blog, Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer and a trustee of the XPRIZE Foundation, says [...]
The search powerhouse’s second-quarter earnings increased 19%, but investors got spooked by a drop in revenue per click The online ad market will remain in the doldrums, investors concluded after Google (GOOG) reported second-quarter earnings. Results released July 16 showed a big drop in so-called revenue per click, a measure of the value placed by [...]
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