Google News from other News Media:
Google's share of search market falls, Nielsen says
[Google's search engine, lost market share in December for the first time
since June, according to Nielsen Online. Queries to Google fell to 56.3%
from 57.7% in November. Yahoo Search dropped to 17.7% from 17.9%.
Microsoft captured 13.8% of searches, up from 12% in November.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 1-19-2008)
Mobile-application developers grow tired of waiting for Google's Android code
[Dubbed Android, after a company Google acquired in 2005, the software
promised by Google's Open Handset Alliance was supposed to give
programmers everything they needed to design a sophisticated cell
phone and add their own applications. But Google has yet to deliver.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 1-19-2008)
Google's philanthropy aims to change the world
[Can nearly $2 billion make the world a better place? Google aims to find out.
Google wants to: (1) Help communities identify local "hot spots" before they turn
into local, regional or global crises, like a mass pandemic. (2) Fix failing
public services in developing countries, especially for the poor. (3) Target
medium-size business - "the missing middle" - that can't access resources available
to large businesses and micro-enterprises. (4) Develop renewable energy cheaper
than coal. (5) Accelerate the commercialization of plug-in vehicles.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 1-18-2008)
GPS adds dimension to online photos [To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps,
John Higham scoured scores of photos plotted along his route on a digital map
for clues to the steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or
camp sites. This emerging practice is known as "geotagging". Photo-sharing services
like SmugMug, Google's Picasa & Panoramio, and Yahoo's Flickr let you manually add
photos to a map. Google also extended geotagging to its YouTube video-sharing site.]
(By Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer, SiliconValley.com, 1-18-2008)
Google.org to disburse more than $26M
[Google Inc.'s philanthropic arm is making more than $26 million in new grants
and investments in organizations and companies devoted to causes that the
Internet search leader believes will help make the world a better place.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-17-2008)
Google's unofficial food critic: Chefs woo techie who e-mails reviews to co-workers
[Thunder Parley is the most famous foodie at a company that takes gastronomy
nearly as seriously as Web-search algorithms. He draws crowds to dishes offered
in Google's 17 cafeterias by championing them in reviews he posts to an internal
e-mail list about food. Google chefs compete good-naturedly to entice Parley to
their cafes, according to John Dickman, Google's global food service manager.]
(By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times, SiliconValley.com, 1-16-2008)
Magellan partners with Google for local listings on connected GPS device
[Magellan Navigation Inc. has teamed with Google to put local business listings
on its first portable navigation device to feature wireless connectivity.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-5-2008)
NASA to fly over Arctic in Google founders' jet
[A Gulfstream V aircraft owned by Google's founders is taking flight today on
a scientific mission to view what's anticipated to be one of the most brilliant
meteor showers of the new year, NASA officials reported. Scientists believe the
Quadrantid meteor shower may produce more than 100 visible meteors/hour at its peak.]
(By Melanie Carroll, Bay Area News Group, SiliconValley.com, 1-3-2008)
Google change triggers uproar [A small change to Google Reader
has caused a big stir among users of the online service, which lets
people gather updates of blogs and Web sites onto a single Web page.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 12-27-2007)
Reports: Japan's largest mobile phone carrier in deal with Google
[Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will join with Internet search engine
Google to provide Internet search and e-mail services on the company's handsets.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-24-2007)
Google gets OK to buy ad firm: Doublclick deal raises no antitrust concerns
[Google won FTC approval to proceed with its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition
of DoubleClick, although the agency acknowledged concerns about the impact
that combining two online advertising giants could have on consumer privacy.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 12-21-2007)
Google adds Columbia University to Web books project
[Google added to its online book library Columbia University, the fourth Ivy League
school to join. Google will make hundreds of Columbia's book collections available
in digital form for free. The collections range from architecture to political
science. Columbia is the 28th institution to sign onto Google's library project.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2007)
Chinese company sues Google over the name 'Guge'
[Beijing Guge Sci-Tech Co. was officially registered at the Beijing Municipal
Industrial and Commercial Bureau on April 19, 2006, but Google didn't register
the name "Guge" in China until Nov. 24, 2006. Google says the name "Guge,"
which is not a Chinese word, was created by the Beijing-based company.
The Chinese characters mean "valley" and "song."]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2007)
Google working on Internet encyclopedia
[Google is working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material
submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from
their knowledge. The concept, in a posting on Google's Web site, poses a potential
challenge to the nonprofit Wikipedia, which has drawn upon the collective wisdom
of unpaid, anonymous contributors to emerge as a widely used reference tool.
Google is calling its alternative "knol" shorthand for a "unit of knowledge.
"
For now, submissions are by invitation only as Google fine tunes the system,
but Google said it will eventually publish articles by all comers.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2007)
Google adds e-mail, calendar tabs to site for iPhone
[Google added buttons to its homepage for Apple's iPhone so users can
check e-mail, view their calendars and track blogs on a single site.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 12-6-2007)
Google to battle telecom giants for wireless Web
[Count Larry and Sergey in. After weeks of playing coy, Google said it will bid
in the auction for a highly coveted part of the nation's airwaves, setting the
stage for a multibillion-dollar game of corporate poker that could determine
who controls the wireless Web in the U.S. Other players include AT&T and
Verizon Wireless, the two biggest cell phone companies, as well as Frontline
Wireless, a start-up backed by venture capitalists John Doerr & Ram Shriram.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 12-1-2007)
Google: Go green for cost of coal [Google said that it'll spend
"tens of millions" to research clean-energy alternatives to coal-fired
power plants and "hundreds of millions" to cut the costs of this power.]
(By Matt Nauman, San Jose Mercury News, 11-28-2007)
Google plans online storage service [Google plans to offer online storage
as part of an attempt to shift personal computing to the Web. This essentially
frees consumers to view their data wherever they are and makes them less dependent
on a single hard drive. This intensifies Google's competition with Microsoft, since
a consumer who stores data on the Web may have less need for Microsoft's desktop
software. When data, services and applications are stored and run from Internet
servers, are referred to as "cloud computing" in contrast to desktop computing.]
(Wall Street Journal report cited in San Jose Mercury News, 11-27-2007)
Tech takes back seat during Obama's visit to Google [Obama told about his
his last 2004 visit to Google in his book, "The Audacity of Hope." He mentioned
a screen image of the revolving Earth in Google's front lobby with points of light
emanating from around the globe and shooting into the atmosphere. Those were points
where Google searches from computer users were happening at the moment. "What struck
me wasn't the light, but the darkness," he said - those areas in Africa, China,
parts of America and elsewhere that don't have computer access. "You and I must
not settle for anything less than bringing light" to that darkness, Obama said.
When asked about his perceived lack of experience for the White House,
Obama drove home a point the audience could appreciate. "Sergey and Larry
didn't have a lot of experience starting this Fortune 100 company,"
he said of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.]
(By Julia Prodis Sulek, San Jose Mercury News, 11-15-2007)
Google co-founder Larry Page to wed [Silicon Valley's richest bachelor is
getting married next month. Google's co-founder Larry Page, whose stake in the
Internet search leader is worth about $20 billion, and Lucy Southworth are tying
the knot in a ceremony scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8, according to a report
published Tuesday in the San Francisco Chronicle. Page, 34, is following in the
footsteps of Google's other founder, Sergey Brin, who married Anne Wojcicki six months
ago in an exclusive ceremony in the Caribbean. Southworth was a biomedical informatics
doctoral student at Stanford. Page has been dating Southworth for more than a year.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-14-2007)
Google offering cash prizes to code writers [Google, hoping to gin up
excitement among developers for its mobile-phone operating system, is offering
$10 million in prizes to code writers to create applications for the new
platform, known as Android. Cash prizes will range from $25,000 to $275,000,]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 11-12-2007)
Microsoft CEO plays down Google threat in online business [Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch new Windows Live services, played down the
threat of Google on Thursday, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in
online searches. Microsoft began offering its Windows Live programming package
for e-mail, instant messaging, blogging and photo-sharing in Japan]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-8-2007)
Google to help lost drivers: Gas station pumps will display local maps, print directions
[Lost drivers soon will be able to Google for help at the pump. The pumps, made by
Gilbarco Veeder-Root, include an Internet connection and display Google's map service
on a small screen. Motorists will be able to scroll through several categories to find
local landmarks, hotels, restaurants and hospitals selected by the gas station's owner.
After the driver selects a destination, the pump will print out directions.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-7-2007)
Google dials into the cell phone market [Google wants to become as influential
in the mobile market as it is on the InternetÐand the online search leader thinks
it can do that without sticking its prized brand on a cell phone. Google is hoping
Android opens another lucrative channel for peddling ads and services to people
when they're away from their personal computers, supplementing their online revenue.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-5-2007)
Google stock price soars above $700 for first time
[Google gained $12.23 to finish at a new peak of $707. It took less than a month
for the stock to leap from $600 to $700, building upon a fervor that has lifted
Google's market value by 34% since mid-September. During that 6 1/2-week stretch,
Google created an additional $55 billion in shareholder wealth. That dwarfs the
total $42 billion market value of Yahoo, which had a 4-year head start on Google.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-31-2007)
Google to buy Nielsen data [Determined to sell more television ads, Internet
search leader Google is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data
from the influential Nielsen Co. Even as it expands its ad platform into TV, radio
and print, Google continues to make most of its money from text-based ad links
posted next to search results and other online content. The Google alliance appeals
to Nielsen because the rating firm is trying to develop new measurement techniques
and extend its reach into more digital media, such as iPods and mobile phones.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-23-2007)
New Google tools help with Hindi, other S. Asian languages
[Google unveiled two tools to help users with English keyboards write
in Hindi and search for terms in 14 languages spoken in India and other
countries in South Asia. Users can search for Web sites in Assamese,
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and other languages.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 8-21-2007)
Google's growth has come at a price [Since Google went public
Aug. 19, 2004, at $85 a share, its market value has grown nearly 500%
to $156 billion. In comparison, Microsoft's value had not quite
quadrupled on its 3rd anniversary way back in March 1989.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-19-2007)
Google: Mobile search will help it get bigger than Baidu in China
[The number of Chinese consumers searching for information on their
mobile phones may surpass those visiting Web sites on computers by 2009.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 8-17-2007)
Airline sues Google over keyword ads
[American Airlines is suing Google over the Internet company's sale
of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks.]
(By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-17-2007)
Google's AdSense to distribute videos
[Short Internet videos from the creator of the animated TV show
"Family Guy" and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show
"That's So Raven," will be distributed over Google's AdSense network]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-16-2007)
Google distributing Sun office software for free
[Google quietly began including Sun's StarOffice suite of
word processing, spreadsheets and other workplace-oriented
programs for free as part of the Google Pack download.]
(By JORDAN ROBERTSON, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-15-2007)
Google leases historic HP site: Search Engine Giant's Spree Leases Former Agilent HQ
[In a real-estate spree that shows no sign of stopping, upstart Google has leased
395 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. The office building, which served as Agilent Technologies'
headquarters for six years, was the site of HP's original 10,000-square-foot campus, built
two years after founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard left the famous garage.]
(By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, 7-12-2007)
* Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World
[In Building 45 on Google's Mountain View campus, John Hanke clicks the 3-foot image
of Earth projected on his office wall and spins it around to India. Hanke, the director
of Google Earth and Google Maps, zooms in for a closer look at Bangalore.]
(By Evan Ratliff, Wired Magazine 15.07, 6-26-2007)
Google, Intel going green [Google and Intel threw their weight behind
an initiative Tuesday to help blunt the impact of global warming by
bringing greater energy efficiency to personal computers and servers.]
(By Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News, 6-13-2007)
Suit vs. Google, YouTube widens
[Federation Francaise de Tennis, the Ligue de Football Professionel
soccer group and Cherry Lane Music Publishing, back England's Football
Association Premier League in its suit against Google, Inc.]
(By Jeff St. Onge & Ari Levy, Bloomberg News, 6-7-2007)
Salesforce.com to unveil Google ad channel
[Salesforce.com will roll out a new version of its service so its
32,300 customers can distribute their online ads through Google,]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 6-5-2007)
Google buys RSS firm FeedBurner [Google paid $100 million for
FeedBurner, a Chicago company focused on distributing digital media
through a technology known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 6-2-2007)
Google's new mapping feature includes unwitting subjects
[Google bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it
looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures
that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 6-1-2007)
Street-level views added to Google's Internet maps site
[Google announced it would add a two-dimensional "street view" to
five cities in Google Maps, letting users navigate the streets in
the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-30-2007)
Google service translates results in 12 languages
[Besides English, Google's search-results translator works in
Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian,
Japanese, Korean, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 5-24-2007)
Google aims for 3-D world
[Google is hoping a robotic car will prove to be a secret weapon in its
ongoing battle with Microsoft to extend the frontiers of the Internet.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-19-2007)
Google to use YouTube to amass video database
[Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion. It may provide a way for Google
to easily and legally amass the world's biggest database of video,
helping it figure out better ways to search that kind of material.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-17-2007)
Stanley to Drive for Google
[Technology developed by the Stanford Racing Team for a self-driving car
named Stanley could help Google create photo-realistic 3-D representations
of urban areas. Google Earth could eventually become a virtual environment
used for shopping, telecommuting and online games.]
(AI Magazine, SiliconValley.com, 5-19-2007)
Google shows off new office building in Ann Arbor
[The facility is a sales center for Google's AdWords program, which allows
advertisers to create keyword-based ads that display alongside online search
results. The office eventually will employ as many as 1,000 people]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 5-17-2007)
Google retools search engine [Google unveiled a new master search engine
at the company's Mountain View headquarters. In addition to pointing people
to Web sites, Google will now steer them to digital books, movies, images,
news articles and maps that could contain the answers they are looking for.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-17-2007)
Google co-founder's wedding so secret, guests didn't know locale
[Google co-founder Sergey Brin and longtime sweetheart Anne Wojcicki, a biotech
entrepreneur, exchanged vows recently in the Bahamas, in a ceremony so hush-hush
that word didn't leak out for more than a week. Date was from May 4 to May 6.]
(By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, 5-17-2007)
Shareholders happy at Google [More than 200 Google shareholders
turned the company's annual meeting into a love fest, praising company
executives for their stewardship of the world's most popular search engine.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-11-2007)
Thailand drops plan to sue Google over video clips offensive to king
[The Thai government blocked access to YouTube - a popular video-sharing
site owned by Google - on April 4, after Google Inc. turned down Thailand's
request to remove the clips seen as offensive to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 5-11-2007)
CEO Schmidt says Google trying to expand China market share
[Google has 22% of China's search market, well behind industry leader
Baidu.com Inc., which has 55%, according to iResearch Inc.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-27-2007)
Google keeps up strong growth
[Google's first-quarter net profits rising 69% and revenues swelling 63%
to $3.66 billion. Google was trading around $480 in after-hours trading,
up more than 2 percent after release of the earnings report.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 4-13-2007)
Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
[The deal would pair the Web's most popular search engine, and leader
in text-ads, with one of the leading distributors of online display
advertising, Hellman & Friedman, which owns DoubleClick.]
(By Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News, 4-13-2007)
Google plans to open operations center in Poland
[Google said it will open the "center of innovation" in Wroclaw
in the coming months and begin hiring 200 workers immediately.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-12-2007)
Google maps Darfur genocide
[Google Earth - with 200 million users - has joined with the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to focus its high-tech lens
and high-powered search on the atrocities in Darfur.]
(By Frank Davies, MediaNews Washington Bureau, 4-11-2007)
Google, Agence France-Presse settle suit with licensing deal
[The deal allows Google to use headlines & photos on Google News and
other services that drive online traffic to sites displaying AFP news.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-6-2007)
Google trio's salaries: $1 each
[The trio of billionaires who run Google collected less than $600,000
in combined compensation last year while they raked in big jackpots
by selling some of their holdings. Brin sold 1.99 million shares for
a total of $788 million last year while Page pocketed $666 million
by selling 1.72 million shares. Schmidt cashed out 1.39 million
shares during 2006 for a total $580 million.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-5-2007)
Google providing new tools for maps
[Google will provide free tools designed to make it easy for people to share
their knowledge about their neighborhoods and other favorite places by creating
customized maps that can assemble information from a variety of sources.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-5-2007)
'Cheating' the search engines [Type "miserable failure" and the
official George Bush White House site shows up as top of search result.
Google decided to tweak its search algorithm to spot link bombs,
and the miserable failure dropped away. On other search engines,
such as Ask, it remains high. "Tony Blair" was top search for "Liar".]
(By Spencer Kelly, BBC News, 4-5-2007)
What to do when a snake is missing at Google? Search, of course!
[An employee's python went missing over the weekend in Google's sprawling
Manhattan office, sending search teams on an all-out snake hunt. Searchers
scoured the complex for the 3-foot-long snake and finally found the serpent,
known as Kaiser, on Monday night "relaxing behind a cabinet."]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-4-2007)
Google to sell ads for Dish Network
[EchoStar Communications, operates the Dish Network service, which has more
than 13 million customers nationwide, making it the second-largest satellite-TV
provider after DirecTV. Google is setting up an online system to allow advertisers
to buy time slots and track viewership of ads served to Dish Network customers.]
(By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 4-3-2007)
LG to add Google functions to mobile phones
[South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. said it plans to start shipping globally
select handsets with Google products and services including Google Maps,
Blogger Mobile and Gmail during the second quarter of this year.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-27-2007)
Insiders: Google stock enriches VC Doerr
[Since Google held its initial public offering of stock in 2004,
Doerr, who sits on the board of directors, has sold 1.1 million
shares to collect $423.2 million.]
(By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, 3-26-2007)
Federal judge dismisses suit attacking Google's search rankings
[A lawsuit by Kinderstart.com was dismissed alleging that Google
abused its position as the Internet's leading search engine
by wrongfully banishing dozens of Web sites from its index.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-23-2007)
Google offers new way to buy Internet ads
[Instead of paying for each click, a small group of advertisers will
experiment with paying each time a person takes a specific action
on their Web site, such as filling out a form or buying a product.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-21-2007)
Google adds more pizzaz to Web site with decorative themes
[Sprucing up its famously plain Web site, Google Inc. is offering
a new option that plants its Internet search box in panoramic
settings that change with the time of day and the outside weather.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-19-2007)
Viacom vs. Google: Test of key online law
[The copyright lawsuit filed Tuesday by Viacom against Google and
its YouTube subsidiary could end up rewriting one of the key laws
of the Internet age: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-14-2007)
Microsoft criticizes Google's use of books
[Google and Microsoft are both scanning libraries' worth of books, then
making the tomes searchable on the Web, but the two companies take different
approaches. Microsoft is scanning works no longer covered by copyright law,
plus newer titles publishers give Microsoft explicit permission to use.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-7-2007)
Google wins key ruling in patent dispute over Earth software
[U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Massachusetts decided
that Google Earth doesn't infringe on a patent issued to
Skyline Software Systems Inc. in 2002.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-7-2007)
Google CEO: Old and new media remain divided over online video
[Eric Schmidt said the Internet giant continues to pursue deals that will
let it show copyrighted videos on YouTube, but suggested old and new media
remain far apart in how they view the emerging business of online video.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-6-2007)
Report: Google to open R&D center in Singapore
[Google Inc. plans to open a research and development
center in Singapore, its first in Southeast Asia.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-27-2007)
Google picks up in-game ad firm [Google has acquired San Francisco
in-game advertising company AdScape Media, paying $23 million for the
year-old start-up. The potential deal could fuel speculation that
Google is building a virtual world game, much like Linden Labs'
Second Life, using its Google Earth product as a backbone.]
(By Ryan Blitstein and Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, 2-17-2007)
Users debate meaning of Google Valentine logo
[For nearly a year, Google employees aided a Missouri-based company
that provided software and tech support to people who downloaded
pirated software and movies. Sample and Drury shut down their business
in October 2005 after they were sued by the studios. In total, the men
estimated, they sold more than 30,000 memberships and took in about
$1.1 million, virtually all, they said, from Google searches.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 2-15-2007)
Google widens doors to Gmail [Google's free e-mail service
will shed the final remnants of its invitation-only restrictions,
extending the reach of an increasingly popular product that has emerged
as a vital cog in the online search leader's expansion efforts.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-14-2007)
Local officials defend Google incentives deal
[Some observers have criticized the $260 million in incentives
used to lure Google, Inc. to Caldwell County. But on Tuesday,
local leaders said most in their communities support the deal.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-14-2007)
Princeton joins Google's book-scanning project
[About 1 million books in Princeton University's collection will be
made available online through Google Inc.'s book-scanning project.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-5-2007)
Galloping Google nearly triples Q4 earnings
[Google stock price dipped after announcing it earned $1.03 billion,
or $3.29 per share, during the final three months of 2006, compared
with net income of $372.2 million, or $1.22 per share in 2005.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-31-2007)
Google plans data center in N.C. worth up to $600 million
[Google plans to build in Lenoir, a city of 60,000 about 60 miles
northwest of Charlotte. The average annual salary at the data center
is expected to be $48,300, about $20,000 more than the average salary
in Caldwell County. The "server farm" could eventually employ 210 people
in a region hit hard by layoffs in the furniture & textile industries.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-19-2007)
Best place to work: Google [Fortune Magazine Knocks Genetech to No. 2]
[Working for Google has famously proved an enriching experience for many,
given its rising stock value. But the 10th annual rankings are based on
a combination of factors: two-thirds weight is given to responses on a
57-question survey of 400 randomly selected employees at each company by
Great Place To Work Institute, a San Francisco research & consulting group]
(By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, 1-8-2007)
Amazon pushes an answer service after Google drops out
[Amazon is trying to beef up its user-driven research site, just weeks
after Google abandoned its 4-year-old effort. Like leader Yahoo Answers,
Amazon's Askville is free, and participants can earn points based on
the quality of answers they provide.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-3-2007)
Google, Apple, Yahoo boost valley market in real estate
[In 2006, Google gobbled up yet another portion of land and buildings
in Mountain View's Shoreline Technology Park for $319 million; Apple
announced plans to buy 50 acres in Cupertino for more than $160 million;
and Yahoo bought 46 acres in Santa Clara for about $50 million.]
(By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, 1-2-2007)
Google to let employees sell options [Starting next spring,
Googlers who have vested options will be able to sell them
through an online site to institutional investors.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 11-28-2006)
Google to abandon answer service in a win for Yahoo
[Google doesn't have all the answers— a fact underscored by the Internet
search leader's decision to abandon a 4-year-old service that hired researchers
to field questions on everything from school homework to sports trivia.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-29-2006)
Google Checkout rings up gripes [Problems beset payment service.
As Google launches a major campaign to pay holiday shoppers to use its
online payment service, Google Checkout users are warning: "Buyer beware."]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 11-28-2006)
Google reserves $200 million from YouTube deal for copyright issues
[Google has set aside more than $200 million in its just-completed takeover
of YouTube Inc. as a financial cushion to cover losses or possible legal bills
for the frequent copyright violations on YouTube's video-sharing site.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-14-2006)
Google, Yahoo ask SEC to review higher fees for market data
[Google, Yahoo, and other Internet companies are asking the SEC
to review fees that U.S. stock exchanges charge for market data,
challenging a major source of income at the exchanges.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-13-2006)
Google buys wiki maker [Google acquires JotSpot, a Palo Alto
company that makes Web-site pages called wikis. The purchase is
further evidence of one of the Internet search giant's emerging
strategies: helping people share information and media online.]
(By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 11-1-2006)
Amazon won't give book-search details to Google
[Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book
search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it needs them to fight copyright
infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-24-2006)
Google unveils tools for search engines
[Hoping to leave an even bigger imprint on the Internet,
Google Inc. is opening up its vast online index so other
Web sites can build their own specialty search engines.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 10-23-2006)
Google profits sky high [Google's 3rd-quarter profits nearly doubled
as revenues rose 70%, powered by a continued surge in online advertising.
This contrasted with the downbeat performance of Yahoo, Google's
chief rival in Internet advertising, whose profits had declined 38%]
(By Elise Ackerman and Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 10-20-2006)
Google stock climbs to 9-month high after Q3 blowout
[Shares climbed as high as $460.10 before falling back to close at $459.67,
an increase of $33.61, or 7.9%. The run-up created more than $10 billion
in shareholder wealth and left Google's market value at $143 billion after
8 years in business. By comparison, 67-year-old Hewlett-Packard Co.—
the world's largest technology company— has a market value of $108 billion.
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-20-2006)
Search sovereign's newest beta: Google Offshore Bank Account
[Start the steroid investigation; Google's knocked the cover off
the ball again. After market close Thursday, the company reported another
blowout quarter posting profits that nearly doubled from a year ago.]
(Posted by John Paczkowski, SiliconValley.com, 10-20-2006)
Google's Q3 profit nearly doubles, soars past estimates
[Google earned $733.4 million, or $2.36 per share, for the 3 months
ended in September. That compared with net income of $381.2 million,
or $1.32 per share, at the same time last year. Revenue for the period
totaled $2.69 billion, a 70% increase from $1.58 billion last year.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-19-2006)
Google, YouTube celebrate deal with a round of Coke and Mentos
[The happiest people in the deal aside from Hurley and Chen are
the folks at Sequoia Capital, the VC outfit that backed them and
and is looking at better than a 40x return on a year-old investment.]
(Posted by John Murrell, SiliconValley.com, 10-10-2006)
Google eclipses rivals once again with YouTube acquisition
[Google's lightning-quick acquisition of online video pioneer YouTube
once again demonstrated the Internet search leader's penchant for pouncing
on golden opportunities that leave its rivals scrambling to catch up.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-10-2006)
Copyright key to Google-YouTube deal [Google's deal to buy YouTube
for $1.65 billion, is an enormous bet on the future of the online video
revolution and a gamble that the search engine giant can solve one
of the trickiest aspects of media on the Web: copyright issues.]
(By Elise Ackerman and Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2006)
YouTube: another valley garage-to-riches story [Monday's purchase of YouTube
turns the popular video-sharing site's two co-founders, Chad Hurley, 29, and
Steve Chen, 27, into the latest Silicon Valley superstars, and both stand
to realize tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from the deal.]
(By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2006)
Report: Google near deal for YouTube [The rumored $1.65 billion
marriage between tech giant Google and video-sharing upstart YouTube
might be announced as early as today.]
(By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2006)
Google plans to set up R&D center in South Korea ["Now we will have the
chances to experience and learn Google's advanced technology. and know-how," said
Commerce Minister Chung Sye-kyun. "We hope Korea will become a global R&D hub."]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-9-2006)
Google continues to plumb new advertising opportunities [Google has accelerated
its efforts to sell advertising for magazines and newspapers while continuing to gear
up for potentially lucrative opportunities in broadcasting and mobile devices.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-9-2006)
Go to UC for free, on Google Video [In a new deal with Google Video,
the University of California-Berkeley is sharing with the public, via the
Internet, dozens of videotaped seminars, speeches, special events and even
entire courses taught by some of the campus' leading professors.]
(By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, 9-28-2006)
Google appeals Brazil judge's order rather than turn over data
[Google Inc. appealed on Thursday a federal judge's order to turn over
information on users of the company's Orkut social-networking service.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-28-2006)
Google to publishers: Don't bite the hand that feeds you
[Google blog by David Eun, VP for content partnerships, says Google is guided
by three principles when it comes to content: "1. We respect copyright;
2. We let owners choose whether we index their content in our products;
3. We try to bring benefit back to content owners by partnering with them."]
(Blogpost by John Murrell, SiliconValley.com, 9-27-2006)
Google gives Belgian sites temporary exemption from minimalist design standard
[Google finally complied with an order to post on its Belgian home and news
pages the full text of a ruling barring its use of content from the country's
French- and German-language newspapers.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-25-2006)
Belgian court rejects Google's appeal against publishing judgment
[Google lost an appeal Friday of a Belgian court's requirement that the Internet
search company publish on its home page the ruling in a recent case it lost.]
(By AOIFE WHITE, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 9-22-2006)
Belgian court rules in favor of newspapers in case against Google
[A Belgian court has ordered Google Inc. to stop publishing content from Belgian
newspapers without permission or payment of fees, a Belgian press association said.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-18-2006)
Valleywide WiFi would keep area on cutting edge, but project faces hurdles
[Wireless Silicon Valley (WSV) picked Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a team created
by IBM, Cisco Systems, a small wireless operator named Azulstar and a non-profit
named SeaKay. MetroFi, a Mountain View start-up, is already offering free muni WiFi
in Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and downtown San Jose. Google turned on a free
WiFi network covering Mountain View in August. EarthLink has announced plans for a
network in Milpitas, and is also building a WiFi network with Google in San Francisco.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 9-11-2006)
Factoring in the Human Element [How can a search engine beat Google?
[Microsoft & Yahoo have one approach: Invest hundreds of millions of dollars
in computer technology and collect personal data by the terabyte. Scott Jones
has another: Tap into the genius of the slacker underground. Jones launched
the search engine ChaCha early this week. It was quickly overwhelmed.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 9-7-2006)
Google broadens news archive [Starting Tuesday at 9 p.m. PDT, articles published
by news organizations, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time
and the Washington Post, will be available in the archive of Google News.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 9-6-2006)
Tool generates fake searches for privacy [TrackMeNot periodically sends fake,
innocuous queries to search engines, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN, and AOL.
This makes it harder for someone to glean your actual search habits by
reviewing the companies' logs that contain your queries.]
(By ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 9-1-2006)
Executive: Google growth driven by users
[Producers have looked with particular alarm at the rapid rise of user-generated
video. Stunts, spoofs and other clips posted on video-sharing sites like YouTube Inc.
or Google Video can attract millions of viewers who might otherwise be watching TV.]
(By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-30-2006)
Google, eBay forge alliance [eBay announced it would grant Google
exclusive rights to sell text-based ads on eBay's non-U.S. Web sites.
The multiyear advertising agreement would also include an experiment
in "click-to-call" advertising using Google Talk and eBay's Skype.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-29-2006)
Google to allow free downloads of books
[Google plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge
classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-29-2006)
Google CEO to join Apple Computer board
[Apple Computer named Google's CEO Eric Schmidt to its board of directors,
creating a high-profile link between two of Silicon Valley's most prized
companies as they try to topple Microsoft as high technology's kingpin.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 8-29-2006)
Google, eBay try to crack service market [Google and eBay announced
an advertising partnership that aims to put buyers in touch with a wider variety
of sellers, such as the neighborhood exterminator, math tutor or roofer.]
(By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press, 8-28-2006)
Google announces hosted apps [Workers will be able to send e-mail
with Gmail, Google's two-year-old Web-based mail service, but messages
will carry their company's domain name. The package also includes Google's
online calendar, instant-messaging service, and Page Creator, a Web page builder.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-27-2006)
Google seeks regulatory exemption for cash hoard [Search-engine giant Google Inc.
has piled up so much cash that it is in danger of being mistaken for an investment fund.
Google wants to diversify its investment strategy but doesn't want to be regulated
as a mutual fund. It has asked the SEC to exempt it from regulations that can apply
to a company with a lot of marketable securities on its balance sheet.]
(SiliconValley.com, 8-25-2006)
Google launches free WiFi in Mountain View [After months of beta testing
and anticipation, the Internet giant plans to open up its free, wireless
Internet network to Mountain View's 72,000 residents. The network covers
about 90% of the city's 12 square miles and offers maximum data-transfer
speeds of up to 1 megabit per second— slightly slower than DSL.]
(By Sarah Jane Tribble, San Jose Mercury News, 8-16-2006)
Google's home town to get Web access free
[Powered by 380 radio antennae, the Mountain View network is supposed to surf the Web
at speeds comparable to the Internet connections delivered by digital subscriber,
or DSL lines. It will be slightly slower than a high-speed cable connection.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 8-15-2006)
Google offers local coupons [Google has a deal to distribute online coupons
sold by Valpak, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises and one of the top providers
of direct-mail advertising services in the United States. Customers can print
out the coupons at home and then redeem them at a local business.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-15-2006)
Google removes text link to Froogle
[Google removed a text link to its comparison-shopping site, Froogle,
and replaced it with one pointing to Google Video, where amateur spoofs
uploaded by users mingle with episodes of Dave Chappelle's show.]
(By JESSICA MINTZ, Associated Press, 8-14-2006)
Google's gift [Google is about to give its hometown a wonderful gift:
a municipal wireless network covering the entire city of Mountain View,
with free Internet access for both residents and visitors. But Google will not
provide live human tech support, which is often crucial for first-time users.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-14-2006)
Google to keep storing search requests
[Google keeps its users' search requests as part of its efforts to better understand
what specific people are looking for on the Internet. But by storing the search requests,
Google and its competitors are creating an opportunity for the material to be mistakenly
released or stolen, according to privacy advocates.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 8-11-2006)
Disclosure fight over Google jet settled
[Google's famous co-founders have decided not to press the accusation that an
Oklahoma aircraft designer violated a court order for allegedly disclosing details
about a Boeing 767 that he was refurbishing on their behalf to newspaper reporters.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-11-2006)
UC books on Google: a global resource [A proposed deal between Google
and the University of California to convert library books into searchable
online files could turn UC's 34 million volumes into a global resource.]
(By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, 8-4-2006)
Google piles on profits [Google more than doubled its quarterly profit
thanks to a continued outpouring of online advertising that boosted revenue
77% from a year ago. 99% of Google's revenue came from online advertising.
In comparison, Yahoo reported advertising revenue of $1.38 billion, up 27%.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 7-21-2006)
Google, Yahoo bolster sites for photo sharing
[Google launched Web Albums, an updated version of its Picasa photo-sharing software
the company acquired in 2004. For now, Web Albums is offered on an invitation-only
basis while the Mountain View search engine giant works out any potential kinks.
Yahoo is giving one of its two photo-sharing sites, Yahoo Photos, a face lift, too.]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 6-15-2006)
Google to buy its headquarters for $319 million
[Google Inc. is buying its Silicon Valley headquarters for $319 million
in a deal covering the Internet search leader's nerve center—
a cluster of buildings revered in high-tech circles as the "Googleplex."]
(SiliconValley.com, 6-14-2006)
Google upgrades mapping tools
[Google released the latest upgrades
to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest successes outside
the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traffic.
The improvements include a major expansion of the satellite imagery
included in Google's three-dimensional software for touring Earth.]
(SiliconValley.com, 6-13-2006)
Google to take on eBay [Google is expected to roll out an online payment
system at the end of the month that will directly compete with eBay's PayPal.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 6-10-2006)
Brin says Google compromised principles
[Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant Internet company has
compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said
Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.]
(TED BRIDIS, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 6-6-2006)
Google to launch online spreadsheet [Google Spreadsheets, a free program
that requires no downloads and allows people to share or work on the same
document online, won't offer all of the bells and whistles that Microsoft's
Excel program offers. People will be able to open Excel documents
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