Shhh: Google quietly fails at something (else)

Jul 19, 2010
Powerful as it may be, and as much as it continues to absorb, amoeba-like, the collected knowledge of the world, Google has its fair share of...

Microsoft Office 2010 sales results "a bit disappointing"

Jul 14, 2010
This according to a report by research group NPD. It's kind of a mixed bag report, really, nothing apocalyptic for MSFT. But it does get at a...

Now everyone can build Android apps

Jul 12, 2010
Google rolls out a free software program called Google App Inventor for Android today that lets anyone create apps for the Android platform. It...

YouTube brings Leanback forward

Jul 8, 2010
Google introduced a new option on YouTube that's kind of a mashup of YouTube, Facebook, and Pandora. It's called Leanback and it provides a full...

China threatens to shut down Google, Google caves

Jun 29, 2010
Google says it's committed to not censoring its search results. China is very much committed to censorship. So it's a stalemate that affects the...

Facebook takes on search. A way bigger story than you might realize.

Jun 25, 2010
The seemingly innocuous Like button recently spread from Facebook to sites all over the web as part of Facebook's Open Graph program. You read...

For public good, not for profit.

Google introduces new feature: editorial judgment

Jun 11, 2010
This is one of those stories that might be a little more surprising than it first appears. Google is running an experiment on its Google News site,...

Search engine popularity metrics range from opaque to meaningless

Jun 11, 2010
I've been trying to make sense of a couple recent articles about the latest information on the popularity of the major search engines. It seems...

Google's home page is all funny looking.

Jun 10, 2010
As promised, Google.com, the big page, the heart of the whole operation, looks different today. The company announced this a while ago. Instead of...