Google-YouTube-Viacom decision
The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom.
That data includes every YouTube username, the associated IP address and the videos that user has watched on YouTube. Google will also be required to hand over copies of [...]
Searchable Flash Content
Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on the popular Flash video format.
Adobe Systems, owner of Flash, has released a customised version of the Flash Player software that will allow Google (and other search engines) to see certain elements of Web pages embedded with Flash content in the same [...]
Google Moving In With Nasa
Google has signed a deal to build a series of research and development offices at a Nasa lab in Silicon Valley.
The search giant will lease 1.2 million square feet of office space at Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Google’s home town of Mountain View, California.
The 40-year lease will include a US$3.2 million annual payment from [...]
Google Exposes Search Algorithm Secrets
Google has pledged to adopt a more open approach with the formula for its hitherto fiercely guarded search algorithms.
Udi Manber, Google’s vice president of engineering, made the announcement on a corporate blog as part of a “renewed effort” to open up the company’s secrets.
Manber claimed that competition and attempts to prevent abuse have been the [...]
Google Could Be Interested In Going Geothermal
Search engine giant Google could be interested in going geothermal, according to Israeli newspaper reports.
Google is apparently in discussions with an Israeli firm called Ormat Technologies, which already has a geothermal plant set up in the Nevada desert in the USA.
Geothermal energy, which harnesses energy generated by heat under the Earth’s surface, from the atmosphere [...]
Google Learns 10 New Languages
Google has added capabilities for 10 new languages to its Google Translate service.
The addition of Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish brings the total number of languages to 23.
The service now has the option to translate text and web pages, as well as perform cross-language searches between any two languages [...]
Google Launches Local Hosted Security Service
Google has launched a hosted security service for enterprise customers in Australia.
The hosted service, called “Google Web Security for Enterprise”, protects corporate Web and e-mail users from viruses, spyware, malicious Web sites, and offers hosted e-mail archiving services.
The service offers a choice of cheap security features. The option of Google Message Filtering (e-mail filtering) is [...]
Google Security Tool Goes Beyond the Network
Google has expanded its web-based security application which allows administrators to set policies that limit user access to sites and monitor browsing habits.
Google Web Security for Enterprises, which also provides malware protection, is based on software acquired by Google when it purchased Postini last year for $625m.
Previously, using Google Web Security for Enterprises outside a [...]
Possible Ad Partnership Between Google and Yahoo
Senior Google executives have publicly expressed interest in a potential advertising partnership with search engine rival Yahoo.
The comments from chief executive Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin follow a two-week shared advertising trial which many analysts saw as an attempt to derail Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo.
The two-week test saw Google supplying selective advertisements served to [...]
Phishers Target Google AdWords Users
Security experts at Trend Micro have warned of a Google AdWords phishing attack designed to steal sensitive information.
Victims of the scam receive an email notification informing them that their last AdWords payment has not been successful and asking them to update their payment information.
The link displayed in the email body appears to be legitimate, but [...]
Google Q1 Profit Soars to US$1.31 Billion
Google’s report on the first quarter of 2008 shows an unexpectedly strong start to the year for the search giant.
The company logged US$1.31 billion in profit between January and March on total income of US$5.19 billion.
The US$5.19 billion in revenues marks a 42 percent increase from the first quarter of 2007, and a seven percent [...]
Google trains indexing bots to fill HTML forms
Google’s ever active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.
In a blog post Friday, Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy of Google’s crawling and indexing team said the company has begun an experiment in which its indexing software experimentally enters text in [...]
Google Tackles Microsoft with Office
By taking its most emphatic step so far towards a future in which web services supplant most of today’s software, Google last week sent its clearest signal yet to Silicon Valley and Wall Street about where it is heading.
The test version of Google App Engine allows third parties to develop and deploy web applications that [...]
Google Docs Goes Offline
Google has moved one step deeper into Microsoft territory by enabling users of its Google Docs online service to edit documents offline. It’s also dipping its corporate toes in Telstra BigPond waters.
Google Docs is a word processing tool that you access online, via a web browser.
It’s part of Google’s free online suite of office [...]
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