Google's other enterprise-friendly steps throughout 2009 have included Gmail offline functionality and full BlackBerry interoperability
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Google's other enterprise-friendly steps throughout 2009 have included Gmail offline functionality and full BlackBerry interoperability
The search engine's structured results are suggestive of a way that search could evolve in the future, and other search companies such as Google have been rolling out similar products for presenting search results
Tributes pour in for Sergey Brin's mentor, who died tragically on Friday
But what happens when the novelty of the new search contender wears off?
Analytics services and advertisters use Web bugs to track you, and there is very little you can do about it. Jim Rapoza is starting to feel concerned
Google finds itself adding more features to its lineup in the face of increased search competition from companies such as Microsoft, which recently released its own new search engine, Bing
After all the excitement, how does Bing measure up? Jim Rapoza has been using it non-stop since it launched, so he knows
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has knocked Bing while also suggesting that a search partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft could save her company around £366m
Microsoft hopes that Bing will allow it to claim more market share in the competitive search-engine arena, which is dominated by Google
Although Android is open-source, manufacturers will be able to sign distribution deals with Google in order to pre-install their phones with more options such as Google Apps
Despite Google's lead in search-engine market share, Microsoft hopes that a new and improved search experience will translate into a greater piece of the online search pie
Created by the team that brought Google Maps to the world, the search engine giant hopes Wave will cause more than a few ripples on the Internet
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has suggested that she would sell Yahoo's search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive amount of cold, hard cash
With small tweaks,and features that other browsers already have, this is more like Chrome version 1.2, than version 2.0
Users can speak into their device in order to activate a oneSearch query, pulling in results for everything from restaurant addresses to movie times
Google has high hopes that Chrome's unique features will make it a suitable competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer and other browsers on the market
Google plans to expand the Google PowerMeter rollout later in 2009
Microsoft, along with Yahoo, is in fierce competition with Google for market share in the U.S. core search arena
The European Commission has been debating the effectiveness of the protection of personal data in services such as Google Street View
Google has introduced several new features in 2009 to Google Apps and Gmail designed to make those services more robust for the enterprise, in addition to increasing their consumer user base
New knowledge tool understands questions, instead of just searching, according to controversial inventor Stephen Wolfram
The UK must invest in digital infrastructure, and governments must regulate global markets, the UK business secretary told the search giant's business talk-shop
While the outages of services such as Gmail are usually only temporary, the popularity of these Google services often means that any problem instantly becomes news
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has placed his company at the forefront of the energy debate, arguing that green IT can contribute to lowering overall carbon footprints
The Apple iPhone OS will follow behind it, as the second fastest-growing smartphone OS
At least one consumer advocacy group has decided to refute the search engine giant's claims in a particularly high-profile way
Despite the global economic recession, Brin is optimistic about Google's ability to innovate and exploit upcoming IT revolutions such as cloud computing
The chief information officer of BA defended the airline's green efforts - while sniping at "greenwash" from IT vendors
The banking group believes that providing they are deployed in the right way, blade servers are most efficient way to turn energy into computing power
Search technology developed for the FBI is now available for businesses to use