Google: Technology is Making Science Fiction a Reality

"Schmidt said the introduction of books available online, Internet translation of languages and voice recognition for computers all happened much faster than anyone envisioned and that technological research into even more previously unheard of advances is progressing at a fast clip."

Report: Facebook, Google Overtake Yahoo In Display Ad Market Share

"Yahoo’s once dominant position with display advertising is now officially over. Research firm eMarketer released figures Wednesday showing that both Facebook and Google surpassed Yahoo last year in display-ad revenue, with $1.73 billion and $1.71 billion, respectively."

Google's iPhone Tracking

"The web giant and other ad companies bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices and computers – tracking the online habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked."

Political Ads Go Digital and Social

"Republican presidential candidates are turning to the Internet, spending million of dollars on political ads with Google, Facebook and Twitter, analysts say."

The Great Tech War Of 2012

Subtitle: "Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon battle for the future of the innovation economy."

Google Targets Apple With Motorola Buy

"Setting its sights on rival Apple, Google announced its biggest deal ever, a $12.5 billion cash acquisition of mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility."

Google Gets 1 Billion 'Unique' Visitors

"The market research firm ComScore says that with its search page, Gmail and YouTube, this is the first time any web company's user base has hit 10 digits. Actually, the number was 1 billion, 9 million, 699 thousand."

Google Launches Tool for Online Reputation Management

"The tool, 'Me on the Web,' is now included on the Google dashboard in between account information and analytics. It is not intended to be another privacy setting."

Google Announces Host of Search Improvements

"Google held a special search event in San Francisco this morning to discuss several improvements to its Web and mobile search products."

Google Finds Ways to Search Faster and Without Typing

"Google announced ways to search by voice or image and said it would save two to five seconds loading Web pages."

Google Ends Project to Digitize Newspaper Archives

"?Google is stopping the scanners on its ambitious project to build an archive of the world’s newspapers."

Google's Stealth Multi-Billion-Dollar Business

"Google became a $30 billion company on the back of search advertising -- but the company thinks its other multi-billion-dollar advertising business will be its growth engine of the future. That other business is "display" advertising, which includes banner ads, video ads and in-app mobile ads."

Apple Usurps Google as World's Most Valuable Brand

"Apple has overtaken Google as the world's most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the Internet search leader, according to a new study by global brands agency Millward Brown."

Google Named Most Reputable Company in U.S.

"Google has topped a list of the most reputable companies in the U.S., according to a Harris Interactive poll."

AI Project Funded by Google Wants to Teach Computers Regret

"Computer researchers at Tel Aviv University are working on a project funded by Google that aims to teach computers how to minimize 'regret' or, in other words, to learn from their decisions and make better ones next time."

How Google is Teaching Computers to See

"Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser. Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has plenty more hurdles to clear."

Google, Eyeing Facebook, Adds Social Search Button

"Google Inc will allow people to personally endorse search results and Web pages, an important step in its efforts to add social networking capabilities to its products amid increasing competition from Facebook."

Say Hello to Google's Online Magazine

"Google has quietly launched its own full-length online magazine, a quarterly publication whose aim is to create a 'breathing space in a busy world.'"

Google's People Finder for Japan Crisis

"Google famously gives its engineers '20% time,' allowing them one day a week to work on side projects that interest them. That arrangement launched one of the most critical online tools in the Japanese relief effort: Google's Person Finder, which allows people to search for and post information about missing loved ones."

Google Enters the E-Book Fray. What Does It Mean?

"When one of the country's biggest technology companies--a company that has already digitized more than 15 million volumes as part of a mission to make humanity's literary treasures available to all--decides to sell e-books, it's easy to see the move as a defining moment. . ."