Google News

Google To Make Merchants Pay For A Spot On Shopping Search Results

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.31.2012

Looks like Google's free shopping search results won't be free much longer. In a May 31 post on its Google Commerce blog, the company announced tha...

Google Dictionary

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 05.30.2012

The Google dictionary is no mere picture book, even though it's composed entirely of photos from Google image search. The 1,240-page printed volume...

Getting the News -- Chris Dixon

Michael_Young | Posted 04.24.2012

Michael_Young

This week we spoke to Chris Dixon, co-founder of Hunch. We thought we'd ask Chris what his news routine was -- when you're on the cutting edge of tech, information is vital.

Google Tweaks Its Algorithm

AP | Posted 11.25.2011

By Eric Carvin, The Associated Press BOSTON -- Google News, which has long relied on automation to deliver news content from countless providers, h...

Google News: Humans Beat Robots, at Last!

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 10.14.2011

Steve Rosenbaum

After almost a decade, Google is somewhat sheepishly admitting that humans are, well, useful after all.

Google Turns News Reading Into A Game

Posted 09.13.2011

Bored with the standard news reading experience? Google News is now giving out news topic badges to their readers based on reading activity. Anno...

Google To Open Research Institute

AP | Posted 09.10.2011

BERLIN -- Berlin's oldest university says it is partnering with Google and three German institutions to start a research institute. Humboldt Universi...

Live From Cannes: The Future According To Eric Schmidt

Dylan Byers | Posted 08.23.2011

Dylan Byers

Google chairman talks of the next trillion-dollar industry.

New Features For Google News

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.16.2011

Google News: now a little easier to navigate. The search giant's aggregate news product has added a new feature to its Top Stories page that collap...

How Yahoo Can Save Itself

Danny Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Wong

Yahoo may just yet redeem itself with its latest search engine update, Search Direct. This advancement in the usability of search engines is incredible.

Groupon.com and Google

Michael Tasner | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Tasner

My concern is that Groupon may have made a mistake not taking the money now.

Pakistan Floods: They Are Not Over Yet

Saad Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

Saad Khan

Compassion for Pakistan is still needed because the first phase of flooding is not over. The river floods are devastating but slow moving.

Google News and the Arrogance of Cyber-Power

Richard H. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard H. Smith

Every morning my first Internet destination has been Google News. Until this week -- when Google News rolled out what detractors have called its "New Coke," which, to my mind, presents a technical nightmare and an aesthetic atrocity.

Google Allowing Users To Customize Their News

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is giving its users the chance to tailor the news to fit their interests. As part of a new look unveiled Wednesday,...

Google News Gets Its First Human Editors Ever

Business Insider | Posted 05.25.2011

Google News is experimenting with human news curation. Editors from a "small set" of partner news organizations started curating Google News yesterda...

Google Sticks to Its Guns: But What Does China Really Want?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Wolff

If you were China, or any other market large enough to be dreaming of your historic destiny, what would you do about Google?

Google China News: LIVE UPDATES

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

Google announced yesterday that it would stop censoring China search results and has effectively shut down its mainland China search site, rerouting u...

Google China News: TIMELINE Of Events (2002 To 2010)

Huffington Post | Craig Kanalley | Posted 05.25.2011

Google China has been in the news due to its rocky relationship with China for some time, and today those issues have culminated into a major move. ...

Con Games: Singleton's ShamWow Strategy

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Conniff

How can a company like Affiliated Media that came up so short "participate in the consolidation and re-invention of the newspaper industry"?

Google Swiss Privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.25.2011

GENEVA — Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object – Switzerland's strict tradition...

Google News Drops AP

CNNMoney.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Google News has stopped hosting new articles from the Associated Press the search giant confirmed Monday, in a sign that contract negotiations between...

Rupert Murdoch Plans To Block More Than Just Google

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Matthew Filipowicz

In an exclusive interview, Rupert Murdoch explains that Google is only the beginning of News Corp.'s plans to further isolate themselves. Take a look.

Google's 'First Click Free' Will Allow Newspapers To Limit Access To Stories

AP | JANE WARDELL and ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — In a move that could help improve relations between Google Inc. and the media industry, the Internet search company is offering publish...

Google China History: TIMELINE Of Google's Biggest China Controversies (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Google threatening to leave China earlier this week came as a surprise to some, but the relationship between the two has a history of issues. The l...

World Association of Newspapers' President Slams Aggregators and Reveals Merger With IFRA

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 05.25.2011

Faisal J. Abbas

Even if the recession is over, what are newspapers going to do with the ever growing competition coming from their online counterparts?