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Book Review: The Google Way to be Calmer, Happier and a Better Listener

Steve Kettmann | Posted 05.27.2012

Steve Kettmann

Longtime Google engineer Chade-Meng Tan's new book Search Inside Yourself, with the subtitle, "The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (And World Peace)," is based on a program of the same name the author helped implement at Google.

Online Mortgage Scams Face Increased Government Crackdown

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 01.21.2012

SAN FRANCISCO — A criminal investigation into mortgage swindlers has expanded beyond deceptive advertising on Google's Internet search engine to...

The Verdict On Google's Redesign

Ty Fujimura | Posted 09.10.2011

Ty Fujimura

Google produces exceptional interfaces, but their aesthetic is famously unhip. It's not surprising: They're an engineering-first company that took 7 y...

China's State News Agency Launches 'Sanitized' Search Engine

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — China's main government news agency launched an Internet search site Tuesday, giving its own sanitized view of the Web following Googl...

Nate C. Hindman

Qwiki Founder: How I Launched A Talking Search Engine -- And Why You Should Avoid VCs

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 08.08.2011

The tech world has been buzzing ever since judges at TechCrunch Disrupt named Qwiki 2010's most disruptive company. Qwiki's on-stage demonstration ...

New Search Engine Launches

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE: Read our Q&A with Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta. -- There's a new search engine in town. The newly-launched Blekko is hoping to harness the hum...

Bing On iPhone: Apple, Microsoft In Talks To Make Bing iPhone Search Default

BusinessWeek | Peter Burrows and Cliff Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Apple (AAPL) is in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) to replace Google (GOOG) as the default search engine on its iPhone, according to two people familiar w...

Search-Engine Keywords Violate Privacy Laws, Suit Claims

AP | DINESH RAMDE | Posted 05.25.2011

MILWAUKEE — A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to bo...

Microsoft, News Corp Have Talked About De-Indexing From Google

Financial Times | Matthe Garrahan, Richard Waters, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google...

Bing Often Better Than Google

nytimes.com | DAVID POGUE | Posted 05.25.2011

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it."...

Cuil: The Latest, Baddest AntiGoogle Looks Like A Magazine

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011

SAN FRANCISCO — Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to...