Todd R. Weiss

Google wants users to know how sesarch actually happens, from the moment they type a query into the Search box on Google.com until the instant the results appear, ready for curious users to find just the information they are pursuing. That’s the idea behind a new Website, How Search Works, created by the search giant […]

A Google Street View team is in Japan for the two-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, taking stark photographs of a city about 12 miles from the heavily damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, which spread its radiation across a wide area. The photography project is being conducted in Namie, Japan, a city […]

Google’s behind-the-scenes actions allegedly were the motivating force behind the European Union’s $732 million fine of Microsoft March 6. The European Commission—the EU’s antitrust arm—levied the fine against Microsoft for failing to offer a choice of Web browsers to early users of its Windows 7 computer operating system, which the company must do as part […]

Twitter’s Android and iOS apps have received improvements to make them easier to use and quicker at finding content on the popular social media platform. The updates to search and Web browsing are also being added to Twitter’s mobile.twitter.com site, according to a March 6 post by software engineer Nick Takayama on the Twitter Blog. […]

Google has been testing a same-day delivery service in San Francisco for local retailers since February, a move that could allow the company to expand more into the turf of online retailer Amazon.com. “Google Shopping Express helps local retail stores sell products online and have the items delivered to shoppers the same day,” according to […]

Google has unveiled the first big update of its Google Maps for iPhone app, adding several new features to the stand-alone mapping app that Google introduced last December to work with Apple’s latest iOS 6 mobile operating system. “Today, we’re releasing an update for Google Maps for iPhone with new search icons that make finding […]

Google’s Chrome browser just got some new speed, search and sharing updates in the latest versions released for Android and iOS users, bringing improved performance to the smaller screens of mobile devices. The new Android version of the Chrome browser brings faster search and scrolling performance due to the inclusion of the latest V8 JavaScript […]

Google’s almost two-year push to require users of its online services to reveal their real names has an unlikely critic: Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist, who is also credited as the “Father of the Internet.” Cerf said that by forcing people to use their real names, it can hurt social media users in nations […]

Groupon may have fired its founder and CEO last week as it seeks to fix its problems, but in the big scheme of things, the company is still searching to find its way in a marketplace that’s becoming ever more crowded with sellers of online deals for consumers. Just a little more than two years […]

Google has stashed away $48 billion in cash to give it free rein and lots of financial options in the marketplace should tantalizing acquisition targets show up in its cross hairs. That’s what Google CFO Patrick Pichette recently told a crowd at a technology conference held by Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, according to a […]

The Google Maps API is always being used in new ways by clever developers, and a sampling of recent examples offers visitors everything from mapping out their next road trip to finding fast food and public art on the run. Plan Your Next Road Trip Online When you find it’s time to hit the road […]

Google has just released the new Zopfli Compression Algorithm, an open-source general-purpose data compression library that can make files 3 to 8 percent smaller than those run through the existing zlib library. The creation and release of Zopfli, which gets its name from a traditional Swiss braided bread recipe (Zopf), was announced in a Feb. […]