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Firefox Toolbar Gets the Spotlight at Google

For some Google regulars living in California and elsewhere in the United States, the search engine of late has been using some of its...

Google Maps Mashups, the European Version

European Google mashers, rev your engines.It appears Google's finally added driving directions and other street-level information to its Google Maps for Europe. Google Blogoscope...

Google’s Good Enough for Government Work

Google is adding more sales muscle to its Washington, D.C., offices, according to some new job postings that make clear its ambitions to do...

Google’s Cell Phone Sex Problem

Some new research concludes that Google Internet search requests via cell phone are mostly to find porn, and at a rate twice what Google...

In Montreal, Google Tracks the Eyeball

Google plans to release the findings from the first-ever large-scale study of its mobile users' habits, plus eyeball tracking experiences and other Google research...

Google Wins, MSN Loses in March

Nearly one in two Internet searches now takes place using a Google search engine, according to a new report from audience measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings. In...

Google Maps Out Its Identity Crisis

Talk about an identity crisis: Google Local, once known as Google Maps, is changing its name back to Google Maps.This monicker madness all began...

Google Makeover in Progress

Google confirms that it's testing a way to preview and search within the results returned by its very popular search engine.In the past few...

Google: Lots of Revenues, Not a Lot of Chitchat

Google honchos Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt promised they'd be short. And they were.The three top Google execs deliberately truncated their April...

79% Revenue Gain In First Quarter For Google

Google's first quarter financial results are in. They can be found here.One big number to consider: revenues for the quarter fell somewhere in the...