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At Google, Things Do Go Wrong

Google doesn't often mention its mistakes. So it was surprising to hear at Analyst Day of a Google feature that doesn't appear to be...

Oracle Tries to Lift the Enterprise Search Malaise

Major technology stars before Oracle have tried to sell enterprise search products. But all the deep pockets and business savvy haven't done much to...

Pushing the Google Too Far

That was one humble Google at its annual Analyst Day exercise today.Humble, sober and, more tellingly, missing Google's usual swagger.The 4-hour event amounted to...

From The Trenches: Analyst Day 2006

Google's Eric Schmidt opens the day vowing to run the company based on the founding principles. "Principles matter, it's part of what will be...

Google’s New Mini Deals

(UPDATED March 2) Google's introduced a more affordable Mini search appliance for enterprises. The latest hardware has the capacity to search 50,000 documents, and...

A Memex Machine Emerges From The 1940s

Here come Trexy.com, another new search feature to borrow from Dr. Vannevar Bush's visionary1945 Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think". What Bush proposed,...

And Then The Google Crumbled

Google's stock price dropped as much as seven percent in recent trading after its chief financial officer told investors that Google's growth is sure...

The Google Grumbles

Nik Cubrilovic has supposedly got Google grumbling. He found some items on Google Base, Google's experimental online marketplace, that could be purchasd with a...

Dances With Google

Part IGOOGLE WATCH: What's Project X?GOOGLE: "We're always exploring opportunities to expand our offerings, but don't have anything to announce at this time."GOOGLE WATCH:...

Search Closes in on Email

Some updates on search from Greg Sterling, The Kelsey Group.Though email still the most popular daily online activity, search is closing in...As of last...