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Google House Cleaning Efforts Continue

Google's year-long project to cut out little-used services so the company can focus on its most popular offerings to customers continues with a new...

Google Maps First: Panoramic Underwater Images of World’s Reefs

For the first time, Google Maps is adding underwater panoramic images of spectacular reefs around the world to the extensive and growing library of...

Farewell, Google Watch

This is my final post on Google Watch. Today, I've moved on to the next leg of my career at the Wall Street Journal,...

Google Play Geared to Boost Google’s Digital Content Services

The Google-watching world has been abuzz since yesterday about Google Play.No, it's not a new streaming music service from the search giant, though you'd...

Google Assistant, Majel Rumor Par for the Course

Far be it for me to throw cold water on the prospect of exciting new software from Google, but the Google-is-building-a-Siri-rival meme is wearing...

Chrome Enables Browsing for U.S. State Department

Google's Chrome browser adoption can be counted in the 200-plus million download range, but it helps to have big organizations embrace the browser.This is...

Why Google’s Display Ad March Could Grind to a Halt

"Do Not Track" presents some interesting obstacles for Internet giants that rely on Web advertising, with Google poised to be significantly impacted in the...

Android Smartphone Costs Dropping Big Time, Says Schmidt

Much of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's keynote discussion at Mobile World Congress Feb. 28 concerned very forward-looking, sci-fi-type stuff.Sample: People will deploy robots...

Google+ a Ghost Town of User Engagement?

Google CEO Larry Page said during his last earnings conference call that Google+ has more than 90 million users. He declined to reveal the...

Google, Evil and the Binary Curse

The whole "Is Google Evil?" meme has grown to be a ridiculous, farcical debate, prone to solemn punditry by some of the most authoritative...