Obamacare’s third open enrollment period started today. And one of the question most on Americans’ minds — at least, the thing they’re searching a lot for on Google — is how to sign up. I asked Google to pull the top 10 Obamacare-related search questions for the past five years, to try and get a...Read More
Google has unveiled an ambitious project to boost Internet access across much of rural Indonesia using 20,000 helium balloons. The California tech giant has partnered with some of Indonesia’s top telecoms companies for its Project Loon initiative that aims to improve connectivity in the Southeast Asian nation of 250 million, especially for those scattered across...Read More
Google doesn’t know who your friends are, who you chat with, or what news you care about. Just like how Facebook doesn’t know what’s in your email, what directions you map, what you web search for, or what’s going on in your Android phone. That’s why the two have huge but very different opportunities when...Read More
Alphabet was established to help Google develop its ideas beyond search into areas as diverse as self-driving cars, medical technology, and high-speed internet connections. But it’s YouTube, still a part of Google prime, that the company is touting as one of its first big successes outside of search. During Alphabet’s first quarterly earnings call yesterday,...Read More
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was previously a Google exec. (GeekWire File Photo) Updated below with Microsoft statement. Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision of its longtime Microsoft search pact that gave Yahoo the ability to use alternative services to power its Internet search and advertising services. The deal between Google...Read More
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A scanner passes over a book March 21, 2008, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where one of hundreds of librarians from all over the world helped Google’s Book Search create digital versions of the 50 million to 100 million books in the world. Google is not violating copyright laws by digitizing books...Read More
Twitter just hired Omid Kordestani, formerly the chief business officer at Google, to be its new executive chairman. The move comes as Twitter looks to refocus and keep expenses down. New permanent CEO Jack Dorsey just announced Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) was laying off 8% of its staff on Tuesday. But based on how much Kordestani...Read More
Ved wrote that he’d been checking the availability of Google domains on the company’s own tracker, as one does, when he discovered that Google.com was open for purchase. Naturally, he bought it. Rather than immediately use the domain to display pictures of butts, as we some might have done, Ved claims he alerted Google’s security team. The transaction...Read More
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