Google has updated its core algorithm that controls the answers we get to queries on its search engine in a bid to make them work better for longer, more complex questions. The update, code-named Hummingbird, is the biggest change to the underpinnings of the world’s leading search engine since early 2010, when Google upgraded its...Read More
Factory workers prepare MOTO X smartphones on the factory floor at the Flextronics factory plant in Fort Worth. It is the only cellphone manufacturing plant in the U.S.(Photo: Michael Mulvey for USA TODAY) Story Highlights While search remains its bread and butter, the company is pursuing futuristic projects Its Motorola subsidiary is making the first...Read More
By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK | Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:02pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday appeared to favor Google Inc’s legal defense of its digital books project, which could imperil efforts by authors seeking to block it. Google, based in Mountain View, California, has scanned more than 20 million...Read More
For this week’s TIME cover story on Google’s “moon shot†projects — including Calico, a new company that will research ways to extend human life — I spent a big chunk of time hanging out at the company’s Googleplex headquarters talking to Googlers, including co-founder and CEO Larry Page. I’d visited Google often in the...Read More
Google CEO Larry Page at the 2013 IO conference. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired Larry Page is on a mission to prolong your life, and the pundits think he’s onto something. Yesterday, when the Google chief exec revealed the startup that will drive his lofty mission, the press coverage was predictably cheerful. But let’s get real. Whatever...Read More
Google CEO Larry Page.(Photo: The Street) Story Highlights Google developing ‘AdID’ to replace third-party cookies Plan designed to give Internet users more privacy, control Advertising industry concerned about Google, Apple power ‘AdID’ would give users ability to limit ad tracking online SAN FRANCISCO — Google, the world’s largest Internet search company, is considering a major...Read More
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, reiterated the tech industry’s call for greater transparency from the US government over surveillance on Friday, but declined to “pass judgment” on American spying operations. Speaking in New York, at an event hosted by the New America Foundation, Schmidt said it was time for a public debate about...Read More
By MARK MAREMONT CONNECT Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have to dig deeper to operate their fleet of private jets, after the U.S. Department of Defense ended a little-known arrangement that for years allowed the tech billionaires to travel on sharply discounted jet fuel bought from the Pentagon. Google founders Larry...Read More
The ruling, which comes at a moment when online privacy is being hotly debated, has its origins in a much-publicized Google initiative, Street View, which tried to map the inhabited world. In addition to photographs, Street View vehicles secretly collected e-mail, passwords, images and other personal information from unencrypted home computer networks. The scooping of...Read More
BRUSSELS | Mon Sep 9, 2013 6:19am EDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google has offered further concessions aimed at ending a three-year investigation into complaints it was blocking competitors and to avert a possible $5 billion fine, the European Commission said on Monday. The new proposal comes two months after the Commission, which is the European...Read More
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