By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc., in a move to squeeze more cash out of its lucrative Web-search engine, is converting its free product-search service into a paid one. Online retailers will now have to bid to display their products on Google’s Shopping site. Currently, retailers include their products for free by providing Google with certain...Read More

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Microsoft has no problem asking Google to remove links on Google search results related to software piracy of Microsoft’s various products. In fact, Microsoft’s the top copyright owner to submit URL removal requests to Google in the past month by a fairly hefty amount. According to Google’s new Transparency Report, Microsoft – or companies reporting...Read More

Google received requests to purge more than a million links from its search results in March, according to the search giant’s monthly “transparency report.” The request-for-removal metric is a new one, appearing in the latest version of the report released Thursday. According to the report, Google received requests from some 2400 copyright owners and reporting...Read More

By Ross Kerber Sun May 20, 2012 4:45pm EDT (Reuters) – Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step — at least for their generation — of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones and computer screens. “Take one hour a day and turn that thing off,”...Read More

On the surface, Google’s Knowledge Graph seems like just another search feature, but connect the dots and it could become the brains behind a Siri-like virtual assistant. In a blog post, Google’s Amit Singhal dropped a strong hint that there’s more to Knowledge Graph than meets the eye: “We’re proud of our first baby step—the...Read More