Google co-founder Larry Page is set to take over as the search giant's new CEO on Monday. But some worry he may not have the management skills to steer the Internet's most powerful company. After all, early investors made him step down as Google's first CEO in 2001. Will he fare better the second time around?
In its first government complaint against a rival, Microsoft has accused Google of antitrust behavior in Europe. The European Commission is investigating the search giant after smaller websites alleged that Google was unfairly burying them in search results.
Google on Friday announced that it has adjusted its search-engine ranking system to demote so-called "low quality" sites and boost the rankings of sites with original content and substantial analysis.
In the latest battle between tech giants Google and Microsoft, Google has accused Microsoft of "cheating" by using Google's search results to improve Bing's. Microsoft says there's nothing wrong with that.
Move over, Michael Jackson. The BP oil spill topped the list of most popular Yahoo searches in 2010, ejecting Jackson -- the hottest search in 2009 -- from the top spot. Other top searches included Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, Justin Bieber and American Idol.
Ask.com is laying off roughly 130 engineers and giving up on its own all-purpose search technology. It plans to go back to its roots of answering simple questions instead of indexing everything on the Web. Its exit leaves only two general search providers: Google and Microsoft.
Baidu's third-quarter profit more than doubled, year over year, as online advertising surged. The company also benefited from increased market share after Google closed its China-based search engine in March.
Analysts expect the leading Web portal to report a 15% increase in earnings for the second quarter, largely due to cost cutting. Revenues are expected to be flat year-over-year.
Google's search engine continues to leave competitors in the dust. According to a new report from ComScore, Google accounted for 66.1% of all U.S. searches in September, up from 65.4% in August, while Yahoo lost market share.
Yahoo is rolling out new search features starting today, with more options and snapshots appearing in capsules ant the top of the page. The company hopes to reverse its steady decline in ad revenue from searches. But will this be enough to help distinguish it from Bing?
In an extraordinary blog post, Frank Shaw presses a case for the company's primacy in tech -- clearly a reaction to its many critics and skeptics on Wall Street, given that Microsoft's share price is less than half what it was in 1999.
Google's dominance in the E.C. has sparked a European Commission anti-trust investigation.
Google has acquired Aardvark, a search startup founded by former Googlers, for a reported $50 million. Aardvark is a social-search engine that allows users to ask questions of their friends and friends' networks, and receive quick responses.
