Google aims at Microsoft with new Web browser

SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.
The Mountain View, California-based company took the unusual step of announcing its latest product on the Labor Day holiday after it prematurely [...]

Google launches free music search service in China

LOS ANGELES – Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has launched a music search service in China that allows users to access music legally online in a forum backed by some record labels and supported by advertising revenue.
Paid music downloads in China are virtually nonexistent, and Apple Inc.’s iTunes digital music store is not offered [...]

Search site aims to rival Google

The Cuil homepage is even more sparse than Google’s

Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine.
Called Cuil, from the Gaelic for knowledge and hazel, its founders claim it does a better and more comprehensive job of indexing information online.
The technology it uses to index the web can understand the context [...]

Google supports Yahoo! in tiff with Microsoft

SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Google Inc. backs Yahoo in its effort to stave off an unsolicited takeover by Microsoft Corp. because an independent Yahoo will increase competition in the Internet search and advertising markets, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
“We absolutely support the decision that Yahoo made” in rejecting the Microsoft overture, Schmidt said [...]

Google into virtual reality with new 3-D software

SAN FRANCISCO – In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.
The Mountain View, California-based company unveiled a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in electronic rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real [...]

Google seeking Filipinos to join global contest

MANILA, Philippines – Google is seeking local developers to participate in the worldwide programming competition that will give them the opportunity to come out with a breakthrough like Google, and be as rich and popular as its founders.
Silicon Valley-based Google Inc. has opened up registration for Google Code Jam 2008 where programmers can use their [...]

Yahoo confirms Google commitment, pans Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc.’s leaders defended online search leader Google Inc. as a more desirable partner than Microsoft Corp. in a Wednesday letter that affirmed the Internet pioneer’s commitment to a strategy that has alienated shareholders.
Yahoo embraced its planned advertising partnership with Google amid reports that it had revived talks about a possible deal [...]

Google launches new space race to the moon

One of the teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize is considering this rover concept for the mission.
(CNN) — When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.
Welcome to a new kind [...]

Google grows stronger in Microsoft-Yahoo fallout

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp.’s abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. appears to have culminated with a disheartening thud for those two companies but amounted to yet another coup for online search leader Google Inc.
What began in January as Microsoft’s most audacious attack yet on Google instead paved the way for the Internet’s most powerful [...]

Yahoo seeks Google’s aid after Microsoft talks die

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. became Microsoft Corp.’s takeover prey largely because Google Inc. established such a commanding lead in the Internet’s lucrative search advertising market.
But after eluding Microsoft’s grasp, Yahoo is now turning to Google to help squelch a rebellion among its shareholders who believe it should have accepted Microsoft’s $47.5 billion buyout offer [...]