Two kings get together; Google and YouTube.

The Economist (US);  October 14, 2006 ;     787 words ...Google's acquisition of YouTube shows that Web 2.0 has come of age CHAD and Steve remind me of Larry and Sergey, said Eric Schmidt, father figure and chief executive of Google, on October 9th. Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, was announcing its purchase, for $1.65 billion in shares, of ...

Google goes great guns

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  May 25, 2003 ;   Mary Anne Ostrom and Matt Marshall;   787 words ...Around the globe, Google has become a synonym for searching the Internet, as in let's "Google" that. In Silicon Valley, the Mountain View...pair of Stanford graduate students in 1998, Google reinvented online searching. Today, the company...

Google mania continues amid sense of deja vu

The Hindustan Times;  November 8, 2007 ;     560 words ...San Francisco, Nov. 8 -- With Google's share price climbing above $700, an eerily familiar...latest internet wonder vastly overvalued? Or is the Google phenomenon just beginning? Google's stratospheric valuation ranked it as the fifth-most...

Browsing the news at Google

Jerusalem Post;  September 16, 2008 ;   DAVID SHAMAH;   787 words ...Headline: Browsing the news at Google Byline: DAVID SHAMAH Edition; Daily Section...browser wars - and the news is not just about Google's new browser, Chrome. Would you believe that, as far as Google is concerned, Israel is finally "on the map...

Online Ads Give Google Huge Gain in Profit

The Washington Post;  October 21, 2005 ;   David A. Vise;   697 words ...Google Inc. yesterday reported a 700 percent increase in third...from newspapers, magazines and television to the Internet. Google's robust results and strong ad growth at its rival Yahoo...advertising has come of age. The shift is so dramatic that Google's earnings -- largely ad-driven -- were more than 10 ...

Google developing Wikipedia rival.(WEB)

The Christian Science Monitor;  December 18, 2007 ;     734 words ...Byline: Eoin O'Carroll csmonitor.com Google, Inc. announced Thursday that it is working...encyclopedia. The knol project - named for Google's shorthand for a unit of knowledge...project is to highlight authors, writes Google's Udi Manber on the company's official...

Building, keeping trust key to Google's future.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 22, 2004 ;   Gillmor, Dan;   787 words ...Byline: Dan Gillmor As Google nears the day when it sells stock to...in the marketplace? However brilliant Google's technology may be _ and it's both...and a single word sums it up: trust. Google must become synonymous with trust. It...

You Can Hear Google Now; Internet Giant Looking to Expand Into Cellphones

The Washington Post;  November 1, 2007 ;   Kim Hart; Zachary Goldfarb - Washington Post Staff Writers;   787 words ...Google is in late stages of talks with various wireless carriers...familiar with the discussions. It is one of several ventures Google is making into the wireless market as it tries to expand...addition to forging partnerships with wireless carriers, Google is also talking to software developers and handset ...

All Google, all the time.(Legal Issues)

Information Today;  February 1, 2005 ;   Pike, George H.;   787 words ...google: (gu gol), v.: To use the Google (http://www.google.com) search engine to locate Internet information on just about anything, e.g., The anxious dad googled his daughter's blind date. Boy was he surprised! Actually, googling Google at any time...

Google reinvented advertising — made it quiet and targeted

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 17, 2005 ;   Sebastian Mallaby Washington Post;   787 words ...MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The Google campus, an hour south of San Francisco...the lobby. Yet the real essence of Google is not stereotypical at all. The company...business model. The contradiction is that Google's famous search engine empowers consumers...

Google preps internet payment system

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  June 20, 2005 ;   Saul Hansell New York Times News Service;   787 words ...Google is preparing an online-payment system that would compete...according to an online retailer who has been approached by Google to take part in the effort. In addition to representing...the largest Internet payment system, the move signals Google's intention to become much more deeply involved in ...

Here be dragons; Search engines.(Google enters the Chinese market,...

The Economist (US);  January 28, 2006 ;     736 words ...Google enters the Chinese market, practising enlightened self...in China crowed that a little-known search engine called Google was the most important tool ever created to skirt state...clicking to call up a cached copy of the web page, stored by Google. Soon, however, Google itself was being ...

Congress Steps Up Questions On Google, Yahoo Ad Alliance

The Washington Post;  July 16, 2008 ;   Kim Hart - Washington Post Staff Writer;   583 words ...Google's proposed search advertising partnership with Yahoo, already...Internet competition. Lawmakers questioned executives from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- the biggest players in online marketing...hearings were prompted by an announcement last month that Google would provide some search advertising ...

Rumpus over Google stock is escalating

Daily Breeze;  December 11, 2005 ;   Michael Liedtke THE ASSOCIATED PRESS;   787 words ...SAN FRANCISCO -- Is Google Inc.'s incandescent stock a golden opportunity...have been arguing that question since Google's initial public offering in August 2004...inception in a Silicon Valley garage, Google's market value has soared to more than...

Google 2Q Earnings Surpass Expectations

AP Online;  July 20, 2006 ;     779 words ...SAN FRANCISCO - Google's second-quarter profit more than doubled...compensation and several other one-time items, Google said it would have earned $2.49 per share...eight quarters as a public company that Google has soared past the earnings hurdle set...