Google to abandon answer service
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Google Inc. doesn't have all the answers &#151; a fact underscored by the Internet search leader's decision to abandon a 4-year-old service that hired researchers to field questions on everything from school homework to sports trivia.
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As part of the ongoing concern over privacy and retention of private information gather from its users, Google is setting a new policy to reduce the lifetime of cookies to a period of 2 years auto-expire term. What this means is that users who visited Google&#8217;s site and continues to visit Google will have their [...]
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Google Inc said on Tuesday that  George Reyes plans to retire as chief financial officer by the  end of the year, and that the company will begin a search for a  replacement.
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Google renews and modifies its contract with Answers.
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GOOGLE has agreed to scale back how long it keeps personal search data accumulated from its web users in order to appease a European Union watchdog.
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US President George W. Bush is no longer Google's top response to Internet searches for &quot;miserable failure.&quot;
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LONDON/BRUSSELS -- Google Inc. has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop reproducing article snippets from French-language newspapers in an unprecedented copyright crackdown over what is a common online practice.
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Google Inc. said on Wednesday that the  auction has closed for its initial public offering.
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The search-engine giant, which was expected to go public as early as Wednesday, instead has slashed the deal&#39;s expected price range and cut the number of shares being sold by existing shareholder in half. The new parameters suggest a newly public Google ...
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Privacy in the hereafter Hoping to appease privacy advocates who've come down hard on its data retention policies, Google has made a practically meaningless change to its cookie policy.â¦
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By Stephen Castle  One of Google's most popular services came under threat yesterday when a court banned the search engine from reproducing articles from Belgian newspapers and opened the door to similar challenges elsewhere in Europe.
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The changes are in response to a complaint by Google that a feature of the operating system is anticompetitive.
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Google has announced plans to beef up its Gmail service with POP, or post office protocol, over the next couple of weeks. The feature, announced yesterday, will allow users to use other
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NEW YORK -- AOL will disband a unit that handled subscriptions and give product managers more autonomy over designing services for consumers as the company increases its emphasis on generating advertising revenue.
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InfoWorld - A contrite and repentant Google canceled a party that irked eBay and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google&#39;s U.S. network earlier this week.
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There is some confusion about threats posed by the new search tool. Google says common sense is enough of a patch. By Thomas Claburn.
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Wanna go the cinema instead? Google will drop the invite system for signing up to Gmail service as of tomorrow.â¦