Top Google execs pledged to stay 20 years: report
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Google Inc's top three executives had pledged to work together for 20 years in a pact they made shortly before the company's initial public offering in August 2004, Fortune magazine has reported.
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As Google Inc. GOOG.O  nears  the end of its first quarter as a public company, industry  watchers say one of its emerging challenges is how to keep  soon-to-be wealthy workers from cashing out and moving on.
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Google Inc. said it will soon start issuing user cookies that automatically expire after two years for users who don't return to the search site.
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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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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Just before Google Inc. went public nearly three years ago, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel assured a roomful of securities analysts and money managers that his company would remain the Internet's brightest star.
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By S. SRINIVASAN     BANGALORE, India  -- Google Inc...
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Google Inc   has hit its stride with a strategy that focuses on Web search,  advertising and applications, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said  on Wednesday, as he downplayed possible threats.
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The founders of Google Inc. did it their way, and then they paid the price. Sergey Brin, 30, and Larry Page, 31, completed an initial public offering of the largest Internet search firm yesterday using an unorthodox Dutch auction ...
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Michael Liedtke at the AP reports that Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt plan to sell some shares of GOOG. The co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, each plan to sell as many as 7.2 million
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Shares of Google Inc.  rose as much as 20 percent on Friday, to trade at more than  twice the level of its cut-price IPO, after the Web search  leader posted strong quarterly results in its first reported  quarter as a public company.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has decided to make the data it stores about end-users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, according to a blog posted Monday by the company's global privacy counsel. Previously, Google had said it would make the data anonymous after 18 to 24 months. The decision comes in response to a letter the company received last month from a European Union data protection working group regarding Google's privacy policies. Separately, a report released last week by Privacy International ranked Google worse than any other Internet company in protecting the privacy of its users. In its letter, the Article 29 Working Party, an advisory panel of representatives from the E.U.'s national data protection authorities, asked Google to explain why it needed to keep user data for 18 to 24 months. The group said server logs contain information that can be linked to a particular person and that collecting such data must comply with the EU's data protection laws. The working group said keeping the information for 18 to 24 months does not meet those laws, and it asked Google to justify its reasons for keeping the information for that length of time. The group said it planned to discuss this issue at a meeting later this month. In a response, privacy counsel Peter Fleischer said: "The Internet is a global medium, and the principles at stake -- privacy, security, innovation, and legal obligations to retain data -- have an impact beyond Europe and outside of the realm of privacy." He added: "These principles sometimes conflict: While shorter retention periods are good for privacy, longer retention periods are needed for security, innovation, and compliance reasons." Fleischer said Google believed it had "struck a reasonable balance between these various factors" and that its policies were consistent with E.U. data protection laws. Fleischer said Google needed to retain server logs for a variety of reasons, including: to improve its search algorithms for the benefit of users; to defend its systems by fighting click fraud and spam; to comply with data retention legal obligations; and to "meet valid legal orders from law enforcement as they investigate and prosecute serious crimes like child exploitation." "After considering the Working Party's concerns, we are announcing a new policy: to anonymize our search server logs after 18 months, rather than the previously established period of 18 to 24 months," Fleischer said. "We believe that we can still address our legitimate interests in security, innovation, and anti-fraud efforts with this shorter period. However, we must point out that future data retention laws may obligate us to raise the retention period to 24 months." Fleisher said Google disagrees that it could meet "legitimate interests in security, innovation, and anti-fraud efforts with any retention period shorter than 18 months." In addition, Fleischer said Google was considering the working party's concerns about cookie expiration periods and said it was looking into ways to redesign cookies to improve privacy and would make an announcement on the issue in the coming months. "As we build new products and services, we look forward to continuing our discussion with the Article 29 Working Party and with privacy stakeholders around the world. Our common goal is to improve privacy protections for our users," Fleischer said. In his blog, search engine analyst Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand.com said, "It's nice to see Google make such a fast, responsive move, though it is reacting to something that felt more like a political show rather than a real effort to improve privacy protection." Sullivan also criticized the working group for singling out Google. "I find the letter fairly amazing from a group that supposedly is concerned about privacy, in how it fails to ask any substantial questions and suggests, frankly, technical ignorance," he said in his blog. "It simply feels motivated out of political posturing. Where are the letters for Microsoft and Yahoo?"ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, said Microsoft Corp. should remain under federal court supervision to ensure it's adhering to a 2001 antitrust consent decree barring it from hurting rivals.
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EU justice chief Franco Frattini said Wednesday that Internet search leader Google Inc. had offered to cut the time it retains data on user searches from the current 24 months to 18 months amid growing concerns it could be violating EU privacy rules.
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The top executives of Google Inc. and Daum Communications Corp., South Korea's No. 2 Internet search engine, met Tuesday to discuss broadening their partnership, Daum said.
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Google does not expect to maintain the same pace of revenue growth it has recorded over the last several quarters, the company acknowledged Thursday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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The European Union's top security  official lauded Google Inc's. decision to scale back how long  it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its Web  users as a step towards addressing privacy concerns.
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Internet search leader Google Inc.  is worth &#36;200, Prudential Equity Group told investors on Friday, the day after the company published quarterly results that the broker labeled a "blowout."