Search Engine Journal

There was apparently much more to the Microsoft-Yahoo merger story than many of us knew.  Today the Wall Street Journal reports that a judge unsealed documents in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo, and the contents are quite surprising.  The most damaging bit of information contained is that Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo at $40 per […]

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While there were some reports floating around that parts of Android might not be as open source as original thought, Google has come out and made it clear: the core Android platform will be 100% open source.
ZDNet confirmed with various Google employees that everything will be open r. Besides a couple exceptions, everything will […]

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The Belgian copyright defense group known as Copiepresse recently filed a court document, asking for up to 49 million Euros, or $77.25 million, in damages from Google.  The issue at hand is Google’s reproduction of select extracts from Belgian newspapers.
This is not Google’s first tangle with Copiepresse.  Last year, a Belgian court ruled that Google […]

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Upon graduation, the dream of many MBA students is to snag a job at Google.  Yep, that’s right - Google.  For the second year in a row, Google has become the most coveted employer of MBA grads, beating out expected favorites of investment banks and consulting firms.  A survey found that 23.65% of those students […]

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According to Google Inc., a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought against YouTube by Viacom Inc. threatens to drastically alter the way hundreds of millions of people share all kinds of information on the Internet.  The claim was made in papers filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, as Google responded to Viacom’s latest […]

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Be careful what you do on Orkut, Google may not be willing to protect your privacy, depending on where you live. On Monday Google revealed that it complied with Indian legal processes when handing over information about an Orkut user to Indian police.
By supplying the IP address of an individual who is alleged to […]

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Last week the popular social networking site Facebook blocked Google’s new service, Friend Connect, due to privacy concerns. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now says that he’d like to sit down and talk with Google and work out some of these issues.
Google Friend Connect allows website owners to add social networking functions to their own […]

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Microsoft may have walked away from the table in negotiations with Yahoo for a takeover deal, but just because they’ve pulled their bid, that doesn’t mean the takeover talks have ended. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn lauched a proxy war to unseat Yahoo’s current board of directors, and unveiled an alternate board of directors for the […]

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For the longest time, Yahoo was the U.S.’s most-visited website and Google was the most popular search engine.  That has, however, changed.  Google is now both the country’s top-visited website as well as the most popular search engine.
Losing the title surely is a disappointment to Yahoo, who are currently trying to turn around their company […]

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Google has begun rolling out new technology that will bring a layer of privacy to their controversial Street Views product that was previously unavailable. The technology automatically blurs out any human face appearing in the service’s street-level photos, which were taken by camera-mounted vehicles.
The face blurring technology will be applied to all existing Street […]

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