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Byline: Brandon Butler It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west. Read Network World's other tech arguments. There is such a variety [...]

Once you're allowed in, Google's new cloud storage service, usually called GDrive, is nice for people who need to find a place to store files so that they can access [...]

Google News served as a landing place for more than 150,000 articles in the five days since U.S. President Barack Obama announced the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind [...]

All of the Android smartphone talk heading into this week has centered on the plan for Verizon Wireless, Google and Motorola to unveil the Motorola Droid X at an event [...]

Everything happens in real time nowadays, even ad management. To wit, Google is adding mobile support for AdWords, giving advertisers and agencies the option of managing their accounts on the [...]

Starting this week, Google will present search results in the order in which users are most likely to prefer, based on their recent search histories. In a blog post, Google's [...]

GOOGLE trends suggest that interest in eurozone destinations is increasing. It has been heavily reported that 2009 has been a very strong year for non-euro holiday destinations thanks to a [...]

Shaken, stirred Scientists make ice cocktails similar to those found on Europa, Enceladus, and Titan to study the physical processes without spending billions of dollars. And the winner is ... [...]

Google has offered to open its digital library to rivals in another bid to save its controversial deal with US publishers and authors to scan millions of out-of-print books. The […]

Obama (SIDEWAYS) In speech to joint session, has to stop pussyfooting about health care. Win one for the Tedster. Cheney (DOWN) Says torture was OK even if it went beyond […]

In this video, Lorenzo Colitti, network engineer at Google, discusses the company's new IPv6 network. With IPv4 network addresses running out, RIPE NCC, an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation that supports […]

Google Labs recently launched a product called Similar Images that allows users to search for images using others images instead of words. Until now searching for images with Google meant [...]

Putting a fairy tale spin on children's healthcare Sanford Children's Hospital has moved out of the main building of Sanford USD Medical Center and into a fairy tale. Calling itself [...]

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS IN A SCRAP: While much scrapbooking has turned digital, the good old-fashioned stuff -- albums made with sticky corners and sparkly pens -- gets a full hearing [...]

My favorite way to look at photographs is by leafing through homemade albums. The captions are fanciful, the order is significant, the material is diverse. Good albums communicate a private [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Google today launched an addition to its mobile Google Maps service that lets users share their location and find their friends online, stepping up to compete with [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Google may have released tools to stop service providers from throttling customer connections, but we're not sure who was monitoring the search giant when its process for [...]

Pharmacists might be surprised to learn that one of the most powerful tools available to prepare them for an impending flu epidemic is one they've been using for years to [...]

For four years, I'd been a happy user of Bloglines, an RSS feed service owned by Ask.com since 2005. Then a funny thing happened a month or so ago. Feeds […]

Last month, Google began rolling out two new important programs that could push RSS even further into the mainstream: 1. Blogger/Google Reader RSS Integration Blogs written using Google's popular Blogger [...]

Computing: Archaeologists are using free satellite imagery from Google Earth to make discoveries, develop theories and plan expeditions INDIANA JONES, it is fair to say, would not approve. A small [...]

Byline: ANDREA L. FOSTER When college students begin researching Margaret Mead, Einstein's theory of relativity, Marxism, or any other weighty topic, their first stop is often Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia [...]

Google's change to Quality Score, its paid search ad ranking metric, could significantly ramp up advertiser cost-per-click prices, according to search experts. The company last week revealed major changes to […]

…will they come? Lively, Google's virtual world, has been a flop IT SOUNDED like a brilliant idea. Google, the internet giant, would bring 3-D virtual worlds to the masses by [...]

Google has not confirmed when Ad Planner will move beyond beta status and when it might be offered outside the US. It has also not been transparent about how it […]

The cost for brands developing location-based services (LBS) is to be slashed following Google's decision to bring its Gears plug-in to mobile. Businesses such as taxi firms or cinemas will […]

Byline: Rich Karpinski If you've already got hardware on your desktop and in your living room, Google wants to connect these two worlds with a simple - and free - [...]

New York After several days to digest the news, the digital media world has determined that the launch of Google's Ad Planner isn't likely to upend the Web metrics business. [...]

A year after launching in the UK and Google Checkout is yet to become established among retailers. Emma Rubach finds that sometimes a strong brand isn't enough When it launched […]

Byline: ABBEY KLAASSEN Google has built the most powerful brand in the world with nary a bit of brand advertising. But as ads for Google Maps crop up on buses [...]

Byline: Stephen Copestake Create a successful sitemap Creating a sitemap is an advanced technique that will prompt Google to crawl your site sooner and more effectively, especially after you've made [...]

Byline: Stephen Copestake Getting your website noticed There are ways to make websites more visible to search engines without employing consultants, explains Stephen Copestake Search engine optimisation, or SEO, is [...]

By providing more than just text links - such as images, maps, video and blogs - search engines can give users more relevant results, benefitting brands If natural search is […]

Google recently announced it was opening up keyword bidding on its search engine, is it a step too far? It seems like a move by Google to increase revenues. However, [...]

Google's move to allow companies to openly bid on competitors' 'trademarked' search terms has not impressed the industry. With travel companies already pouring millions into the Google pay-per- click coffers, [...]

Google has introduced technology to allow users to edit online documents offline. The announcement marks a step forward in cloud computing, an alternative to having local servers or personal devices […]

Byline: Rich Karpinski GrandCentral, Google's Web-based unified communications play, began its slow escape out of private beta today with invites to the free service now available via Google's blogging service, [...]

Byline: Danny Sullivan Last May, I predicted Google's new Universal Search results would open the door for video ads. They're he-ere! Google is running a private test program that allows [...]

Practitioners seeking a specific piece of medical information online should consider initiating searches with Google, which provides a list of medical resources likely to contain the information needed, according to [...]