While Google has market capitalisation of almost $753 billion and Facebook commands one of $515 billion, it is the wealth of user data they have that one fears
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, which recently launched its own search platform on Friday described its competition with Google as 'fun competition'.
Iran has lashed out at search engine giant Google for leaving the body of water separating it from the Arabian Peninsula nameless on its online map service.
The ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) on Wednesday held an inter-ministerial meeting with various departments to discuss issues regarding revenue sharing between Big Tech companies and digital news publishers, according to sources. The meeting - chaired by I&B Secretary Sanjay Jaju - invited senior officials from the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA), Competition Commission of India (CCI), ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) and departments of promotion of industry and internal trade, legal affairs and consumer affairs.
Digital India was the flavour of the PM's recent Silicon Valley visit.
Google's engineering teams in Bangalore and Hyderabad have built it.
Here's how you can make Google sit up and take notice of your web site.
Users will be allowed to write articles on their own areas of expertise on the new free service called 'Knol,' which stands for unit of knowledge.
Monday's animated Google doodle sees Sergei developing the film reels.
The search engine giant is now constructing a new headquarters in London that will have a swimming pool, a running track, and all other amenities that adorn its offices worldwide.
According to the information available with the WIPO, Geneva-based WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center has ordered the transfer of domain name to the US-based search giant after Herit Shah of Gujarat offered to surrender the disputed name to Google. Google had challenged the registering of domain name 'googblog.com' by Shah at WIPO stating that it was confusingly similar to its trademark on which the company has rights.
Apart from digital advertising revenue, both companies want to reach out to the 'next billion' Indian customers. After all, around half of the 1.3 billion population is still not on the net and this represents a challenge as well as an opportunity.
E-commerce firm eBay and its online payment unit PayPal has dragged search engine Google to court over the latter's mobile payment system alleging the internet giant used trade secrets to build a rival service.
Omid Kordestani, VP, global sales and business development, said Google has created overlapping organisations in some areas, which duplicate effort and complicate the 'decision-making process. That makes our teams less effective and efficient than they should be. In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time,' he said. The affected employees would be given the opportunity to find another position in Google.
Let's take a look at some amazing perks Google offers to employees.
The Pixel handset comes with all-round improvement, and with some workable niggles here and there, the handset looks poised to take on the rival Apple iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7, says Himanshu Juneja.
The search engine company said on Thursday it would capture the city's street view and make it available on Google Maps.
The Congress was ranked sixth with a total expenditure on advertisement of Rs 54,100 on Google.
The expelled Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar in West Bengal, in her plea filed in October last year, sought permanent injunction against Dubey, Dehadrai, social media platforms X, search engine Google, YouTube and 15 media houses from making, publishing, circulating per se defamatory, ex facie false and malicious statements against her. She has also sought damages.
The search giant is building a system that stores information so that machines as well as people can read it
'Pura phas gaya woh... barbad, satyanash ho gaya woh.' 'Usko ticket bhi diya, election bhi ladha woh; ganda video bhi bahar aa gaya; hamara izzat bhi nikal diya woh; abhi letter ke baare main pooch ke kya hota hai?'
Google, a favourite place to search information on internet, has also emerged as a favoured snooping ground for the government agencies and globally India ranks third in seeking user details from the global internet major.
Internet giant Google is keen to buy the popular micro-blogging service Twitter.
Google, based in Mountain View, California, does not hold the kind of dominant position in China's search market that it does in the US.
China's largest search engine is developing prototype digital eyewear similar to Google Glass.
On this date, April 27, in 1982, the Hindi poet received the Jnanpith Award for her outstanding contribution to Indian literature.
Indian mobile and Web consumers speak in 30 languages and around 1,600 dialects.
Search giant Google on Thursday said Chromebooks will be available in India from next week, more than two-years after they were launched globally.
On Wednesday, a search for Top 10 criminals in India, yielded an image of PM Modi.
The endless chain of fast bowlers that Pakistan has produced over the years has been the envy point of other cricketing nations. Zaman Khan is the latest to join that illustrious line.
Google Inc's Android software is coming to cars, televisions and watches this year, as the Internet search giant races against Apple Inc and other tech companies to extend its business into a rapidly broadening field of Internet-connected devices.
Apps from CNN, Elle, Tumblr and Evernote are among half-dozen new apps for Glass unveiled during Google's annual developer conference.
Google's spokeswoman Marsha Wang told China Daily on Thursday that the company had not ordered its domestic advertising agents to stop doing business.
Google's Chrome OS will soon challenge the software giant's stranglehold in the operating system market.
Google Inc announced a surprise overhaul of its operating structure on Monday, creating a holding company called Alphabet to pool its many subsidiaries and separate the core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars.
The project, called e-basha, is a critical part of the ambitious Digital India programme.
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