Features

• Google management shuffle: Right move, wrong guy?

  By Edward N. Albro | 21 January, 2011 13:41

  Today's announcement that Google co-founder Larry Page would replace Eric Schmidt as the company's CEO was a surprise, but maybe it shouldn't have been. While the company's earnings are still stellar, Schmidt has made a series of embarrassing statements and the company has had some very public failures.

• Google's Realtime Search update does what Twitter won't

  By Jared Newman | 27 August, 2010 08:10

  Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.

• Ask.com bets on semantic search, targeting special audiences

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 03 July, 2009 04:31

  In the past eight months, Ask.com has unfurled a set of changes to its search engine that the IAC unit calls a success, although its share of U.S. search queries has actually shrunk during that time period.

• China warns Google over porn links

  By Owen Fletcher | 19 June, 2009 18:13

  Google promised to step up control of "vulgar" online search results in China late Thursday, after a government-backed arbiter warned that its filtering of pornography was too weak.

• China orders Google to suspend foreign site searches

  By Owen Fletcher | 19 June, 2009 21:20

  China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state media said Friday.