Google and Microsoft will spar today at a congressional hearing called to examine whether Google’s revenue-sharing deal with No 2 search rival Yahoo will harm competition. Google, with more than 60 per cent of the Web search market, and Yahoo, with 16.6 per cent, announced a deal on June 12 that would [...]
Facebook’s decision to release under open source a large-scale data management project similar to - and inspired by - Google’s BigTable has received backing from an unusual quarter: Microsoft.
Data center futures architect and distinguished database developer James Hamilton, has complemented the pimply faced social network for releasing what he said “looks like a well-engineered system.”
Hamilton [...]
SUN VALLEY, IDAHO, July 10 (Reuters) - An independent Yahoo Inc is better for business, Google Inc Chief Executive told reporters on Thursday, saying a combination with Microsoft Corp would be anti-competitive.
“The world is better off with an independent Yahoo,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters. There’s “more competition … in search, and more [...]
Google, known for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has come up with something much wackier.On Tuesday the company introduced Lively, an online tool that allows people to embody a cartoonish online avatar and have text-based conversations with friends and other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. The rooms can be added to any blog [...]
An Indian man is facing five years in jail for making an “offensive” comment after Google handed his personal data to local police. Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid, a 22 year-old IT consultant, was arrested after posting derogatory comments on Google’s Orkut social networking site. Vaid was posting in a forum called ‘I hate Soniya Gandhi’ and [...]
