Along with the “map” and “satellite” views, there is a “hybrid” view that overlays map data (such as street names) on top of the satellite imagery. Hybrid view is available for the US, Canada, UK, and Japan.
It’s cool and useful, but it’s not a new idea. TerraFly has been offering street names and other information […]

Today Google announced that quarterly profit more than quadrupled, thanks to growth in search advertising. However, shares fell 5% as revenue failed to match high expectations and the company said summer doldrums were hurting business.
CEO Eric Schmidt said that the current quarter may not see the same 15% sequential revenue gain Google posted last year, […]

Surf the Moon Google Style. Google has annouced today “In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor.” The images are courtesy of NASA according to Google, and […]

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Microsoft filed a lawsuit against Google today asserting that Google hired away a Microsoft executive in violation of a clause in the executive’s contract.
Kai-Fu Lee, who worked at Microsoft since 1998, was hired to lead Google’s China operations.
Tom Burt, deputy general counsel for Microsoft, said Dr. Lee had knowledge of trade secrets pertaining to Microsoft’s […]

Google is using Captchas* to shut out bots from its various services. Unfortunately by doing so they are also shutting out blind people.

Susan Kuchinskas says:
“Accessibility activists charge that search goliath Google shuts blind people out of many of its services. (…)
Many vision-impaired computer users employ screen readers, software applications that convert text and graphics […]

Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Hearst Corp. are investing about $100 million in Current Communications Group, a start-up that offers high-speed Internet connections over electricity lines, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Current Communications, of Germantown, Maryland, uses a (BPL) technology that […]

Google’s e-mail service Google Mail is no longer issuing addresses for Germany from the domain gmail.com. The service now only provides addresses for the domain googlemail.com because of a legal dispute over the brand name Gmail. Hamburg entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, holder of the brand “G-Mail … und die Post geht richtig ab” (G-mail… the […]

Google Inc. has been named as one of the world’s 100 largest companies, based on stock market value. According to the latest version of the FT Global 500 rankings, the Mountain View, California-based company has risen from 279th place to 95th as the result of the rise in its share price that has given the […]

Next stop for the Google (Quote, Chart) toolbar is the open-source Mozilla Firefox browser, according to an e-mail posted on the Mozilla site. The July 1st e-mail, posted on Mozilla’s developer site, was penned under the name of Google engineer Fritz Schneider.
“I thought I’d drop you a note to give a heads up […]