It’s been 10 years since the initial public offering of ill-fated Internet pioneer Netscape Communications, and the often-told story of its rise and fall has inspired inevitable comparisons to the industry’s current darling, Google. Like Netscape, Google had a wildly successful IPO, created a mainstream technology for optimizing Internet use and, as a result, has […]

Spend more than a few minutes on Google researching somebody and chances are that you may uncover some interesting info. The trouble is that sometimes search engines expose more information than people are comfortable seeing about themselves online. It appears that Google CEO Eric Schmidt learned this lesson when CNet published an article that let […]

Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation’s largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine. The company announced the suspension, effective until November, in a notice posted on its Web site just before midnight […]