Space agencies including NASA are joining forces with Internet giant Google Inc in order to fight global warming by using satellite images to monitor forests from space.
Google will have to wait longer before it can start scanning millions of books as the US Justice department asked the court to reject the settlement between the Internet giant and authors because of possible copyright and anti-trust issues.
Internet search giant Google has started a new experiment in the way Web users view news sites. The aim is to drive revenue back to news media, and of course to Google too.
"Visual search", the new feature of Microsoft's Bing, lets Web users search using images instead of text. It's the first major update of the search engine, giving users something that competitor and market leader Google doesn't yet have.
Launched in 2004, Google Book Search seeks to digitize several of the world’s libraries and thousands of literary works. But the project is under fire from critics who hesitate at entrusting humanity's cultural treasures to an Internet behemoth.
YouTube, owned by Google, is in talks with several Hollywood studios over a possible movie rental service on its site, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. If it happens, it would be the Internet giant's first online paid service.
Sony is to equip its Vaio laptops with Google's newly launched Internet browser Chrome, in what will be a big commercial boost for the search engine against rival Microsoft.
Google's free e-mail service, Gmail, suffered its second outage in a year Tuesday, following the earlier incident in February. The majority of its millions of users worldwide were unable to access their e-mail accounts for almost two hours.
