Study: Google gets 70 per cent of all US searches in June
Seventy per cent of US searches in June were done on Google's search engine, according to Web measurement figures from market research company Hitwise.
Stories by Linda Rosencrance
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Report: New models of Amazon's Kindle coming
Amazon is set to release two new models of its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, according to the TechCrunch blog.
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Report: Time Warner in talks with Yahoo, MS for AOL deal
Time Warner is in separate talks with Microsoft and Yahoo to sell its AOL Internet division before Yahoo holds its annual shareholders meeting on August 1, according to a Reuters report.
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Privacy groups to Google: What took you so long?
Privacy groups are glad that Google has finally placed a link to its privacy policy on its home page, but they said it was something the search engine company was legally obligated to do anyway.
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Sold on eBay for $399k: One life
Australian resident Ian Usher, 44, sold everything he owned on eBay for a little more than US$382,000 in an online auction that ended Sunday.
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eBay fined $61M in furor over fake goods
A French court has fined eBay US$61 million for allowing the sale of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture counterfeit goods on its Web site, the luxury goods company LVMH said Monday.
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Hello .ebay, .microsoft? ICANN votes to expand top-level domain names
As expected ICANN, the nonprofit group that manages the Internet domain name system, unanimously voted to begin the process of relaxing the rules for generic top-level domain names (gTLDs).
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ICANN to vote on relaxing rules for top-level domain names
ICANN, the nonprofit group that manages the Internet domain name system, will vote at its meeting in Paris on Thursday on whether to open up the rules for top-level domain names.
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Yahoo investor urges shareholders to pick Door No. 3
A Yahoo investor is urging fellow shareholders to vote for a board of directors that would combine some of the company's current directors with some of the nominees on the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9085798">slate</a> offered by billionaire investor and Yahoo shareholder <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Carl+Icahn">Carl Icahn</a>.
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Google, Yahoo and the elephant in the room
Despite assurances from Google and Yahoo that their online advertising deal doesn't need regulatory approval, the two companies should not be too quick to dismiss Microsoft's influence on Capitol Hill.
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Berners-Lee: Challenge of the Web is 'creative connectivity'
The challenge of the Web is to build a system that enables people to creatively solve problems that they couldn't solve on their own, said Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium.
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Icahn calls Yahoo execs 'self-destructive doomsday machines'
In an open letter to Yahoo's board of directors Wednesday, billionaire investor Carl Icahn expressed his dissatisfaction with Yahoo and CEO Jerry Yang and likens them to "self-destructive doomsday machines."
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Google: YouTube lawsuit threatens exchange of info on 'Net
Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company, Google, threatens the way that hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange various kinds of content via the Internet, Google contended in an answer to an amended version of the complaint filed by Viacom last month.
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Google opens up a little on its search algorithms
After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little.
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Report: Google holds meeting on revived Microsoft-Yahoo deal
Executives of Google held an emergency meeting this week to discuss the implications of revived talks between Microsoft and Yahoo, according to a report in The Times in the UK.
