Google's Android goes live for demo. Lots of video and stills. Cache.
posted on May 28, 2008 - View this thread

Microsoft buys stake in Facebook. Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Microsoft's rival Google, which was also keen to invest the site. Microsoft will also sell internet ads for Facebook outside the United States as part of the deal that took several weeks of negotiating. Mark Zuckerberg started the online social networking site in his Harvard University dorm room less than four years ago.
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - View this thread

How to Read 600 RSS Feeds a Day for Pleasure and Profit. Video of Robert Scoble showing how he culls 600 RSS feeds a day for his weblog, Scobleizer, using Google Reader.
posted on Jul 17, 2007 - View this thread

Google Checkout is officially unveiled today; the latest service to join the Google arsenal in their race to control the entire www. It has been suggested in the news that the Google payment service was also a big factor in the recent Yahoo and eBay partnership, since eBay's Paypal service might finally have some real competition. More info on the service here.
posted on Jun 29, 2006 - View this thread

Google Base launches. Is it me or does this look a lot like craigslist?
posted on Nov 16, 2005 - View this thread

Customized Google News , launched today, requires no registration, unlike Yahoo News or MSNBC News or even clean-format My Way News. A revolution in customization without commitment, based on Google's largely no-registration strategy. One giant leap in Google commoditization. I'd link you to the Google Blog entry, but although it reached my RSS reader it disappeared from the blog.
posted on Mar 10, 2005 - View this thread

Google News gets some competition from Microsoft. MSNBC unveils its 'newsbot.'
posted on Jul 31, 2004 - View this thread

Not to touch on politics, but I found this particularly striking example of how Google News can reveal a dimension of 'news' that can be difficult to observe.
posted on Jul 2, 2004 - View this thread

Word on the street is google has filled for an IPO. Hot Damn!
posted on Apr 29, 2004 - View this thread

Microsoft fires back at Google News. As described in this article in New Scientist, MSN is trying its own version of Google News with a twist: theirs adds customized content tailored to the interests of the current reader.
posted on Nov 18, 2003 - View this thread

Google's News has launched as a new tab on their other search interfaces with a heavy redesign, though it still carries a "beta" label. The front page changes every few minutes based on some hidden popularity algorithm, as do the sub-pages. Featuring a stark ad-free design that looks quite a bit more attractive than CNN.com or any other major news site, perhaps robot-collected news is the wave of the future.
posted on Sep 23, 2002 - View this thread

Google Current Events: Always the innovator, Google's brains make it easier to find news (and archives of news) about all of today's events.
posted on Sep 11, 2001 - View this thread

More google ???: phone/address listings (with a map right to your house!), and (useless) news headlines which contain search terms (some screenshots in case they are just testing).
posted on Aug 23, 2001 - View this thread

google restores deja view google restores usenet archives; according to the article, it's a better search engine than before.
posted on Apr 27, 2001 - View this thread