Google doesn't talk about its server operations very often; most of what we know boils down to one word: ''big.'' The company lifted the lid ever-so-slightly yesterday (no April Fool), and gave the world a peek inside a data center that's normally locked up tighter than Fort Knox. The results (and the company's focus) ...

Search advertising is finally feeling the full impact of the weak economy, according to a new report out this morning from online marketing analytics firm Covario. In fact, search spending fell from quarter to quarter for probably the first time ever, by 1.4% in the first quarter. The report isn't comprehensive--it's based on Covario's largely ...

In recent months, most of the news about Google focused on the cutbacks it has made to both staff and experimental projects. On Monday, however, the search giant announced a major expansion, a venture capital fund with full Google branding: Google Ventures. In contrast to some of the efforts of Google.org, these ...

Once companies grow large, it's always tough for them to come up with great new innovations like the one that built them. As Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen has outlined in detail in his books, once companies are successful, they tend to focus on serving their existing customers better, often leading them to miss or actively ...

By now, it's apparent even Google is no longer unaffected by the economy, and now the company has announced further cuts in its staff--the third reduction this year. In a blog post today, Omid Kordestani, Google's senior vice president for global sales and business development, said the search giant had simply hired more people than it needed for ...

A start-up called Wrike has announced an important product today that could make Android-based smartphones more attractive to business users.

Google just announced two new refinements to its search engine today, continuing to leave little room for competitors to get a foothold. The tweaks, announced in a Google blog post this morning, generally aim to produce better results for search...

Just days after Tim Armstrong, a top Google sales executive, announced he's leaving to become CEO of Time Warner's AOL unit, the search giant has already replaced him. Dennis Woodside, who has been vice president in charge of sales...

With no news for so many months after Google bought GrandCentral Communications in July 2007, a lot of people thought it might be one more Google acquisition that ended up getting shut down. But the service, which essentially gives you...

Despite Google's dominance of the Web, its many apps are susceptible to occasional bouts of downtime just like its competitors. In what is either a move to keep its users informed or to simply steal traffic from Down for everyone or just me, Google has quietly introduced an Apps Status site. Featuring a list of Google's core ...