Google plans to release its hotly anticipated Chrome operating system toward the end of the year, they will initially be targeting laptop users, according to the head of the project. (more…)

Google has decided to release a full version of its Moderator service for all YouTube users, this will allow channel owners and viewers to talk about videos and other relevant topics (or completely irrelevant ones as is often the case) on channel pages, as a more structured alternative to the standard video comments. (more…)

After a fairly drawn out affair authorities in the US have approved Google’s controversial $750m acquisition of AdMob, the leading mobile phone advertising company in the world. (more…)

Google have this week unveiled the beta version of their encrypted search engine, SSL, designed for international searches, the new service will give users the option of enhanced security if they are at all suspicious that their internet connection may be being accessed by third parties. (more…)

New figures released by ComScore have revealed that Yahoo! and Bing have had a good month of April as both companies have gained some ground on Google in the search engine war. (more…)

Google have been making steady inroads into the web browser market of last as their rivalry with Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla intensifies. (more…)

After having been locked in a long running court battle in the US regarding their plans to create an online library bigger than any other; Google have finally announced the release of their much anticipated Google Editions e-book store which will go live at the end of June or early in July. (more…)

Recent results for internet browser use read well for competitors of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with Google and their Chrome browser coming off best. (more…)

Google seem to be getting ahead of themselves quite recently as their promise to buy “one new company a month” seems to have had a slight increase as they have now purchased their seventh start-up in five months. (more…)

Having innovated the way in which we search on the internet, Google are looking to create a different approach to web search query results. (more…)

Google Buzz launched earlier this year to compete with Facebook and Twitter in a social networking war that, lets face it, they have never really had a chance of winning. As seemed fairly inevitable at the time Google Buzz is still some way behind the main two in terms of users but Google have given themselves a boost by integrating their popular Google Maps service with their new social networking platform. (more…)

Google have announced a brand new feature that will allow users of social networking site Twitter to search a public archive of Tweets efficiently, the service will be named Google Replay. (more…)

Google has undergone a major overhaul of its suite of business management applications (Google Apps) in order to provide a rival to Microsoft Office 2010 which is set to be released in the coming months. (more…)

Google have kept to their previously promised practise of buying one new company every month in 2010 with the purchase of UK based visual search engine Plinkart. (more…)