Microsoft's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has said that the software giant has a long way to go to compete with Google when it comes to search and advertising.
The ACCC has announced that it will not oppose the agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo to combine their search and search advertising businesses.
Search giant Google said today that it would offer a free search marketing campaign worth $75 to Australia's small and medium businesses with the stated aim of giving them a boost in tough economic conditions.
I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google.
Google's Adsense earnings are threatened by a trojan that replaces the search giant's paid-for adverts with its own, in order to hijack advertising revenue.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
Imagine for a minute -- just imagine -- that all the Google phone rumours are true and the search giant is about to bring out its own mobile device. What can Google give us that the existing handset makers can't?
A big part of the Google mythology is that you can solve virtually any problem through a combination of clever technology and the use of open standards. The Google reality is a bit more complicated.
Graeme Wood, the founder of one of Australia's most successful online businesses, made a very salient point yesterday about the challenge of delivering personalised online services.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
By now, the regulatory, cultural, practical and financial problems in Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition have been well aired. Let's skip forward to 2009, when they've all been solved and Yahoo is now a Microsoft brand.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
The Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, officially opened Google's new Australian offices at a ceremony held in Sydney this morning. ZDNet.com.au was there to see the unique features of this new building.
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media Publishing, talks to Jerry Yang about his job as CEO of Yahoo. Yang discusses his decision to take the position, the challenges he's faced since then, and his vision for building a better advertising and content platform.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
Web surfers battling "spyware" face a new problem: So-called spyware-killing programs that install the same kind of unwanted advertising software they promise to erase.
Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.
If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
Google has unveiled an expanded test version of its search engine for current events and news, the latest step in the company's move into new markets.
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