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8 out of the 12 users said they planned on sticking with Google, despite a positive experience with Bing. Some users cited the fact that the engines were producing essentially identical results.

The Chinese government said that the Chinese-language Web site of Google was linking too often to pornographic and vulgar content.

Google is taking a step towards taking all the messy, unstructured information on the Web and putting it into neat little, labeled boxes. Literally, that is what Google Squared does. First announced at last month's Searchology event, Google Squared is now live.

Google plans to help publishers sell digital versions of new books direct to consumers, for use on phones or e-book readers.

Google promised to deliver something spectacular on the second day of the Google I/O conference, and they did not disappoint. Google has just announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool that is already being hailed by some as the next evolution of email. Yes, Google Wave is potentially that disruptive.

Shortly before taking over as head of AOL in April, Tim Armstrong ripped out some office doors.

The company announced Thursday that an update to Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, combined with a new version of the Webkit browser engine, should improve the loading speed of JavaScript-heavy Web pages by up to 30 percent. The updates will be automatically downloaded to existing copies of Chrome.

We may be coming upon a new era for the Internet search. And, despite its dominance, Google is not the only player.

PageRank sculpting is a method of ensuring that PageRank passed from page to page within your site is given to only pages where search engine performance matters most.

Associated Press Chief Tom Curley threatens a news blackout. Will Google flinch?