Mountain View, California -- Every time AOL is expected to fade into obscurity, something crazy happens to make it relevant again. Today it has signed on for another tour with search engine seraph Google, the far-and-away market leader. Google and AOL have inked a new five-year deal to let Google continue powering the search results served up by AOL.com.

Mountain View, California -- Google has took the wraps off a new tool late Monday for its free Web-based Gmail service that helps users sorts incoming email into three sections, based on their perceived importance and steer clear of drowning in the floods of digital messages that have become part of modern life.

Mountain View, California -- Barely days after acquiring Angstro, search engine giant Google Inc. continues its pattern of shopping spree by scooping up the social games start-up SocialDeck Inc., the latest in a series of acquisitions aimed at helping the Internet search titan build a social-networking service to compete with Facebook Inc.

San Francisco -- After months of ongoing discussions, search engine giant Google and the Associated Press announced on Monday they have resolved a deadlock over extending their licensing deal, which allows it to host full-text news articles from the US news agency on Google sites such as Google News.

Mountain View, California -- Google's YouTube video-sharing website is in discussion with Hollywood's leading movie studios to unfold a global pay-per-view video service that could be introduced by the end of the year, thrusting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content, the Financial Times reported on.

Mountain View, California -- The Internet search engine giant Google, striving to counter the growth of Facebook, continues to determinedly pursue social-networking capabilities, this time with the acquisition of Palo Alto-based startup “Ångströ,” an outfit that built all sorts of apps that hook into “social” sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Washington -- Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Friday, triggered a patent shot across the bow of several prominent technology companies, suing 11 major Web-based firms, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube and eBay, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago, which he owns.

Mountain View, California -- Another day, another service has been unfolded from the house of world's most popular search engine leader. Google Inc. on Thursday strengthened its efforts to make its Web-search results timelier, for users who want to sift through news, comments, further embraced the world of tweets, status updates, and on-the-fly posts with a website devoted to finding "real-time" content as it hits the Internet.

Mountain View, California -- Internet search engine giant Google has just invaded Skype's territory Wednesday with the introduction of a new service that delivers Voice over Internet Protocol to Gmail and make phone calls over the Web to landlines or cellphones and links the service to Google Voice app. Currently, only users in the US will be able to make calls from inside their Gmail account.

San Francisco -- Most of the Earth's surface is covered with water, which we land-lubbers have a difficult time exploring on our own. Google Earth enthusiasts who own smartphones powered by Google Earth for Android adds an ocean layer to its application for surveying our planet. The new capability has been just added into the mix with the launch of Google Earth 1.1 for Android, namely ocean diving.

Mountain View, California -- Last week, the silicon valley was abuzz with search engine giant Google in apparent discussion to bundle up its arsenal with a visual shopping site and, finally on Monday the company announced that it has acquired visual search company Like.com, which specializes in visual search technology that lets people hunt online for bargains using pictures of clothing, handbags, shoes or other items they might desire.

Mountain View, California -- The Internet is swirling with talks about search engine giant Google is experimenting with a new manifestation of its search engine that rejiggers results pages as you type your query, in real-time, according to a video captured by a UK-based SEO.

New York -- If you are an iPad developer that just cannot hold longer for iAds, and wish to get ads on your free application in a jiffy, you may be delighted to know Google's new ad format for iPad. Internet search engine titan Google recently announced that they are releasing a new feature for its Mobile for AdSense apps, optimized for the iPad in a nod to the growing number of iPad apps as well as the growing usage the extremely popular tablet that has no true Android competitor right now, which lets developers in the U.S. and Canada, who are participating in the beta program, to monetize their iPad apps.

Mountain View, California -- Google over the weekend announced that they have made available a developer preview of its “Chrome Web Store,” which enables access to Web applications. The new “App Store for the web” has been unfolded in a developer preview, allowing developers to get their hands on the new business.

The web store, which was introduced by the search engine earlier this year, is configured to offer a selection of apps that can be downloaded for use with Google's Chrome web browser and its Chrome OS, which is not expected to launch until Q4 of 2010.

“Since our announcement of the Chrome Web Store at Google I/O, our team has been persistently working to prepare for our launch later this year. Today we are making the first step towards this milestone by making available a developer preview of the Chrome Web Store,” said software engineer, Michael Noth, in a blog.

Los Angeles -- In an attempt to deliver the best to its users, search engine titan Google who values web apps above else, this week released the latest version of Picasa, its photo management and editing software. The latest release delivers several new features, but a cool facial recognition feature for slideshows is sure to get the most attention, and is certainly the one Google is putting front and center.

The Picasa desktop application that has just been revised to Picasa 3.8, it comes with several new, attractive features as well as work under the hood.

Mountain View, California -- Ever wanted to search not only your E-mail, but your presentations, spreadsheets and documents? One of Google's great promises is that it would make finding stuff a lot easier, thanks to a Gmail Labs experiment, Gmail users now have the option of searching their Docs and Sites files along with their messages. The internet search engine leader Google on Wednesday expanded the integration between Gmail and Google Apps through the introduction of a new “Apps Search” feature in Gmail.

Mountain View, California -- Barely a day after Yahoo unleashed a revamped version of its iPad web Mail app, Internet search engine titan Google as part of its Iterative Web App series, announced today on the Official Google Mobile Blog a new version of its Gmail web app for the Apple iPad and it features a "Stacked Cards Interface," making it easier to view multiple messages.

Madrid -- Spain has become the latest country to penalize search engine giant Google over alleged privacy violations made during mapping for its "Street View" feature. A judge in Spain initiated an investigation over complains whether Google unlawfully gathered data from unsecured wireless networks while gathering photographs for its photo-mapping service Street View, the association that filed the suit said Monday.

China -- What has been described as a sophisticated act of malice, Internet users in China are facing a phishing attack -- Google's Gmail service in China has been hijacked by hackers, which is redirecting users of the service to a bogus phishing website to steal usernames and passwords, according to reports from various sources.

Mountain View, California -- It appears that Internet search engine giant Google is on the verge of discussion to acquire visual search and e-commerce site Like.com for more than $100 million, according to a report in Techcrunch.