New York -- For years, Google has been at the forefront of the speech recognition technology movement. Furthering its investment in voice interaction, the search engine behemoth Google on Friday said that it is beefing up its voice services with a fresh acquisition of Cambridge, U.K.-based maker of speech synthesis software startup blog.

Mountain View, California -- As the battle over intellectual property and online piracy escalates, search engine titan Google, in response to pressure from music and film companies and other copyright holders, announced a number of measures on Thursday intended to the way it deals with copyright infringement on its ubiquitous search engine, including a promise to work with content owners requests for the removal of websites that do not respect copyright out of its AdSense program within 24 hours.

Mountain View, California -- Online ads are continuously evolving, offering marketers ad units with links to various relevant site pages. If you are enjoying some of the relatively new AdWords features like click-to-call, Sitelinks, and Product Ads, and now the search engine giant Google has added a new kind of report to AdWords called "Click Type".

San Francisco -- Global search and advertising giant Google's undaunted ascension to the Internet search engine throne has caused some to doubt the sincerity of its “Don't Be Evil” motto and made it a prime target for market watchdogs. A tiny British shopping comparison site has triggered an investigation by the European Commission into whether Google is abusing its monopoly position by deliberately lowering rivals' sites in its search results.

Mountain View, California -- According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, search engine titan Google's long awaited invasion into the world of impending e-books store now has an official launch date: The end of the year. Google Editions, is finally nearing launch with a release coming at some point during the month of December.

San Francisco -- Relentless striving to bring up to the minute innovation to its products, global search engine leader Google on Monday released an updated version of Google Earth 6 into its interactive digital atlas, which integrates a more seamless Street View experience and includes 3D species-specific models of trees.

Mountain View, California -- Scheduling and organizing meetings is a cumbersome task, but Google Calendar is quite a handy tool for managing such works, which is quickly catching up to Microsoft's Outlook and Exchange calendaring system, the search engine titan Google Inc. announced today on The Official Gmail Blog that it has now added some new feature to Google Calendar called “Optional Attendees” -- which allows individuals to manage the importance of those who are invited to attend a certain event.

San Francisco -- Attempting to avoid any unwanted controversy, Mountain View, Calif.-based, search engine titan Google had suggested that it will make it mandatory for developers to add content ratings for all apps in Android Market. The new rules, according to the company, aroused as a result of Android users asking for more information on apps.

Mountain View, California -- Relentlessly attempting to keep its products and services alive, last month Google Docs unleashed drag and drop image insertion, and now the global search engine leader Google on Tuesday updated its cloud-based Office rival Docs by adding two new useful functions to Google Docs user interface -- the ability to drag-and-drop upload documents to Google Docs, as well as Compact Controls.

Texarkana, Texas -- Global search and advertising giant Google is facing a class action lawsuit after a Texas resident on Wednesday lodged a complaint against Google claiming that the search engine leader's Gmail service snooped on his emails in order to sell and place advertisements on account holder's user screens, violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986.

Mountain View, California -- In the insect world, parasitic wasps inject larvae into certain caterpillars. The larvae feed on the caterpillars, turn them into zombies, and eventually devour them. A similar concept is adopted by the Internet search engine behemoth Google, Google is putting its DocVerse team to use, unleashing a new plug-in for Google Docs that lets offline Microsoft Word documents communicate with Web-based Google Docs files.

Los Angeles -- Global search engine leader Google, striving to promote one of its incredible Google Maps Navigation Service in Australia and New Zealand, over the weekend launched turn-by-turn navigation capabilities for Australian Android users, with the company launching the product at its Sydney headquarters.

San Francisco -- The power of Google Docs is flourishing everywhere, and now it is coming to your pocket thanks to support for mobile browsers. The search engine giant is extending full mobile support from one of the best online editing of Google Docs so that for the first time the product will enable users Android and iOS devices to edit online documents and collaborate with other users.

San Francisco -- In a closely watched monthly ranking of search engine providers, indicates that October witnessed business as usual in the U.S. search engine market with Google and Bing both seizing slightly more share, but Yahoo, which partners with Microsoft on some technology, slipped a bit, according to data released yesterday by digital measuring market research firm comS core.

Mountain View, California -- Google consolidated Gmail with Google Voice in late August, enabling people to make and receive calls from their computer with a Google Voice number. Earlier this month, there were some initial reports that Google has been working on improving this feature with a nifty addition: Now it appears that search engine titan Google has silently unfurled a novel feature that might be frowned upon by certain parties -- the ability to record inbound Google Voice calls directly from Gmail.

Mountain View, California -- While we might be squabbling whether or not Google Buzz is dead, Google Docs is alive and well. For those of you who rely on Google Docs to organize their works, share files or simply process their thoughts, now have the reason to rejoice! In a blog post, the Google Docs team just added several new features that should come in handy in special circumstances, those are: auto-corrections, LaTex in equations, and images in spreadsheet cells.