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The internet search engine has risen to become the world’s most valuable media group. Its business now increasingly threatens software and internet giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay. They must find a way to face down the challenge, or be chewed up and spat out like so many search results.
In depth
Analysis: World-wise web?
Artificial intelligence may have got nowhere in 50 years but Silicon Valley is working on how to link and present online data in ways that make better sense
Growth fears hit Google shares
Google shares fell 4.6% as investors took fright from signs that growth is stalling at the leading internet company
Google pushes into online video ads
Google will launch a new advertising technology that will allow publishers to incorporate text ads into online videos in a move long awaited by the industry
Google homes in on revenues from phones
Google said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple’s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile internet
Microsoft hits back at Google
Microsoft hit back at Google over the search company’s attempt to derail its bid for Yahoo, threatening to fight back through the regulators if its ambitions were stymied by any partnership between the two
Tug of war over Yahoo looms
An alliance with Google may be one of Yahoo’s best chances of escaping Microsoft’s clutches, but it would not be able to pull off such a deal without a fight
Google weighs in against Microsoft
Google raised a red flag over Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover offer for Yahoo, arguing it could open the way for the software developer to extend its PC monopoly to the internet
Google raises internet monopoly alert
Google’s warning about the implications of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo seemed designed to appeal directly to Brussels regulators
Google plans big philanthropy boost
Spending at the search engine’s philanthropic arm to rise significantly on efforts to produce affordable renewable energy, fight poverty and alleviate the risk of pandemics
Google faces lawsuit for blocking name
A Chinese scholar who challenged the Communist government by setting up a democratic opposition party has vowed to sue the US internet company Google for excising his name from its local search results
