Summary box: Google still feeling lucky at 10 (AP) AP - HUMBLE START: Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, after unsuccessfully trying to sell their search engine for a couple of million dollars. They set up shop in their Stanford dorm rooms with just four computers before moving their headquarters to a garage owned by Brin's future sister-in-law. Google chief admits to 'defensive component' of browser launch (AFP)
Google Chrome's Fine Print Spurs Privacy Concerns (NewsFactor)
Google polishes product line with Chrome browser (AP)
Google Faces Bruising Browser Fight (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - Google is king of Internet search, but analysts question its decision to go for the Web browser crown. Ad targeting based on ISP tracking now in doubt (AP)
Microsoft buys ciao.com to boost e-shopping search (Reuters)
Google to go ahead with Yahoo deal: report (Reuters)
Google Outlines Plans for Android Apps Market (PC Magazine)
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AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
AFP - Google's chief executive admitted Thursday there was a "defensive component" to the Web search giant's launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microsoft's dominant software.
NewsFactor - Google Chrome didn't even make it through 24 hours of downloads before stirring controversy. The search giant's new Web browser is in the privacy spotlight thanks to terms of service that give it rights some may not want to grant.
AP - The new Web browser that Google Inc. released Tuesday is designed to expand its huge lead in the Internet search market and reduce Microsoft Corp.'s imprint on personal computers.
AP - It sounded like a winning proposition — free money — for Internet access providers. By tracking their subscribers' personal Web surfing habits, they could help deliver ads targeted to the consumers' interests, and claim a share of the burgeoning online advertising market dominated by Internet search companies. But those efforts to sniff out co......
Reuters - Microsoft has agreed to buy Greenfield
Online, owner of popular European price comparison website
ciao.com, for about $486 million to boost its Internet search
and e-commerce business in Europe.
Reuters - Google Inc. , facing a U.S. Justice
Department probe of its search-advertising partnership with
Yahoo Inc. , will proceed with the agreement by early
October, Bloomberg said.
