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Google's enterprise push continues with plans to link two of its more business-oriented products: Google Search Appliance and Google Apps.

Seems simple--and long overdue--but Google is announcing plans for a new version of the Google Search Appliance that allows business users to find results within Google Apps and Google Sites, should you work for a company that uses Google's office-productivity software and corporate search appliance. The new edition, called "Cloud Connect," also lets users search Twitter and other Web sites from within their organization.

Google Search Appliance is not a product we hear an awful lot … Read more

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--In a world of data-obsessed number-crunching engineers, Google's John Boyd is the people person.

Boyd is responsible for testing user-experience changes to Google Search, the company's most important product. While Google is famous for obsessing over statistical differences in user clicks between one shade of blue versus another, Boyd's team focuses on studying how real people interact with products under development inside Google through the company's usability lab.

This mission took on great importance as Google prepared to make perhaps the biggest change to its search experience it had ever contemplated: Google Instant. … Read more

Google continues to pile up the money, beating analyst estimates today for revenue and earnings for its third quarter.

Third-quarter revenue, excluding the traffic acquisition costs Google pays to its partners, was $5.48 billion, exceeding estimates from analysts polled by Yahoo Finance of $5.25 billion for the quarter. Overall revenue of $7.29 billion increased by 23 percent, compared to last year's third quarter, on the back of a 16 percent jump in paid clicks across Google's network of Web sites.

"We're very pleased with our Q3 results, and it's clear that the … Read more

Updated 12:35 p.m. PDT with additional information and background.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Bing will soon allow searchers to see results generated by their Facebook friends' use of the "like" button on the social network, Microsoft announced today.

Microsoft's Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a press conference at Microsoft's Silicon Valley headquarters to announce an extension of a long-running partnership between the two companies to feature Facebook profiles and a "liked by your friends" section that takes advantage of the way that Web … Read more

Google executed a subtle yet important shift in its management structure today, promoting one of the most visible faces of the company to oversee a potentially important source of growth.

Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer and probably the only one who will ever grace the pages of Vogue, is taking on a new role at Google heading up its work on location-aware services and local markets after years of overseeing the user interface of Google search. She'll also be joining Google's operating committee, the cabinet-of-sorts for Google's ruling triumvirate of CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders … Read more

Google's Marissa Mayer--for years one of the most high-profile faces of the company's search team--is taking on a new role as Google appears to have made other changes to its management structure.

Mayer, currently vice president of search product and user experience at Google, is getting a promotion to Google's operating committee, tasked with overseeing the company's work on location-based services and local markets, according to a report from Bloomberg. However, it's not clear how Google currently organizes its operating committee, given that the company appears to have redesigned its management Web page.

At some … Read more

Google is shutting down GOOG-411, its first attempt to create a search-by-voice application.

The company announced in a blog post today that the service will end on November 12. First launched back in 2007, GOOG-411 allowed users to say the name of a business and have the service text you back a listing for that business with address and phone number.

Google has been doing a lot of work on speech recognition since then, and has separately begun to focus almost all of its mobile efforts on modern smartphones: GOOG-411 is kind of irrelevant if you have the Internet in … Read more

Google Calendar entered its fourth day of disruptions today with no word from Google on the cause of the problems.

Google's Apps Status Dashboard currently shows Google Calendar with the annoying yellow wrench, which isn't quite as bad as the dreaded red "x" but little comfort to those affected by the issues. Early Thursday morning Google said a Google Calendar issue "affecting less than 0.1 (percent) of the Google Calendar user base" was ongoing.

Just before 10 a.m. PDT, Google updated the dashboard to say that a resolution was pending for an … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO--Two things Google ordinarily loves talking about, ads and data, were not on the agenda during its Google TV launch party.

Rishi Chandra, lead product manager for Google TV, deflected questions about whether Google intends to run its own advertising alongside ads already shown on regular TV or Web programs running through the Google TV software, introduced today on the Logitech Revue box. Logitech has begun selling Revues for $299, it showed off many of its capabilities during launch events in San Francisco and New York. (Check out CNET's first take).

Chandra confirmed, however, that Google is not … Read more