Google co-founder Larry Page bought himself a luxury yacht last month, for a reported €35 million ($45 million). Page bought the swank yacht called Senses last month from rich New Zealand businessman Sir Douglas Myers

The Google Merchant Blog announced that Google Product Search has started to work directly with suppliers and manufacturers to obtain the product descriptions, pictures and specifications directly from the source…

Posted by randfish There’s no doubt that mobile and, by extension, local search is hot.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: European Commission Wants 7-Year Limit On Google’s Digitization At a hearing Monday in Brussels, the European Commission issued a report calling for a… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

At a hearing Monday in Brussels, the European Commission issued a report calling for a 7-year limit on exclusivity deals that Google and other companies are signing with libraries and other cultural institution to digitize their material. At the end of seven years, other groups would be able to use… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google today released a new “faster and smarter” version of image search app Google Goggles for Android. In addition to boasting better barcode/QR scanning and recognition of print ads in newspapers and magazines, Goggles 1.3 also solves Sudoku puzzles. Click to read the rest of this post…

Google Goggles will be the death of Sudoku.

On Saturday, Google Bangladesh appeared to have been hacked. When some users went to the Google site…

Seventy-seven percent of American adults oppose government regulation of search engine results, and frequent Internet users oppose it most strongly.