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Google is betting that a giant reorganisation into a new company called Alphabet is the right one to take Google’s various companies to the next level.

Google seems unstoppable. The massive growth in the use of smartphones has seen the company’s revenues from mobile advertising skyrocket.

Vertical search website operator Mitula has commenced trading on the ASX with a $153 million capitalisation after completion of an IPO which raised $24.4 million.

With the rest of November and an entire month of 2014 still to go, and with Australia going through the sorrow of cricket legend Phil Hughes tragically passing on the day Yahoo7’s report was issued, maybe Yahoo7 should wait until sometime in mid or even late December to issue what is otherwise a fascinating report on its annual search trend data.

Open source pioneer Mozilla has signed a five year deal with Fading Internet giant Yahoo which will mean Microsoft’s Bing will replace Google as Firefox’s search engine, at least in the US.

From the first tweet in 2006 through to today, you can now search through all tweets ever tweeted, which should send the flock aflutter.

Google is making a move to make its search results less spammy, and it seems online deals website RetailMeNot is the first company to feel the heat as its shares plummeted today.

The company with the famous motto 'don't be evil', Google, has been fined $1.4 million for 'serious violations of users' privacy' in Spain.

Queenslanders will now be able to find their way around the southeast part of the state a little easier today, with Google turning on its 'transit' function for Google Maps.

Web giant Google has announced a new service that will link experts with advice-seekers via video for free or paid advice.

Google has announced a number of new services in a targeted effort to protect news organisations and human rights groups from cyber effects and, more broadly, 'free expression' on the Internet.

Google has made some big changes to its search algorithm, codenamed 'Hummingbird', the first big upgrade for three years.

Google has suffered its second outage in as many months, with Gmail and Google Docs and experiencing some serious turbulence today.

Microsoft has revamped its Bing search engine, both cosmetically and under the hood, to take the fight to Google.

Yahoo!7 has announced it will be making "a small number" of redundancies in Australia, after revealing it will be partnering with Google in Australia for some of its searches.

The way you use Facebook is set to change, with the social giant releasing its Graph Search feature to users this week.

A little bit of history finally died today, with Yahoo announcing the grisly end of AltaVista.

Mitt Romney's attempt to reach America's mothers by having ads appear when people undertake specific Google searches went embarrassingly off the rails with the ads popping up alongside a range of 'adult' search results.

The new version of the Google Search Appliance features SharePoint support and more.

Nothing is forever, and Google is pulling down the shutters on another batch of products and services.