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Google is teasing us with a promise of "big announcements" tomorrow regarding Google TV.                             "Get ready for Monday, we have some big announcements!" the Web giant cryptically teased late Saturday from its  Facebook page . Google representatives did not immediately respond to requests for more information, so it looks like we will have to wait until tomorrow to see what the company has up its sleeve. Perhaps the company will take the wraps off consumer gear the company is reportedly developing. The company is working on a home entertainment device that would "stream music wirelessly throughout the home" and be marketed under Google's name, according to a  Wall Street Journal report  last week. Google has dabbled with consumer products before and has met with mixed results. Google TV is software intended to power smart TVs and other Web-connected devices but that ...

Google's infographic on the fight against SOPA. Google's homepage today shows a thick black censorship stamp across its colorful logo. And, if clicked on, it leads users to a  "End Piracy, Not Liberty" petition  that asks people to sign-on to protest the  two anti-piracy laws  to be voted on by Senate and Congress. "Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.," the petition reads. "Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late." Over the course of the day, millions of people signed onto Google's petition. "The last number we released was at 4:30pm ET," said Google spokesperson Christine Chen. "At that point we were at 4.5 million signatories and counting." This search-giant is showing that it is in lock step with hundreds of other individuals, groups, and Web sites that either sent out their ...

Microsoft has finally won second place among search engines. Carving out 15.1 percent of the market in December, Bing narrowly outstripped the 14.5 percent share eked out by Yahoo, according to data released yesterday by market researcher ComScore . Of course, Google still led the search engine market with a whopping 65 percent share. But December was the first month in which Microsoft outshone its competitor and partner Yahoo, according to a Citi analyst  cited by TechCrunch . As always, ComScore's numbers include only explicit core searches that people manually enter on a Web page. Under the hood, Microsoft and Yahoo use the same search engine technologies. But  Yahoo has been gradually shedding share  over the past year, while Bing has been soaking up more. A year ago, Yahoo's search market share was 16 percent, while Microsoft was stuck with only 12 percent. And though Google's lead has stayed firm, its share for December was slightly down from the 66...

Microsoft has struck another key patent-licensing deal in the  Android ecosystem.                                                            The software company announced today that it has inked a deal with LG that will see it license operating system patents for devices running Android and Chrome OS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LG has been relying heavily upon Android for its mobile push. At the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this week, the company showed off its new flagship device,  the LG Spectrum . The smartphone, which will be launching later this month, runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and will be upgradeable to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). "We are pleased to have built upon our longstanding relationship with LG to reach a mutually beneficial agreement," Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy gene...

Try this trend out for size: Google is abandoning search There has been a huge maelstrom about  Google integrating Google+ into its search links . And it all misses the point. Twitter and others are complaining that Google is throwing its massive 65% plus market share weight around and quashing smaller competitors. The reason Twitter and others are so threatened is that the pattern of shared links within Google+ provides a decent enough indicator as to what links are interesting. What's important is what's trending, and algorithms can get a sense of that with just a subset of everything that's getting shared on the Web.  The most interesting aspect of Google's move, however, is its tacit acknowledgement that its stalwart search links are largely irrelevant and might as well be replaced with social results. Google search results are  essentially gamed results  produced by search optimizers. In other words, the search results that we supposedly value so highly are t...

The week has been a rough one for Google, and it's ending on a particularly embarrassing note.                               Nelson Mattos, vice president for product and engineering in Europe and emerging markets, apologized for               the improper use of a Kenyan company's database and misrepresentation to potential customers.   First, the company's new Google+ search feature  raises the ire  of some people and then  prompts a complaint to the FTC . Then Google Executive Chairman  Eric Schmidt is forced to defend the fragmentation , I mean "differentiation," in the  Android market that even Google partners acknowledge is an issue. And now, shame-faced Google executives are publicly apologizing for some shenanigans that involve their team in Kenya. Executives at Mocality, an online business directory in Kenya, are accusing ...

Chrome's privacy controls. Google's Chrome security team unveiled yesterday its guiding principles on  how they build a safer browser . The manifesto declares  seven key guidelines for Chrome security . The first one, "Don't get in the way," both echoes Google's unofficial motto, "Don't be evil," and reflects what many Windows security vendors have learned the hard way about keeping people safe. If security negatively affects performance, users will look to alternatives. For a browser which has built its user base on speed, sluggish response times have the potential to wreak great havoc. "It's great to see invisibility and automatic background updates as the first principal. Good security is transparent and inescapable," said Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer at Veracode. "The less security decisions that involve the user the better. Every security decision made by the user is a chance that something with be postponed ...