http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/ en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 /google/3457858.htm Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Mountain View, California-based Google shared his outlook for the Internet search leader in a Wednesday interview during which he spoke about the company's plans for its YouTube video sharing site and other initiatives. /google/3457798.htm Internet search leader Google announced plans Wednesday to greatly expand its Mountain View, California headquarters onto a portion of the adjacent National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center, beginning in 2013. /google/3457774.htm Google has added new features to an existing custom search service for businesses' public Web sites and has renamed the service to Google Site Search. /google/3457693.htm Google has opened up its free simplified Web site creation tool called Google Sites, which was first launched in February for business customers, Google announced late Wednesday. /google/3457618.htm Google has released a preview version of Friend Connect, a free service it hopes will make the Mountain View, California-based company a key hub for easily sharing information from social networking Web sites such as Facebook with virtually any other site. /google/3457591.htm Google plans to make increased profitability at its YouTube video-sharing Web site the top priority during the rest of 2008, brought about by new advertising techniques for the service, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday. /google/3457534.htm Google has expanded its custom user interface for Apple Computer's popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices to include users in 33 countries using 16 different languages, and added better support for its news aggregation and Google Apps Web applications to the Apple devices. /google/3457402.htm Google today announced strong earnings led by first quarter gross revenue of $5.19 billion, exceeding forecasts with an increase of 42 percent over the same quarter in 2007, and an increase in net profit of 31 percent, results that are likely to help ease recent Wall Street concerns that Google has become more susceptible to the economic downturn. /google/3457366.htm San Francisco-based online business software maker Salesforce.com Inc. has expanded a partnership with Internet search giant Google, allowing its sales and marketing software to more easily integrate with Google's Web-based application suite, Salesforce announced Monday. /google/3457354.htm Google and its chief executive Eric E. Schmidt have hired the Qatalyst Group and its leader Frank P. Quattrone, who was cleared of obstruction of justice charges last year, to help advise Google regarding the two-month-old Microsoft battle for control of Yahoo.