Google has brought out a translator toolkit that combines the company's machine translation technology with online tools for manually editing content.

Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor of computer science known best for advising Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, passed away today unexpectedly.

Microsoft's advertisement for its new Bling, er Bing , search engine seems to be blaming Google for the collapse of the world economy.

The company has stressed that Chrome 2 , which it announced on Thursday, is not a major release with a host of updates. It is named '2' mainly as a metric to help Google keep track of changes internally, it said. Chrome 2 does, however, include some new features and a speed boost.

In what many term as an yet another example of an innovative application from Google , the search giant is planning to introduce a mobile phone application named Star Droid which is designed to help people identify planets and stars. It seems that Google is not satisfied by merely allowing its users to track their position on ground but is literally allowing them to track stars based on their location by using GPS technology.