In shake-up, Google tries to hold off new threats - Yahoo! News
SAN FRANCISCO – Google is richer than ever, but it's not as cool as it once was.
Facebook boasts 500 million members who share 30 billion links, notes and photos each month — data that Google's search engine can't completely index. It's so influential that 26-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg was just named Time's person of the year, and a movie about the company's early days is a contender for best picture at the Oscars.
Twitter, Groupon and Foursquare, all hard-charging and potentially game-changing services, are additional thorns in Google's side, raising worries that the online search leader may be losing the competitive edge that turned it into the Internet's most powerful company.
Making Google hip and nimble again will be the priority as Larry Page, one of the two Stanford University students who founded the company in a garage in 1998, prepares to reclaim the CEO job in a shake-up that surprised Silicon Valley.
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Ortutay reported from New York. AP Technology Writer Jessica Mintz in Seattle and AP Technology Writer Rachel Metz in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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