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In the first day of trading in shares of the Internet search engine company Google, the stock rises to above $100. After much anticipation over the public offering, Google set its initial price at $85 for Thursday's debut. NPR's Laura Sydell reports.

Ken Auletta's new book, Googled, chronicles the behemoth search engine company from the bottom up. But critic Troy Patterson says that few of the book's points are so penetrating that they couldn't be easily discovered via a quick Google query.

Google recently hit the trails with a panoramic camera called the Google Trekker. And now you can see the Grand Canyon in Google Maps. Is this a good thing?

Google has launched a new version of its search engine Web site in China. The site censors material about Tibet, human rights and other topics considered sensitive by the Chinese government. The move comes shortly after the company was praised for not complying with a U.S. federal subpoena for its records.

It joins a rare club, including Priceline.com and Seaboard, which processes hogs and turkeys. The stock climbed 14 percent on good news about the search giant's advertising business.

It sounds like a good idea: anticipating flu's spread by monitoring a region's online searches. But sometimes a sneeze is just a cold.