Alphabet Inc's Google is making progress in taking on cloud computing leaders Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp, executives said on March 8, as the search engine company stakes more of its future on the cloud as a new source of growth. At a conference in San Francisco, Google cloud computing chief Diane Greene ticked off a host of new clients, including HSBC, Colgate, Verizon and eBay. The company also announced it had acquired Kaggle, a popular platform for data scientists that could boost Google's edge in the crowded field of artificial intelligence. Despite the announcements, analysts said Google remains a distant third in the market for cloud computing, the increasingly popular practice of using remote internet servers to store, manage and process data.