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Congressman Pushes For Another Google Probe Late last month, the FTC ended its investigation of Google's collection of sensitive WiFi data, choosing not to pursue any formal reprimands or punishments at that time. However, it looks like not everyone in the U.S. government is ready to let the matter go, as Representative Joe Barton has made some accusatory comments.
Google News Gets More Social By and large, people like the same things. Given a choice between a New York Times bestseller and 300 pages of unpublished scribblings, most folks will enjoy the first option, for example. So Google may be onto something as it appears to be testing "shared by" indicators for news articles.
Yahoo Suffers Ill-Timed Outage Rumor has it that AOL, with the help of a venture capital firm or two, is interested in buying Yahoo. Unfortunately for Yahoo shareholders, the company's main property took a bit of a dive yesterday afternoon, suffering an embarrassing outage for the better part of an hour.
Yahoo Reclaims Number Two Spot In Online Video A company that's notorious for not doing well in the search race has at least scored a victory in another field. New data from comScore indicates that, in terms of online video properties' unique viewers, Yahoo has taken back second place from Facebook.
Paid Search Report Credits Google With More Gains Dominant, dominanter, dominantest? It's almost starting to feel like new words will be required in order to describe Google's share of the paid search market, as a fresh report from SearchIgnite puts the search giant in a stronger position than ever.
Yahoo Introduces New Set Of Search Enhancements Even as the Yahoo-Bing deal nears completion, Yahoo has issued a reminder that it hasn't dropped out of the search race. In fact, it's still running full speed, with the company announcing five different sorts of improvements yesterday.
Twitter Announces New Search Architecture The 2011 Ford Mustang represents a vast improvement over the 2010 car; it's better to the point that the 2011 V6 is almost as fast as the 2010 V8. But the different vehicles look almost identical, and it's in a similar manner that Twitter's search engine was recently upgraded in a big way.
Google Updates Android Driving Aid Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt horrified car guys everywhere by suggesting that cars should drive themselves, and that it was in fact "a bug that cars were invented before computers." But an updated Car Home for Android tool nonetheless looks like something drivers should welcome.
Bing Updates BlackBerry App It seems like most conversations about mobile phones turn to either the iPhone or the Android operating system these days, and most forecasts indicate that Android will become dominant in less than five years. Still, the BlackBerry is an important platform, and Bing's taken that into account with some upgrades to its BlackBerry app.
Google Creates Site To Showcase New Products At the moment, Google has a market cap of about $165 billion, and put simply, the search giant never lets anybody forget it, churning out new products and services at a rate that's hard to process. So now, supposedly for the sake of helping onlookers keep up, the company's launched a site called Google New.
Google Opens Up About Government Requests, Censorship Governments interact with Google on a regular basis, and this has been known to make both privacy groups and users nervous. Now, to address those fears, Google's taken the unusual step of broadcasting when its service is interrupted or a government requests information.
Bing Crafts ''More Beautiful Search Experience In IE9'' For years, screensavers have been popular, with people spending lots of time seeking out the prettiest ones - never mind that they only activate when a computer's idle. Microsoft may be onto something, then, with what it's described as "a more beautiful search experience in IE9."
Google Acquires Video Mapping Startup A company that specializes in video mapping technology is now owned by a certain search giant. Quiksee revealed yesterday that it's been purchased by Google, although the two companies have kept many other details under wraps.
Google Instant Debuts Give Google another tally mark under the "Wins" heading. Yesterday, the search giant unveiled an important new technology that it calls Google Instant, and this tech promises to make the search process faster and more intuitive than ever.
Yahoo Asks Advertisers To Make MSFT Transition Advertisers with Yahoo Search Marketing accounts can - and should - start thinking about making a transition to the Microsoft Advertising adCenter. Yesterday, Yahoo made it possible for advertisers to take the first steps, and the company would like for everything to be wrapped up by the end of October.
Google Acquires Another Social Property A search giant's move into social media appeared to continue yesterday with the acquisition of SocialDeck. Google paid an undisclosed amount for the company, which specializes in social games and the mobile experience.
Google Gets Hands On Like.com Look for Google's product search (and maybe plain old image search) capabilities to improve in the near future. Late Friday, Like.com, a site that specializes in visual shopping, announced that it was acquired by the search giant for an unspecified amount.
McAfee Identifies Most Dangerous (Search) Celebs People who are obsessed with celebrities may want to take a break, at least when it comes to some of the individuals named in a recent McAfee report. Yesterday, McAfee released some facts about dangerous search results and their association with certain celebs.
Google's Market Share Slips In July Another report regarding the search market has arrived, and if comScore's to be believed, it's more accurate than ever. Unfortunately for a certain search giant, it looks like Google lost a bit of market share on a month-over-month basis.
Google, DirecTV Strike Ad Partnership Google's shift into the realm of television continued today with a deal with DirecTV. The search giant will now handle ads on 11 different channels for the company, and several of them are channels that the average person will have heard of or even watched on a regular basis.
Google Enables Mobile Search History Feature It's not hard to bookmark an important page, and often, a person's memory also makes it possible to retrace steps online. But there are times when a little assistance in finding something again becomes necessary, and Google's stepped in to help mobile users with a new search history option.
Security Firm Labels Google ''King Of Malware'' The search engine that something like 65 percent of Americans favor is also liable to be number one in malware authors' minds. Security specialist Barracuda Networks reported this week that it's possible to find more malware using Google than using Bing, Yahoo, and Twitter together.
Google Adds Web Timing Tool To Chrome 6 Not too long ago, Google announced that it would begin factoring page load times into its search rankings. Now, there's added evidence of the importance of that figure, as a "Web Timing" tool has been integrated into Chrome 6.
Google Looks At Gaming To Pursue Facebook Like it or not, Facebook is now almost synonymous with games like FarmVille, and that means a would-be competitor will need addictive casual games in order to be successful. Google hasn't missed this fact, either, with reports indicating that the search giant wants to establish gaming partnerships as it moves into social networking.
Google Aims To Double Rate Of Chrome Releases The browser that should represent a stepping stone to a new operating system is going to starting cycling through releases at a faster pace. Google now intends to distribute an updated, stable version of Chrome every six weeks, which will be about twice as fast as before.
Google Conducts Major Image Search Upgrade We'll begin this article by admitting that Google's probably given the folks behind Bing reason to complain about copycats. But Google Images has undergone a significant overhaul, and even if some of the new features aren't original, the image search engine is definitely much-improved.
Foursquare CEO Says Talks With Search Leaders Underway One or more of the top three search engines could soon enter a partnership with Foursquare, according to the startup's founder and CEO. Dennis Crowley recently indicated that talks are underway and going reasonably well.
Google Exec Argues Against Search Neutrality Compared to many other issues related to Internet regulation, not a lot is said about search neutrality, and implementation seems rather far-fetched. Google isn't taking any chances, though, with Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, writing a special article to argue against it.
Google Maps Send-To-Car Service Expands If Google has its way, the days of fumbling for a sheet of paper, figuring out how many of 18 turns you've already taken, and then squinting to read some small text - all while driving at 60 MPH - will soon be gone. The Google Maps Send-To-Car service grew to encompass more than 20 different vehicle brands yesterday.
Bing Makes Big Search Gains In June The sixth month of 2010 was a great one for Bing, according to the latest stats from Experian Hitwise. The research company determined that Bing's share of the search market rose seven percent on a month-over-month basis, while none of its competitors fared half as well.
Google Updates YouTube Mobile Site Never mind all the apps that have been (and will be) made available; when it comes to watching videos on a cell phone, Google wants people to deal with it directly. And to that end, Google debuted a new and improved version of the YouTube Mobile site late yesterday.
MySpace Search Talks Said To Involve Google, Yahoo, MSFT It's no secret that MySpace isn't doing well in comparison to Facebook. Put it next to another site, though - say Twitter, Bebo, or even CNN.com - and it still looks great. The identity of MySpace's search provider is rather important, then, and the latest report indicates that its options are wide open.
Google News Overhauled With Personalization Options In the past, the value of Google News has been tough to judge. Posts from random bloggers have been mixed in with articles from top-notch newspapers, and the pages-long layout required a lot of scrolling. It's gotten better over time, though, and Google's aiming to make it better again now with improved personalization.
Google Moves Social Search Forward With Buzz The concept of social search is promising, in that the average person is indeed more likely to care about the thoughts and opinions of his friends than those of random individuals. And Google's now advanced social search a bit by bringing Google Buzz into the equation.
Google Retreats In China Ahead Of License Renewal Attempt Early this year, Google took a stand against censorship in China and announced the possibility that it would shut down Google.cn. Today, that proved unlikely. Google has said it will compromise an already-ineffective solution to improve the odds of renewing its license in the country.
Bing Improves Mobile Experience Using Bing from a mobile browser just became a much more pleasant - and efficient - experience. Microsoft introduced a handful of upgrades yesterday designed to make m.bing.com work well enough that people shouldn't have to bother downloading a separate app.
Microsoft Tries Out New Mobile Ad Solution As smart phones become more and more ubiquitous, mobile search will become more and more common. And Microsoft - like many tech companies - wants to profit from this trend, so the corporation began testing a mobile ad solution with Hyatt, Quiznos, and a firm called Geodelic this week.
YouTube Video Editor Debuts Most experts agree that "universal search" (search that goes beyond 10 blue links) is the way of the future, and as it becomes more popular, videos will start showing up on the first page of search results more often. It's potentially rather important, then, that Google's introduced the YouTube Video Editor.
Google Unveils Page Speed For Ads And Trackers Study after study has shown that people often abandon sites when pages don't load within a few seconds. It's likely that slow-loading ads drive many folks to use ad blockers, too. Site owners - and perhaps the average visitors - should be glad to hear that Google introduced a tool for Page Speed for ads, then.
Google Completes Caffeine Update Google's new Web indexing system - called Caffeine - is ready to go, and the changes are significant enough that everyone from the most specialized SEO expert to an elderly person looking up knitting patterns may notice. Google promised "50 percent fresher results for web searches."
Yahoo Set For Facebook Integration The act of using different Yahoo products will soon become a lot more social for many people. Yahoo announced today that it's moving forward with a form of Facebook integration, increasing the amount of back-and-forth that will take place between sites this week.
Yahoo Names New CTO A rather important position at Yahoo is no longer empty. Yesterday, Chief Architect Raymie Stata - who's spent about six years with the company - was given the title "Chief Technology Officer and Vice President."
Google Search For Mobile Connects With Apps Don't be surprised if developers start speaking more fondly of Google over the next few days, weeks, or even months. They're likely to be earning a bit more money since Google has started teaching Google Search for mobile to return mobile app results.
Google Launches Calculator To Promote Apps Google's products and services may soon establish footholds in many more companies. The search giant has introduced a tool that it's calling the "Go Google Cloud Calculator" in order to highlight the benefits of using Google Apps and all that it involves.
Android Found To Be Doing Well In The U.S., China Google's mobile operating system is doing rather well in certain parts of the world, according to a new report from AdMob. AdMob found that Android devices are now almost as common as iPhones in the U.S., in fact, and have surpassed the iPhone in China.
UK Authority Opts Not To 'Declare War' On Google However bad things get for Google in other parts of the world, the highest-ranking privacy authority in the UK may at least leave the company alone. Christopher Graham said today that he doesn't want to "declare war" on Google over its Wi-Fi data collection screwup.
Quintura Receives Funding For Mobile Visual Search A company that claims to have blazed some trails in terms of visual search now has the money to make the same sort of results available to mobile users. Quintura, which manages offices in both Russia and Virginia, received $1 million in funding to achieve this changeover.
Google Admits WiFi Data Collection Mistake An old publicists' trick is to release negative information on a Friday afternoon because a lot of people - including reporters - will be wrapping things up for the week and pay less attention to the news over the weekend. And whether the timing was intentional or not, Google announced late on Friday that it had collected payload data from open WiFi networks.
Google Improves Responses With Short Answers Searches for simple facts can often become multi-step processes: you conduct the search, find a likely-looking result, click the "cached" link, and then scroll around seeking a bunch of highlighted words. Google's now trying to make this simpler with short answers.
Google Serves Side Of Navigation Options As much as you might expect inspiration to flow in the opposite direction - most reports concerning the search market pretty well prove that one company's doing better than all of the others - Google has taken a page from Bing and Yahoo's books, introducing a side panel of navigation options yesterday.
Google Assembles Supporters Of AdMob Deal Rumor has it that the FTC will vote today to either approve or block Google's acquisition of AdMob, and perhaps in preparation for this, Google's tried again to show that the deal's a fair one. Or, to be more accurate, Google's actually highlighted how many other people think the deal's a grand idea.
Google Upgrades Android, iPhone Image Search Thanks to some new moves on a certain search giant's part, the owners of Android devices and iPhones should find their image search experience much improved. Google Image Search for mobile received several significant tweaks earlier this week.
Google Adds Twitter Search 'Replay' Option People who won't watch a movie after missing the first 15 minutes - or, for a better comparison, choose to read every single feed item on Facebook rather than just the highlights - might appreciate a new feature Google's rolling out. It will allow users to view tweets from specific periods of time.
Google Acquires Visual Search Startup Sites and apps designed to help people identify music lyrics have become quite popular over the years; for music lovers, they can act as invaluable aids. And now, Google's acquired a company that performs the same sort of service for a more visual crowd, helping them identify works of art.
Google Gets Into Censorship Scuffle In Australia Google's standoff with China - fascinating as it is - seemed somewhat inevitable. A company using "do no evil" as its motto just didn't appear compatible with an oppressive, communist state. What's arguably more interesting is Google's dispute with Australia, which is growing rather serious.
Possible Google Exit Positions Baidu For Success In China It's no secret that Google's stock hasn't been in good shape lately; indeed, since it announced the possibility of "a new approach to China" in early January, the search giant's shares have lost 6.65 percent of their value. However, Baidu, which is the dominant search company in China, stands to gain quite a lot from this mess.
Big TV Events Shown To Benefit Search Sites Fair warning: watching television with a computer at hand is somewhat dangerous. Before you know it, you can be IMDBing actors, looking up songs, or just plain checking your email - and missing important details on the bigger of the two screens. But new stats show that this sort of multitasking is benefiting search engines.
Google's Real-Time Results Impress Few So Far Not too long ago, Google began to deliver real-time results in response to users' searches, pulling up-to-the-minute information from sites like MySpace and Twitter. The move was interesting, innovative, and, according to a new study, not at all well-received. Digital marketing agency Oneupweb performed an eye-tracking study to...
Google Introduces Stars As Bookmark Substitutes When a site really, really matters to an individual, he or she usually gives it a dedicated space on a toolbar. People can bookmark things with little effort, too, and the human brain is even still used on occasion to store info. But for some reason, Google's decided to provide users with another option, and so now, search results can be starred.
Yahoo CEO Doesn't Favor Google Antitrust Investigations Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has taken the high road as more and more antitrust regulators start to display an interest in Google's practices. Rather than cheer on the investigations - or instigate new ones - Bartz has stayed mostly neutral on the matter, perhaps even supporting her biggest rival a little.
Google Delves Into Status Updates From Facebook First MySpace, then Twitter . . . now, Google's bringing Facebook into its real-time results, too. The effort's just a little bit underwhelming as things stand because only public status updates from Facebook Pages are involved. Facebook Pages are officially defined as being "for organizations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to ...
Potential Google Antitrust Fine Could Top $2.3 Billion It's time for everyone with a financial interest in Google to cross their fingers that the search giant won't be found guilty of abusing its dominance. It's been calculated that European Commission could fine the company as much as $2.36 billion if that occurs. To backtrack a little: Google announced earlier this week that the European Commission...
Google Recaps Real-Time And Image-Related Updates Google has a market cap of $172.5 billion right now, and as of December, had about 19,850 employees. Which is another way of suggesting that the search giant has a whole lot going on, and in case you missed them, it chose to recap some of the developments that occurred last week.
Confirmed: Super Bowl Ads Drive Online Searches Historically, the Super Bowl has been a pretty "offline" event - millions of people sit down in front of their TVs, not their computers, to watch a bunch of flesh and blood athletes run around a gigantic stadium. Still, this year's Super Bowl had a big impact on online searches. Here's the thing: as exciting as sports fans find the Super Bowl...
Yahoo Discusses Ramifications Of MSFT Deal As youve almost surely heard by now, the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice have approved the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo search deal. Whats less well-known is that Yahoos taken a few minutes to explain what effect this will have on Yahoo Search. When all is said and done " and that may not be for a while, mind you, since the companies have set the...
Bing Explores "Next Frontier" Of Spatial Search When they're not looking at computer screens, people don't just depend on text to help them navigate the world. The look of a restaurant can convey much more about its quality than whatever's written on the sign out front, for example. So Bing has attempted to forge ahead in terms of what it's calling "spatial search." Bing doesn't want to stop after directing users to...
Google Goes To School With UC Berkeley Students at the University of California, Berkeley can now make the claim that their higher education is brought to them by Google. That's because Google Video is "delivering educational content, including course lectures and symposia, free of charge" as "part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world."
Google Promotes Power Conservation (But Not In Cars) Google has a new concern - saving electricity. They're not just trying to alter things within the sprawling Google complex, though. In a new white paper, the company "is calling on the computer industry to create a simpler and more efficient power supply standard."
Publishers Unveil Potential Solution To Search Engine Woes Publishers have begun to work on a project that just might solve their recent search engine-related problems. Designated ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol), it would allow "online content providers to systematically provide information about access and use of their content to news aggregators and others on the web."
Google's Page Creator, Book Search Receive Updates Google recently expanded two of its services. The Google Page Creator now allows users to create multiple sites (as opposed to the previous limit of one), and Google Book Search has, in effect, moved into the physical world.
Searchfeed, Others Intend To Find Lost Children Searchfeed.com has teamed up with UnitingTheWeb, Inc. and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The product of this joint venture is rather interesting - "a toolbar that leverages the power of Internet search to help locate missing children."
Google Continues Its Slide In China According to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), Google's not doing so well. A number of users are jumping ship, and going straight to Baidu, Google's biggest Chinese competitor.
New Google Tool Offers AdWords Previews A new Google feature was recently noticed: you can test how an ad will appear in various locations. "We've heard your feedback and now have a tool for you to use to preview your ads no matter where they're targeted," said Google, describing the new product on InsideAdWords.
Steve Irwin, Tennis, And Various Blunders Get Zeitgeist Nods The top gaining search query for the week ending September 4 shouldn't come as a surprise - everyone's favorite Australian, the late Steve Irwin, nabbed that spot. Much of the rest of the Zeitgeist was vaguely sports-related, with an emphasis on tennis. A couple of "slip-ups" also made the list.
Google Click-To-Call Surfaces In The UK Google's Click-To-Call feature, introduced in the U.S. some time ago, has been made available to our British friends. Certain sponsored ads now have a small green telephone icon next to them - click on it, and you're informed that "Google can call your phone now and connect you to this company."
Brazil Gives Google A Deadline The date is set for the Google/Brazil showdown - the Brazilian government wants Google to hand over the Orkut data it seeks within fifteen days. Google will face some very hefty fines if it chooses not to cooperate.
Ireland Ditches Google, Embraces Map24 In the Emerald Isle, Google is not king. Google Maps, at least, may have been overthrown - an entity known as Map24 has received some very positive attention lately.
An 'Online Lie Detector' For Search The Japanese government intends to create what one newspaper described as an online lie detector that would act in accordance with a search engine. The project has been allotted a budget by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of 300 million yen, according to one source, which translates to about $2.6 million dollars.
Google, eBay Take On World (Advertising) Never mind that eBay won't allow for the use of Google Checkout. And ignore those frustrated eBay merchants who are pushing for Google to launch its own online auction service. eBay and Google are at peace with each other, and have just signed a "multi-year agreement to connect users, merchants, and advertisers around the globe."
Zeitgeist Doesn't Look On Bright Side Of Life The Zeitgeist for the week ending August 21 is not as entertaining as some previous lists have been. In fact, some entries on this Zeitgeist bring topics to mind that are distinctly unpleasant. So, for the sake of not making this article a downer, all of those will be crammed into one paragraph, while other, less unhappy subjects will be brought into focus.
Was Kiko Killed By Google? Kiko died, and it may have been Google's fault. The Kiko in question is not, thankfully, the pregnant Japanese princess, but instead a "great, dead simple calendar you can use right in your web browser." Note the word choice in that description - rather ironic now that the site has gone under.
Pontiac-Google Tie-In A Questionable Choice Behold: a silver G6 sedan against a black backdrop. Lights swirl around the car, and its "4-Panel Panoramic Roof" is demonstrated.
Google: Tibet Who? Ever heard of a little place called Tibet? You know, that disputed region that has circulated through our culture to the point that it's even been mentioned on "The Simpsons" numerous times. Well, Google (and more specifically, Google Earth) seems to have forgotten about it.
Google Service Update Fails To Excite Google's latest product update was met with less of a "hurrah" and more of a "blah" as Google Talk received a slight makeover. The most exciting thing about it is a feature that can track and chart users' musical preferences - and that feature has a few individuals concerned about privacy issues.
Yahoo CEO Speaks About Delays, Google, And Tennis On Monday, a Fortune Magazine interview with Yahoo CEO Terry Semel came out. Adam Lashinsky conducted the questioning, and he managed to get several interesting answers out of the Yahoo boss. He also found out that Semel and Rupert Murdoch are about evenly matched as tennis players.
Brazil, Bahrain Gang Up On Google? Google seems to be encountering some difficulties overseas. In Brazil, the government is attempting to force the company to disclose information on certain Orkut users.
Yahoo, MSN Get Needy Search engines seem to be having a hard time letting users go. If you search for "google" through MSN, the top portion of the screen fills not with results, but with a suggestion. "Want to search the Web? Try MSN Search," it offers. Yahoo appears to be pulling a similar stunt.
Google Gets Into Credit Cards? As you thumb through your wallet five years from now, you might see some familiar names. Visa and Mastercard, for example. You may also see Google. The company purchased the domain name googlemastercard.com recently, igniting all sorts of speculation about what they might do with it.
Rivals Cooperate On Click Guidelines The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is going to form a Click Measurement Working Group in order to formulate Click Measurement Guidelines. Got it? In other words, they "will provide the detailed definition of a 'click' and the standard against which clicks are measured and counted including the identification of invalid clicks and/or fraudulent clicks."
False Google Crash Scares Investors Google's stock price dipped down to about $38 last week (from roughly $391). Luckily, this was a mistake, and not a catastrophic crash, but the incident was more than enough to cause concern among investors.
Google Turns A Deaf Ear A member of the Digital Point Forums was, in his (or her) words, "Adsense spanked." Google apparently warned this person to stop conducting click fraud, and then disabled the account. This person, who claims to have been unaware of the fraud, posted an e-mail conversation in which Google more or less ignored his (or her) pleas for help.
New Crop Of Google Services Sighted Tony Ruscoe, a UK developer, had a "quick go" at Google's servers, and got a wealth of information out of that small expedition. Ruscoe discovered the names of fourteen services that, as he put it, "aren't currently available to your 'real' Google account."
Google Forges Ahead With Adsense For Radio Ads, brought to you courtesy of Google, are migrating from the computer and onto the airwaves. The company best known for its search engine appears to be moving ahead with its plans to bring Adsense to radio. Detroit is being used as a test market.
KartOO's Visual Meta Search KartOO does a good job of describing its "visual meta search engine" - simply put, the thing "presents its results on a map." It's a very interesting way to see information displayed, and, more to the point, it appears to work well.
Yahoo Leads In Pre-Roll Video Streams Research and Markets (the worlds largest market research resource) has released a report on pre-roll video (video streams preceded by ad units). According to their data, Yahoo has the largest share of the streams, followed TimeWarner, Microsoft, and Viacom.
Become.com Zooms In On Desired Results Become.com is making strides forward in its "mission to help people make ideal buying decisions." Input anything into the engine, and it will offer back results classified as product reviews, buying guides, discussion forums, or product details. Become has dubbed this filtering action "Search Zoom."
Zeitgeist Takes A Turn For The Darker The Google Zeitgeist was more bleak than usual this week, with several death- and violence-related incidents making the list. It's not all depressing, though - there's still a fair mixture of more upbeat (or just plain random) items.
Amnesty Int'l Attacks Search Companies On China Amnesty International is pretty angry with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. The human rights organization has put out a report blasting the three search engines for how they've handled their operations in China. Yahoo was named as the worst of the group.
Google A Challenger In Search Enterprise Market Google is offering Microsoft some heavy competition in the search enterprise market. That's what an iTWire poll indicated, anyway - 88 percent of respondents said that yes, Google is "a serious threat" in this area. Apparently they didn't listen to Microsoft's Kevin Turner when he claimed, "We're not going to let Google win in the enterprise space."
Google Having Issues In The UK The good people who have brought us Radiohead, Mr. Bean, and the Lotus car company are not being brought their Google. Not reliably, anyway. Users in the UK have been reporting on-and-off instances in which they cannot access various Google sites and services.
Google Video Expands Overseas Google Video is growing. Although this offering has not been among Google's most popular projects, it is now set to launch in eight new country-specific versions. Most of the focus will be on European nations, although Canada will also get its own site.
Google Grants Wish, Establishes Goodwill Pretty much everyone regards Google as one of the "nicer" Internet companies out there. From their "do no evil" days forward, they just seem friendlier than a lot of other corporations. Now, Google has really convinced one blogger of their kind disposition.
Google News Yields Spam Google News, while extremely useful, doesn't seem to have all the kinks worked out just yet; obvious spam still turns up among the search results, sometimes even at the very top of the list. Jeremy Wagstaff found an example of this recently.
A Pirate-Centric Zeitgeist The Google Zeitgeist for the week ending July 10 is perhaps even more scattershot than usual, but there is a focus on the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie. A couple of madmen come into play, as well.
Ze Weekly Zeitgeist The Google Zeitgeist for the week ending July 4 has been released. This one, like most, contains an array of unrelated topics, people, and things. There's a vague focus on sports, though, particularly soccer and tennis.
Google Makes Arrangement With Sundance As if Google didn't already have enough going on, they've joined hands with the Sundance Film Festival.
Google (And Google-Like) Odds And Ends Google has released its own version of Microsoft Passport. The product was given the catchy title of Account Authentication Proxy for Web-Based Applications. The performance of the search engine giants stock also drew a bit of attention. And an online retailer named Gmarket, which has nothing to do with Google, made headlines.
Beware Search Engine Ranking Scams Do you want your site to be among the first 20 results on a search engine? The response to that is likely yes.
Baidu Gets Into Blogging Baidu.com, China's leading Internet search engine, has announced that it will open its own blog service on July 13. Called Baidu Space, it is intended to compete with the blog offerings of Microsoft and Google.
The Jellyfish "Buying Engine" Jellyfish.com is claiming to be a new kind of search engine, which it dubs the Internets first buying engine. The site, in beta form, already offers 1000s of stores for users to look through. But its biggest draw is the lure of cash back.
Search Engine ROI Surges A study conducted by the Performics arm of Doubleclick found that search engine marketing sales jumped 70 percent year-over-year in the first financial quarter. Campaign size and cost grew 40 percent each, for comparison. This amounts to the best search marketing return-on-investment in over a year.
Google Ads Cause Lawsuit For Yahoo Search engines have been sued time and time again over the sale of advertisements based on trademarked keywords. To resolve these cases, Google and Yahoo took different approaches, with the former holding out and the latter settling quickly. Now, a strange thing has come to pass: Yahoo is being sued over its Google ads.
Watch Television With Google Google is working on delivering personalized Internet content on the basis of your tastes in television. And Microsoft, one of the search engine giant's main adversaries, was granted a patent about one month ago on technology that is intended to accomplish roughly the same thing.
Google Book Search In Trouble - Again The Google Book Search, formerly known as Google Print, is ruffling feathers yet again. Publishers spoke out against the project during the All Party Internet Group's report on digital rights management.
Yahoo Launches New Ad System Yahoo has a new ad system, and the search engine company is quite pleased with itself about it. The innovative system promises to let advertisers target their audience not only by what keywords they type...
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