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Google: All Your News Are Belong To Us?

If Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s crystal ball is good enough to predict the future five years out, here’s what we could be looking at, news delivery-wise, a scant half-decade from now. Cue the wavy lines.... more

Will Bing Be Big?

Bing a Better Way to Search from MicrosoftPerhaps the best thing we can say about Bing, Microsoft’s new foray into the search arena, is that it might just be . . . well, pretty good.  ... more

Google Gives Small Businesses Quick-and-Easy Metrics with Free Dashboard

Traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, those old-fashioned businesses with a physical address, now have even more reason to like Google: free analytics.  As reports TechCrunch, by claiming their listing profiles on Google Local, businesses now will ... more

What Do People See When They Google You?

Have you ever Googled yourself to see what is out there about you?  Or maybe someone you're dating to get some background info that maybe they're not telling you (dating 101)?  Well now Google is allowing you to control what ... more

Yahoo Bolsters BOSS

Two days after Google rolled out additional features for its Google App Engine, Yahoo has announced additional tools for Yahoo Search BOSS, reports eWeek.  BOSS, or Build Your Own Search ... more

Improving User Experience Could Hasten Adoption of Online Digital Health Records

Online digital heath records—the kind controlled by patients—have been available for years, but the trick is to get people to use them in the first place, reports the New York Times.  And aside from concerns about privacy—a significant ... more

Venture Capital, Google-Style

Not content in doing practically everything there is to do online, Google has now branched out into the venture capital business with Google Ventures, a venture capital arm of parent company Google charged with the broad-reaching ... more

Eyes Free App for G1

Two Google engineers, T.V. Raman and Charles Chen developed an app for the T-Mobile G1 the device can be used eyes free, reported the New York Times.  T.V. Raman, who is blind, says the app is not ... more

YouTube Clips ABC, ESPN

YouTube and Disney have announced a partnership that will smooth the way for ABC and ESPN content to appear on YouTube, the number one online video site.  But don’t look for any full-length ... more

Google Looks to Link TV, YouTube Advertising Businesses

Google is developing technology that would connect its TV advertising business to YouTube, giving marketers a seamless way to buy advertising space on both venues, as well as additional websites, reports the Wall Street ... more

Rethinking Free in a Down Economy

Not so long ago, you could have collected enough of those “Try AOL for Free” installation disks to shoot skeet—for free—for the rest of your life.  The move may have backfired for AOL, but in the Great Recession ... more

Sony, Google Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle

In what appears to be a direct shot at the Amazon Kindle, Sony and Google are teaming up to give users of the Sony Reader access to more than 500,000 public domain ... more

Develop It Once, Run It Anywhere, Key Theme at SWANH Mobile Application Platform Symposium

Decreasing the total cost of development and deployment . . . lowering the complexity . . . leveraging standard technologies and tools.  With hundreds of mobile phone service providers, thousands of devices, and scores of operating systems to choose from, ... more

Google to Use Behavioral Advertising to Place Display and Text Ads

Long a sideline sitter on the behavioral advertising playing field, web giant Google will now start selling display and text ads using behavioral advertising, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The practice, which places advertising on the ... more

Web Ad Research Program to be Funded by Google and WPP

Internet search ad behemoth Google and advertising communications giant WPP announced a $4.6 million, three year program to study the interplay between advertisements in traditional media and digital media in influencing consumer decisions, reports the ... more

Is Google Voice Necessary?

Google acquired GrandCentral in July 2007 and has been quiet about it since, until now.  Google has created a new and improved service, Google Voice, that was available to existing GrandCentral customers last Thursay.  The GrandCentral technology ... more

Delving into the Deep Web

Beyond the web’s surface level lies a seemingly inexhaustible wealth of data that, if tapped properly by search engines, could transform the internet as we know it, speculates Alex Wright in the New York Times.  Tapping into this ... more

Google Outage Has Some Rethinking SAAS

A recent two-hour Google mail outage is raising some concerns about Software As a Service’s reliability, reports the Wall Street Journal. “Any time there is a failure it creates concern,” said John Dohm, vice president of information ... more

Yahoo to Marketers: Search and Display Ads Are the Same Product

In a keynote address at a conference today in Orlando, FL, Yahoo executives Joanne Bradford, senior vice president of US revenue and market development, and Michael Walrath, senior vice president, encouraged marketers to stop thinking about search and ... more

Mozilla to European Commission: We’ll Help You Come Up with a Microsoft/IE Remedy

On January 15, 2009, the European Commission sent a Statement of Objections (SO) to Microsoft outlining the Commission’s preliminary view that Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to its Windows operating ... more

Google G1—A Walking Surveillance Device?

Google’s G1 smart phone, the first phone to carry Google’s Android mobile operating system, made a big splash when it was released last year, but now some consumer advocates are wondering whether ... more

Are Newspaper Ads Worth It? Google Doesn’t Think So

Google rocked the newspaper industry when it announced it would not be selling any more paper ads.  The Google Print Ads program will be terminated on February 28, 2009 after a two year run.  Google no longer sees the ... more

Google Gets Greener

This week, Google released data indicating its data centers are getting greener. Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations, announced that the average power and cooling overhead in any Google-designed data center with an ... more

Could Google’s GDrive be Real?

Google watchers everywhere are abuzz that the long-rumored GDrive—an online storage arrangement that could store all of a user’s data—may indeed become a reality, sooner rather than later. Igniting the current flare-up of rumors was a discovery by Google watcher ... more

Gmail Available Offline, But Not Really

Tuesday Google announced Gmail is now available offline, reported the New York Times.  My first thought was, "How is this possible?". Apparently a "downfall" of email is the fact that documents aren't available when you don't have an ... more

Hard Economic Times Make for More In-Your-Face Online Advertising

The Wall Street Journal reports that hard economic times might be giving online advertisers the upper hand when it comes to forcing online sites to overlook the unwritten standards that govern what’s proper when it comes to online ... more

Google Searches and Carbon Footprints: How Much Energy are You Using?

Every second of every day, Google searches are answering people’s queries, whether those questions be who won the best actress award at the Golden Globes, or how much does and elephant weigh.  Google serves up answers to those burning ... more

Microsoft Victory over Google in Verizon Deal

Microsoft announced a five year deal with Verizon Wireless at the Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday.  Internet Explorer will be the default search engine on Verizon cell phones as opposed to Microsoft's rival Google.  This news comes at ... more

Microsoft Internet Explorer Loses Market Share in Last Half of 2008

Long the dominant web browser for Microsoft Windows users, Microsoft’s flagship Internet Explorer web browser saw erosion in total users during the last half of 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to ... more

Google AdWords 101

Google is the most popular search engine in the United States, accounting for a little more than 61% of all online searches.  (Nielsen Online).  Capitalizing on the success of its search service, Google launched AdWords in 2000, giving advertisers ... more

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