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This Google Map Brought to You by Coke
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-26
Welsh writer and artist David Lloyd, aka the blogger Dio Bach, believes a recent advertising experiment by Maxim Magazine outside of Las Vegas is the first of the new slew of much slicker "ground ads" to come. Loosely defined, ground ads are advertisements large enough to show up on a
Google Maps Marches On in Europe
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-26
Coincidence or not, Google has been very busy rejiggering its Google Maps in the few weeks since Yahoo introduced its first competitive mapping feature based on satellite imagery. The
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Microsoft Tries to Wallop Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-25
Microsoft's got something Google hasn't: a supposedly bleeding-edge global social network a la MySpace.com. What Microsoft unveiled April 26 is its long-awaited Wallop, a 12-person startup that's
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Firefox Toolbar Gets the Spotlight at Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-25
For some Google regulars living in California and elsewhere in the United States, the search engine of late has been using some of its nearly barren home page (www.google.com) to
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Google Maps Mashups, the European Version
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-25
European Google mashers, rev your engines. It appears Google's finally added driving directions and other street-level information to its Google Maps for Europe. Google Blogoscope first
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Google's Good Enough for Government Work
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-25
Google is adding more sales muscle to its Washington, D.C., offices, according to some new job postings that make clear its ambitions to do more business with large government agencies. The firm is seeking a head of enterprise federal sales to establish and expand business with large federal customers, a
Google's Cell Phone Sex Problem
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-24
Some new research concludes that Google Internet search requests via cell phone are mostly to find porn, and at a rate twice what Google encounters from its regular
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In Montreal, Google Tracks the Eyeball
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-24
Google plans to release the findings from the first-ever large-scale study of its mobile users' habits, plus eyeball tracking experiences and other Google research nuggets at a conference this
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Google Wins, MSN Loses in March
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-24
Nearly one in two Internet searches now takes place using a Google search engine, according to a new report from audience measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings. In March, the percentage of all Internet
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Google Maps Out Its Identity Crisis
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-21
Talk about an identity crisis: Google Local, once known as Google Maps, is changing its name back to Google Maps. This monicker madness all began in 2005. At the time, Google's online
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Google Makeover in Progress
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-21
Google confirms that it's testing a way to preview and search within the results returned by its very popular search engine. In the past few weeks, some observers have spotted a graphical element shaped like an arrowhead next to the results from using www.google.com. When clicked upon, the arrow expands
Google: Lots of Revenues, Not a Lot of Chitchat
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-20
Google honchos Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt promised they'd be short. And they were. The three top Google execs deliberately truncated their April 20 financial
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79% Revenue Gain In First Quarter For Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-20
Google's first quarter financial results are in. They can be found here. One big number to consider: revenues for the quarter fell somewhere in the middle of what analysts expected. Google's says it had $2.25 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 79 percent from the same quarter last year,
Google Calendar Courts the Mashup Crowd
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-20
Google has unveiled the eagerly anticipated program interface that lets developers combine their work with Google's new online calendar/day planner feature. Details about the Google
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Google Turns On Page Creator
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-19
Google now lets anyone with a Google e-mail account sign up for its new Page Creator feature. When last heard from, the self-publishing feature was the subject of a very brief test release Feb. 24. Each
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