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Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-08
John Battelle made noise about this last night, and now the AP has the story: Google has hired Amazon search chief Udi Manber. Amazon's A9 is replacing Manber with David Tennenhouse, who
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Gmail + Gtalk = Next Step in Separate Internet Plan
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-07
Over on the Intermedia blog, I've got some conjecture about why Google's merging Gmail and Gtalk. On the surface, it looks like Google is driving users to Gtalk by 1) embedding it in
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PayPal Prepares for Google Challenge
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-06
The Wall Street Journal is reporting (no pay wall) more details on Google's online payment service, GBuy. But PayPal must now contend with Google. The Mountain View, Calif., Web-search giant,
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The Google Phone: The Next Big Thing?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-05
The "deck", in cell phone speak, is the features menu that appears after turning on the phone's Internet connection. Now comes a report warning cell phone operators better not let Google get its
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Google Enemies List Update
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-02
The World Association of Newspapers has made it official: a lot of newspapers hate Google too. Like a lot of people in the news business, WAN is irked at how news outfits never see a penny of the ad revenues that companies like Google generate by redistributing their hard work.
A Minute With Alec Muffett
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-02
Muffett found a rather easy way around the censorship software Google's using on its newest search engine in China. EWEEK'S GOOGLE WATCH: How did you figure out all you needed to do was enter search terms in capital letters? Was the cap key stuck and you didn't notice? Muffett "A
The Cell Phone Effect
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-02
Perhaps Google's Billionaire Boys Club ought to seek out advice from Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia. He's also running a company that's spoiled investors with incredible balance sheet after
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Blacklist Me!
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-01
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has added a $20,000 pool and spa a $300,000 garage with basement, a $200,000 fence and retaining wall, and a $4,000 accessory structure to his home, which sits on a recently merged two acre lot. Gotta keep up with the Joneses; houses in Schmidt's neighborhood
Google Doesn't Go To Congress
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-01
Google sent a letter rather than make a personal appearance at today's Congressional Human Rights Caucus. It seems Google, Yahoo and others support industry guidelines to rely on when operating in
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A Capital Idea In China
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-01
With the postscript "Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens," the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google Inc.'s censorship of its new Chinese search engine results. The trick -
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Dialing Up A Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-31
Google says its newly-discovered partnership with a Net phone provider is only to test a single feature known as click-to-call. But there's much more to voice over Internet Protocol's (VOIP) magic. It just seems
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A Few Minutes With Larry, Sergey and Eric
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-31
Here are snippets from Google's fourth quarter earnings conference call, featuring co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page plus Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt. Operating System,
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Google Caught In Napster Canoodle?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-31
The New York Post reports Google's interested in buying or partnering with online music seller Napster, Inc. The report adds to the specluation that Google is moving aggressively to put its powerful brand behind an online music selling service. Perhaps the Post should have played this story on its gossip
Dude, You're Getting A Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-30
Dell Inc. says it has begun testing a heretofore unannounced partnership with Google. That was until Nancy Adzentoivich of SearchViews found this interesting Web site. The picture suggests a hybrid of
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Google's New Toolbar Goes To The Office
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-30
Google's latest Web browser toolbar is the first time the Internet search provider has targeted that particular feature at enterprises. The free Google Toolbar for Enterprise beta contains
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