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Yahoo's Earnings Message to Google: We're Bigger than You
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-18
What do Yahoo's first quarter financial results (here as a PDF) of April 18 mean to Google? For one, there's sobering reality. Yahoo executives reminded everyone listening
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Microsoft's AdCenter Gets an Update
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-18
Microsoft has alerted Web sites there's to be a 5-hour outage April 18 in order to update AdCenter, which competes with Google's AdSense and other online ad features. The updated AdCenter, online after 11 p.m. April 18, will have a number of changes, including invoices in the form of PDF
Google, Yahoo Search Ads Earn Their Spotlight
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-18
The state of online ad spending takes center stage this week as Google and Yahoo report their latest earnings. The reason for the focus on average key word prices, prices per click and other mysteries of the online ad market? The two Internet behemoths generate nearly all their revenue by
The Google-Kaboodle Connection
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-17
Three people with connections to Google are participating in a new, $3.55 million round of funding procured by the search engine Kaboodle. They are Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford University professor who
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How to Escape the Google Sandbox
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-17
While Google's never confirmed its existence, Web site operators routinely complain about the "Google sandbox." They are talking about the apparent period of sometimes years between Google
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Performance Firm Coupling with Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-14
Google has something cooking with Cognos, which provides business intelligence and corporate performance management software and services. According to a source, Cognos is set to unveil a new
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Microsoft Developing Photo Search
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-14
Microsoft this week revealed it's at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras. So rather than using a keyboard to enter an Internet search query, people
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Merrill Lynch Analyst Sees a Google Search Conflict of Interest
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-13
A financial analyst is questioning whether Google is using its features to promote its content and services, and in a way that conflicts with its advertisers'
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Cracking the Da Vinci Code at Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-13
There's a new mystery to solve for fans of "The Da Vinci Code" who also use Google's personalized home page feature. Google says it's taking part in the marketing blitz for the "Da Vinci Code" movie by conducting a contest. Each day between April 17 and May 21, a puzzle
Google Opens Its Calendar
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-13
Google Calendar is finally up and running after months in development. Some new features include being able to share calendar listings with friends, a tight integration with Google's Gmail e-mail, a
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Google Shareholders Demand Equal Voting Rights
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-12
There's a move afoot to significantly reduce the number of votes that Google co-founders Sergey Brin, Larry Page, CEO Eric Schmidt and others get to cast at Google
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Google Cracks the Whip
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-12
Every now and then, Google reminds everyone of how some of its features depend on the kindness of strangers. Examples of this can be found by visiting the blogs of Google Base, a free classifieds listing feature, and Google Talk, which is Google's version of an instant messenging app for PCs.
Vozin Communications: Google's Next Buy?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-12
Vozin Communications, which makes Talqer, seems to be the perfect future Google acquisition target. The free Talqer download, now available, lets someone use the Google Talk instant
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Google Pads Search Lead
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-11
Google continues to dominate the Internet search market, and has of late been taking market share away from Yahoo and Microsoft, according to some new data. About 60.3 percent of all Internet searches
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Microsoft Graduates Its Scholarly Search Engine
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-04-10
Microsoft is set to unveil a new Internet search engine to locate scholarly material, a source says. What Microsoft is expected to introduce April 11 is a competitor to Google
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