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Reading over Google's Shoulder
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-22
Google Reader now lets you share. Introduced in October, 2005, Google Reader is a one-stop Internet site offering access to content from other Web sites, RSS (really simple syndication)
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A Thousand Points of Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-21
The Google War of 2025 is catalyzed later this year when Sergey Brin and Larry Page have a brilliant new advertising idea. As Brin so-famously soon roars, "Why are there games on the back of a Cheerios cereal box when there could be a car ad?" Advertising absolutely everywhere becomes
Google Finance Cashes In
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-20
Google's launched Google Finance, its financial news and stock feature that will compete with Yahoo Finance and MSN Money. For now, it's getting panned, and some critics go as far to suggest Google's now in some kind of innovation lull. We'll see. Google Finance is only a beta release, which in
Nike and Google in Play
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-20
Joga is an invite-only online community for exchanging videos, photos, scores, news and other items about football. When switched on in the next few days, it'll be the first tangible results
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Loki Cometh
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-20
Worried about the Internet's erosion of your privacy? Take a look at Loki. The free, Web browser toolbar from Boston-based Skyhook Wireless automatically determines your lattitude and longitude, with an
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Porn Works in Google's Favor in Key Word Case
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-17
Porn has helped Google dodge quite a bullet. Google was facing a potentially catastrophic request from the government for a random sampling of the search terms its
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Google Knows the Score
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-17
March Madne$$ and TV-deprived? You can score with Google SMS.
The Google Translator
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-17
Our Google translator finally arrived in the mail! Now lets see just how good it is at decoding Googleish. We fed the contraption this story written by my colleague Michael J. Miller at PC Magazine. His
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Microsoft Has Google's Number
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-16
Google seems to be getting its lunch handed to it in a very lucrative front in its battle with chief rival Microsoft. According to some figures Microsoft released today, in January 20 million
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Google News Gets Schooled
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-15
A teen-ager has managed to point out Google News' credibility problems. Sixteen-year-old Tom Vendetta says he was motivated into devilishness by an article on fooling Google News he found on the
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Three dimensional, @Last
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-14
Google buys 3D image renderer @Last Software.
From the Trenches:The Google-DOJ Showdown
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-14
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware ultimately handed the Bush administration a partial victory over Google. Ware decided Google must turn over to the U.S. Department of Justice a few thousand Web sites it has indexed, which in turn will used as evidence in a separate court case. Ware made
Mars Attacks!
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-13
Mars, the planet, gets the Google Earth treatment.
There's Something Bigger Than Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-13
Ladies, gentlemen and Google watchers everywhere, I give you Mel Brooks, economic theorist! One of Brooks' infamous early comedic roles was of a man born before the time of Jesus, Yaweh or Allah. Did he worship anything? "A guy named Phil," the clan's biggest, baddest dude, Brooks explains to an
In Googleville, $50 Million Is Pocket Change
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-10
Google co-founder Sergey Brin on March 7 sold Google stock with an estimated face value of $50 million, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents here and here. To consider: The deal represents less than a percentage point of the estimated 31 million shares of Google stock Brin still
