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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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Take Off Your Shoes, Google, You're On Holy Ground
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-30
Google's combing the Negev for researchers.
Big Daddy Casts A Shadow
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-27
There are new signs of Google Inc.'s rumored "Big Daddy" infrastructure overhaul. Judging from the recent plethora of evidence cited by Google watchers, it seems that Big Daddy has spread to much more of
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Hitting on ...
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-27
Hitting on: ...Forbes, which reports on a Bear Stearns research note predicting an iTunes competitor from Google "which we've dubbed Google Tunes. We think this is a logical step now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced." Expect a test of the service within 3 to 6 months.
What was that?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-26
What Marquette University Assistant Law Professor Eric Goldman said today: "It's legislative opportunism. It's classic (bad) cyberlaw." What he was reacting to: U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) intends to introduce a
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A minute with Roger Dingledine
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-26
Roger Dingledine created The Free Haven Project, a free software for anonymous and censorship-resistant Internet use. EWEEK'S GOOGLE WATCH Has the news that search engines turned over millions of
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Google's Great Wall Of China
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-24
Google now says it'll be censoring information available through its newly-launched China Web site. In this way, the search giant's appeasing the Chinese government enough to win a business license. In
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Blacklist Me!
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-24
Here's how to use Google to find Google CEO Eric Schmidt's home address: The terms to enter are "Eric Schmidt Google $ donations". Click on the Newsmeat listing in the first page of results. Find the 'Dean, Howard' for president entry, dated 9/12/03, on the Web page, then click "$2,000",
Google-peona Ropes In Enterprise?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-23
Enterprises could be hurt by the recently-disclosed fact that search engines turned over users' key words to the feds. Those firms where Internet search is an integral part of the work flow are
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Google's Beige Saturday
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-01-22
Google shares drop below $400 during the weekend.
