Ben Charny

The ongoing Mashup Camp show in Palo Alto, Calif. is teeming with companies claiming they’ve found features that search giants, in particular Google, haven’t yet, rejected, or just flat missed. For instance, PodBop‘s feature searches based on a geographic location and podcasts by bands set to appear in those locales. It’s rumored to have won […]

News publisher MediaNews Group has emerged as a candidate to buy Knight Ridder, an elite U.S. newspaper chain, says a source. It’s a potentially volatile mix, when comparing the respective views about the Internet. Knight Ridder was among the first of the nation’s elite newspaper publishers to follow the flow of advertising dollars online. Meanwhile, […]

The two-day search engine shop talk binge Mashup Camp begins today in Palo Alto, Calif. There’s already grumblings about the brutal 7 a.m. start time, especially if you’re like Steven O’grady and got to your hotel just six hours beforehand. Let the digerazzi and blogging begin.

News publisher MediaNews Group has emerged as a candidate to buy Knight Ridder, an elite U.S. newspaper chain, a source said. The interest by MNG came to light after CEO Dean Singleton was spotted inspecting the offices of the San Jose Mercury News, which is owned by Knight Ridder, according to a witness of the […]

The two-day search engine shop-talk binge Mashup Camp is under way in Palo Alto, Calif. Events such as Mashup Camp are designed to gestate ideas about Internet search later used by enterprises and other consumers. Mashup Camp has no agenda, unlike industry shows such as Search Engine Strategies, which starts later this week. Rather, its […]

Attorney Richard Wageman has been in China a lot longer than Google. He works for Lehman, Lee & Xu, a Chinese law firm. His is a rather refreshing view of Google goings on in China, where it’s agreed to censor search results in order to operate a Web site from within the country. Google argues […]

TV Eyes new video search engine truly blows away anybody else when it comes to this kind of feature. But like many other start-up search operators, it lives in Google’s shadow. Will it be the next Rolly-O, the rare search start-up that’s able to build any buzz?

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 features on deck, because the carriers will get steamrolled in the process. The seemingly innocent features menu is a valuable window for […]

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. Maybe it’s finally time for […]

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 friend mentioned the observation to […]

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 incredible balance sheet. Nokia’s stock price too gets buffeted when the company misses some astronomical sales projection by just a few percentage points. Just […]

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 nations, like China, where Internet content is subject to government restrictions. The tone and language of the letter suggests Google’s trying to appease regulators, […]