Ben Charny

Search giant Google Inc. has introduced Google Base, its much-rumored listings service that many people believe is meant to compete against auction and listings sites like eBay or Craigslist. Google Base is based on submissions from Google users, which Google then organizes and opens up for searching, for free. In a Weblog posting Wednesday, Google […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Search giant Google Inc. could take a big step to becoming an Internet service provider as soon as Tuesday night. Google has already acknowledged it wants to build its own Internet network, thus challenging the incumbent broadband operators stranglehold on the Internet service provider market. So far, Google is leaning toward using Wi-Fi, […]

Microsoft Corp. announced a new version of its desktop search feature meant for use in corporate computer networks, as it tries to keep pace with rivals such as Google Inc. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant says the new facet searches for information stored on individual PCs, or among clusters of computers typically found in offices. […]

Google Inc.s free Web site traffic analysis feature introduced Sunday was quick to impact WebSideStory, the company that arguably leads the analytics market that Google has just entered. In the hours after Google debuted its Google Analytics feature, San Diego-based WebSideStorys stock price fell as much as 12 percent, to below $16 a share. While […]

Google Inc. on Sunday added a free traffic-tracking feature to its advertising system, known as AdWords, as the Internet search giant tries to keep pace with advances by rivals. Google Analytics, as the new feature is called, details the activities of visitors to a Web site, including the number of visitors at any given time […]

As far as anyone at the venerable Internet site Craigslist knew on Friday, an advertisement that a California woman allegedly used to pimp her 4-year-old daughter for $500 is still posted on the site. In fact, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said the Martinez Police never contacted the company during their investigation, which led to the […]

The instant message appears to be catching up to e-mail as the favored way to communicate using the Internet, suggests a new survey conducted by America Online. Of the 4,000 people interviewed by America Online, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., a quarter of them preferred IM, the electronic messages that appear unprompted on a […]

Microsoft Corp. is embracing the latest supposed elixir for a problem holding back Internet telephony. The software giant, with the help of networking hardware kingpin Cisco Systems Inc., intends to add ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment) programming to many Microsoft software releases starting in 2006, said Russell Bennett, a Microsoft program manager. Why is Microsoft doing […]

Google Inc. on Thursday added a results screener and other new features to its personalized Internet search service, which draws upon a users Internet search history to better focus results. The upgrades are typical of ceaseless tit-for-tat features one-upmanship among Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.s MSN and other search leaders. The competition is particularly fierce […]

Search giant Google Inc. wants to patent something it calls “Google Automat,” which analysts suggest is another major piece of its online retailing and advertising strategy. UBS Investment Research analyst Benjamin Schachter, and Florida-based Classified Intelligence, a classified ad strategist, on Wednesday both described Google Automat as a way for individuals, or small advertisers, to […]

Internet telephony was once for underdog firms able to muster up a few hundred thousand dollars in investments. But thats not the case anymore, and perhaps federal regulations have played a large role. The present-day landscape is very different from what early VOIP (voice over IP) entrepreneurs had in mind for the freely available software […]

Internet search giant Google Inc. on Tuesday began aggressively pursuing patrons of Verity Inc., making a play upon possible customer fears about Veritys coming acquisition. To take advantage of the supposed opportunity, on Tuesday Google began giving away its least expensive Google corporate search product, its Mini, to new Google Enterprise customers through January 2006, […]