Ben Charny

Search giant Google, Inc. tipped its hand this week to Google Base, its much-rumored auction service that many people believe is meant to compete against auction sites like eBay or CraigsList. Screen shots of “Google Base,” available on several different Web logs, explain that the service-to-be is a database consisting of “your content” thats free […]

A settlements been reached in a federal lawsuit that VeriSign filed claiming that an Internet oversight agency had overstepped its boundaries. The settlement must be approved by the boards of VeriSign Inc., a company whose operation is fundamental to the Internet, and ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which intends to seek […]

A company created by mapping and instant message pioneer Perry Evans is set to make a deal that highlights the importance of commercial real estate to the Internet search industry. Evans local search provider, Denver-based Local Matters, Inc. is in the final stages of buying some, or all, of a company with access to extensive […]

Internet search technology may be getting too smart for its own good, says Michelle Weil, co-author of the book “TechnoStress.” Bleeding-edge search products no longer have to be told what to do. Theres a growing number like Watson 2.0, from Chicago, Ill.-based Intellext, which, on their own, selects keywords from a computer file you are […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. —eDonkey, Kazaa and other peer-to-peer software is the 800-pound gorilla here at the ISPCon Fall 2005 conference, a gathering of broadband providers and network operators. The group assembled here realizes it cant stop the results of the freely available software for using the Internet to exchange computer files with anyone else. About […]

The search engine Jux2 has put itself up for sale on the auction Web site eBay, a sign of the times for the hyper-competitive search industry. On Wednesday, a week before the auction ends, the highest bid was $26,300. Owning a search engine isnt for the meek. Aside from having to come up with the […]

An association of major American book publishers is suing Google Inc., alleging that the search giants plan to scan books and make them available online violates copyright law. The complaint takes aim at the Google Print Library project, which is in the midst of scanning book collections at several major universities plus the New York […]

Search giant Google Inc. has expanded Google Print, its controversial book-scanning project, into eight European countries. Native language sites have been launched in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. At each of the new Google Print locations, users can see snippets of the book where their search term appears. Several European […]

Some consumers feeling the impact of a spat between two major Internet network operators are asking for government intervention, but, so far, theres no substantive move by lawmakers or utility regulators to step into the fray. As significant numbers of businesses and consumers found out recently, Level 3 Communications, a major Internet network operator, refuses […]

Sean Egan, Google Inc.s latest high-profile hire, up until a few weeks ago was lead developer of software to simultaneously use multiple IM accounts. But now hes got some much bigger fish to fry, namely helping Google chart the future of Google Talk, the search giants instant messaging feature that for now stands in the […]

Its never too late for camp; not in Redmond, Wash., anyway. The start of fall marks the annual “MSN Search Champs Camp,” which software giant Microsoft Corp. holds for the purpose of investigating how it can better integrate Weblogs into Microsofts Internet search results. The event, held last week, gathers together Microsoft search honchos and […]

Search giant Google Inc. and U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp. are reportedly in negotiations to buy a small stake in America Online. In this potential deal, content is king. The possible investment is in Dulles, Va.-based AOLs free Web portal, the home of a number of the Internets more popular features, and not AOLs dwindling […]