Clint Boulton

When Google sued the Department of the Interior for allegedly choosing Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite with nary a glance at Google Apps, it revealed an onion layered with irony. Google, often the target of scrutiny by the U.S. Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission for collecting too much data or growing too large, is […]

Blekko Challenges Google, Yahoo, Bing for Search Engine Share by Clint Boulton Blekko Meet Blekko, the new search engine. Note the simplistic homepage design, showing users various early Blekko users. Blekko Founder Here is Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta’s Blekko page. Users can drop Rich a note and view all of his customized searches, or check […]

Google’s Android operating system led Apple iOS, Research In Motion BlackBerry and others in growth for the third quarter, shipping on more than 40 percent of new smartphones, according to research from Canalys and the NPD Group. Android shipped on 44 percent of all smartphones in the United States for the third quarter, up 11 […]

Google saw two high-level departures last week, with AdMob founder Omar Hamoui and Google Maps and Google Wave creator Lars Rasmussen. Who knows what Hamoui is doing, but Rasmussen has gone to Facebook, the latest of the 20 percent of former Googlers who now make up Facebook. Google confirmed both departures in different statements to […]

Apple fired back at Motorola for what it alleges is an infringement on patents for multitouch and other touch-screen-related technologies the rival phone maker employs in its popular Android smartphone lineup. Three weeks after Motorola sued Apple over smartphone-related patents, Apple filed two suits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, alleging Motorola handsets such […]

Google Chrome rose to 8.47 percent market share through October as the upstart Web browser took small bits of share from leader Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome had reached the cusp of 8 percent share through September before easily vaulting over the barrier in the just-completed month, according to new data from market […]

Blekko Nov. 1 became the latest startup to challenge Google with a search engine that lets its users customize and refine searches to can some of the spam. Machine-generated search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing take users’ queries and search for these digital needles of information in an increasingly expanding haystack of billions […]

News Analysis: Just a few short days ago, the sky appeared to be falling on Google TV, the Web and channel-surfing hybrid service based on Google’s Android operating system and accessed by Google’s Chrome Web browser. First, the majority of reviews throughout the week have been downcast, with many testers proclaiming Google TV unpolished, buggy […]

Google racked up 40 acquisitions for $1.6 billion through the first three quarters of 2010, a frenetic pace of more than four per month that recalled the buying binges of Cisco Systems in its M&A heyday. The search engine, which revealed the numbers in a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Oct. 29, […]

Google wields some 6.4 percent of all Internet traffic around the world, a finding that should do little to quell concerns by consumer advocates that the search engine has grown too large. It’s well known that Google has for years cultivated a 65 percent share of search in the United States, with more overseas. But […]

Google’s reorganization of YouTube continued this week with the revelation that YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley was stepping down to work on other services at the search engine. Hurley, the face of YouTube since he and fellow co-founders Steve Chen and Jawed Karim sold YouTube to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion, will serve as an […]

Google in October has significantly accelerated its local search and advertising plans as it seeks to rival location-based service efforts of Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp. In analyzing its search engine traffic, Google has found 40 percent of its U.S. traffic is local in nature. To address this high percentage, this month Google has: Appointed […]