Clint Boulton

More than one million people are actively using Google Wave, the search engine’s real-time collaboration platform, to work together on various projects. Google periodically publishes use cases for Wave. While these prove quite different in nature, they’re all linked by a common thread: collaboration among multiple people or co-workers to achieve common objectives. Co-workers are […]

Google Labs Gets Aardvark as Latest Search Experiment Google Labs Gets Aardvark as Latest Search ExperimentBy Clint Boulton Aardvark Google Squared Google Squared automatically constructs a table of facts about any category you specify. Google Image Swirl Google Image Swirl organizes image search results based on their similarity to other images and presents them in […]

Google Feb. 22 made its Google Earth application available for Android, a move that could boost adoption for the application that let users see satellite and 3D imagery of terrain, roads and other layers all over the planet. Google officials first showcased Google Earth running on the Google Nexus One at the smartphone’s launch event […]

When Google launched its Google Apps Premier Edition to the market three years ago, it marked a bold bet on the future of collaboration software. The collaboration software market was, and still is, ruled by Microsoft and IBM, which boast more than 650 million customers for their respective Microsoft Office, SharePoint and IBM Lotus suite […]

Google Buzz is not intended as a challenge to Facebook or Twitter, but as a unique complement to those Web services, the Google executive overseeing Buzz told eWEEK. Google Buzz launched Feb. 9 as a social service that lets users blast out status updates, links, videos, photos and other content to their contacts on Gmail. […]

A successful implementation of Microsoft and Yahoo’s search deal will give Microsoft’s Bing search engine much needed scale versus market giant Google, but integration challenges are a certainty as the companies consolidate technology, advertisers and publishers, analysts say. Microsoft and Yahoo Feb. 18 received clearance from the U.S. Justice Department and European Commission to commence […]

February has been quite the month for Google Creep, that slow, steady spread of Google’s sphere of influence across all business sectors that directly or indirectly touch on the Web. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Google the right to buy and resell electricity, fulfilling Google’s December request. At a general level, Google is […]

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said it cleared the search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo because the deal is likely to increase competition with Google, which has racked up the lion’s share of search over the last decade. Google commands 65 percent of search market share in the U.S. and a reported 90 percent share […]

Google’s Mobile Labs crew Feb. 18 launched Google Shopper, which lets users comparison-shop for merchandise with their Android phones. People use Shopper by calling up the app on their Android phone and pointing their phone’s camera at books, CDs, DVDs, and video games, along with most barcodes to get search results about those items on […]

10 Google Voice Tips You Should Learn to Use 10 Google Voice Tips You Should Learn to Use By Clint Boulton 1) One Number to Rule Them All Google Voice let users choose a number with a specific area code, or make the number more memorable by finding numbers that spell out words. When someone […]

Google has given a $2 million grant to support Wikipedia, the massive encyclopedia that contains more than 14 million articles contributed by more than 100,000 volunteers. Google.org offered the grant to the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation that oversees Wikipedia. The money will be used to buy more computer infrastructure to power Wikipedia, including bandwidth, servers and […]

A judge declined to rule on the proposed pact between Google and authors and publishers that would allow the search engine to scan out-of-print works on the Web and sell them to users. Denny Chin, judge for the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, said at a hearing for the Google […]