Clint Boulton

Google had a couple of interesting news bits on the messaging and collaboration front Dec. 7. Google Wave is rolling out to 1 million users while Gmail’s offline capability has graduated from Gmail Labs. Google Wave is the company’s new collaboration platform, which lets users send e-mail and instant messages, share files, network with other […]

If I hadn’t ignored my gut and more vociferously asserted that Google’s $750 million bid for AdMob would be contested by federal regulators, I could say I told you so. As it stands, I gave industry analysts who watch the space like a hawk and actual industry players the benefit of the doubt when they […]

Google set out to make Dec. 8 a glorious day in the history of its Google Chrome Web browser by releasing stable beta versions of Chrome for Mac, Chrome for Linux and Chrome extensions. Google launched Chrome for Windows on Sept. 2, 2008, and since then users who dislike or despise Microsoft Windows have clamored […]

News Analysis: Google trumped Microsoft Bing when it launched real-time search engine capabilities Dec. 7, but this innovation comes against Google’s growing hunger in other areas of the Web that may make Google susceptible to federal scrutiny. The software algorithms powering Google’s real-time search required dozens of new technologies, according to Google Fellow Amit Singhal, […]

So Google entered the real-time search space in a big way today with the help of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed and others. Google officials also unveiled the Google Goggles mobile visual search technology, the What’s Nearby location-based service and Google search by voice in Japanese. Let’s look at some visuals, along with commentary. First, the […]

Google and Twitter Dec. 7 created new Web services to help local businesses broaden their exposure. Google has selected more than 100,000 businesses that have joined its Local Business Center for its “Favorite Places on Google” initiative, which lets business owners place a window sticker with a bar code on their storefronts. Users walking by […]

Uptake of Google’s Android operating system in Western Europe Android OS is below expectations despite the fact that Android market share grew from 4.2 percent in the second quarter to 5.4 percent in the third quarter. Research firm IDC said several operators listed Android devices in Q3 for the first time, which helped Android shipments […]

Google’s mobile search team unveiled a few key technologies that run the risk of being drowned out by the noise over the company’s more momentous real-time search announcement Dec. 7. Google unveiled real-time search at an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. However, Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering who […]

Google Dec. 7 unleashed perhaps its most significant search engine enhancements in years, adding real-time search results aggregated from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace and turning on its Google Goggles mobile visual search application in Google Labs. Google Fellow Amit Singhal, the company’s resident expert for search algorithms, and Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering […]

AppJet said it will open-source the code to EtherPad and the AppJet Web Framework in an effort to quiet the irate chatter from users in the wake of Google’s purchase of the startup. EtherPad is a document editing application that lets users edit word processing documents, Web pages, PDFs and text files at the same […]

Google risked drawing the ire of privacy advocates Dec. 4 by making its personalized search results available to all of its users, whether they are signed in or not. Personalized search results take into account Google users’ search queries and clicks over time and attempt to surface results the algorithm feels will be more relevant […]

Google purchased real-time document collaboration startup AppJet to fortify the Google Wave real-time collaboration platform, AppJet said on its blog Dec. 4. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though GigaOm reported a purchase price of $10 million. The move was a sellout by a company that felt it couldn’t compete with the sheer […]