Clint Boulton

Google doesn’t just want to organize the world’s books online and make them easily accessible to readers through Google Book Search. The search engine giant covets the electronic book-selling market led by Amazon and its Kindle e-reader. A Google executive told journalists at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany Oct. 15 that Google will sell […]

Google Voice blocks calls from not only sex lines and free conference calling schemes, but from health clinics, congressmen a convent of Benedictine nuns, according a new letter from AT&T to the Federal Communications Commission Oct. 14. Google Voice is the search engine’s phone management service, a Web-based application that lets users ring home, mobile […]

Kicking sand in the face of the recession, on Oct. 15 Google reported third-quarter profit of $1.64 billion on earnings per share of $5.13, a 27 percent boost from its profit of $1.29 billion on EPS of $4.06 in the year-ago period. Google posted third-quarter revenues of $5.94 billion, 7 percent greater than third-quarter 2008 […]

Last week, a Google employee launched the WhatBrowser.org Web site to inform users about what a browser is, the different types of Web browsers available to them is, along with tips on how to manage them. Today, Google dispensed with the agnostic approach and championed its own Web browser with this guide on how to […]

Aardvark Oct. 14 launched a new Website that lets users ask questions and receive answers from people instead of search results surfaced by algorithms. Vark.com is the latest in a parade of so-called social search engines designed to bring a more human element to Web search. With Vark.com, users can ask a question in English […]

Google Oct. 13 released Google Building Maker, a new tool that lets users create three-dimensional models of buildings in Google Earth in minutes. 3-D buildings are already a key component of Google Earth, an application that includes geographic layers for satellite imagery, maps, terrain, space and ocean topographies. With Building Maker, Google is crowdsourcing building […]

Microsoft Bing only grew U.S. search engine market share from 9.3 percent in August to 9.4 percent in September, according to new results from comScore released Oct. 13. Google, which will announce third-quarter results Oct. 15, again led the way with 64.9 percent of the search engine market in September, climbing from its 64.6 percent […]

The Wall Street Journal published a comprehensive feature Oct. 12 on the wane of e-mail’s reign, thanks to the rise of Facebook, Twitter and collaboration platforms such as Google Wave. There are many, many fine points in the piece, which fairly covers the increase in adoption of social networks and the proliferation of real-time Web […]

Undeterred by rejection from Apple, cries of foul play from Apple bedfellow AT&T, and the ensuing inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission, Google Voice continues to roll out to users. Google, which in June began selectively issuing invites to Google Voice, on Oct. 13 said it will begin letting current Google Voice users invite up […]

Google’s Gmail Labs team Oct. 13 released another feature designed to save people from the red-faced tinge of e-mail embarrassment. “Got the wrong Bob?” helps prevent Gmail users from e-mailing the wrong recipient in a group message. When users compose group e-mails and add contacts, the feature will try to identify when users have accidentally […]

Arthur Levinson, the former Genentech CEO who held positions on both Google and Apple’s board of directors quit his post at Google Oct. 13, severing another tie between Google and Apple. The move comes more than two months after Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from his post as an Apple board member. Schmidt and Levinson […]

Google Oct. 12 revamped its Google Docs word processing, spreadsheet and presentation trio, refreshing Docs’ appearance and adding shared folders, batch file uploads and more than 50 other new features to make it more valuable for knowledge worker collaboration. In Docs, colors have been changed and buttons have been moved. The new “Folders” dialog lets […]