Clint Boulton

10 Things You Might Not Know About Google 1) Sergey at Wolfram Research Brin worked at Wolfram Research as one of his summer jobs in the 1990s, years before starting Google with Page. More than a decade later, Wolfram Research would launch Wolfram Alpha, a data computation engine designed to complement general Web search engines. […]

Though recent reports of search market share imply Bing may have peaked, the Microsoft search engine posted quarter-over-quarter gains in paid clicks and spending share, according to Efficient Frontier, which published its search engine performance report for the third quarter on Oct. 13. Efficient Frontier President and CEO David Karnstedt, who worked as senior vice […]

Google today made good on its July pledge to upgrade, overhaul and improve Google Docs. The result? A finer collaboration suite. Users have always been able to share files created in Google Docs. After putting some of us on edge by taking away the “Shared with” feature this past summer, the Docs team redeemed itself […]

Google: Five Fixes For Five Password Security Problems by Clint Boulton Problem 1: Reusing Passwords Across Websites Most people who live online do their e-mail, banking and shopping there, requiring them to enter passwords for several Websites. Unfortunately, too many people make themselves vulnerable by using the same passwords for every Website. If a hacker […]

The online advertising world, languishing since late 2008, will turn its lonely eyes to Google Oct. 15, when the search giant is expected to announce third-quarter earnings after the bell. Bernstein Research said it expects Google to beat consensus expectations modestly, raking in earnings per share of $5.44, compared with Wall Street’s consensus of $5.36. […]

It’s fitting that the world’s largest social network would also receive the most traffic. Facebook netted 58.6 percent of all U.S. visits among a HitWise survey of 155 social networking Websites in September 2009, a 194 percent increase over the site’s market share from September 2008. HitWise gauged the online traffic of 10 million U.S. […]

More than two months ago, the Federal Communications Commission put Apple’s and AT&T’s feet under the fire, trying to find out which one of the brothers-in-arms was responsible for rejecting the Google Voice call management application. The FCC sent letters to Apple, AT&T and Google, demanding to know how Google’s phone management application was shut […]

A lot of snarky sniping goes on online, most of which is easily dismissible. Sometimes you have to appreciate some of the snark for its simplicity. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler got tipped off to a doozy of a Website — Easiertounderstandthanwave.com. It’s worth 5 minutes of your time for a cheap laugh or two. The Website […]

Google Oct. 9 rolled out several improvements to its experimental Google Squared search service, including more facts; better relevance, sort and rank capabilities; and the ability to extract data to Google Spreadsheets. Demoed at Google’s May Searchology event and launched in June from Google Labs, Google Squared extracts facts from all over the Internet and […]

The “Is Google Evil?” debate is one big Christmas gift that keeps on giving for bloggers, pundits and aficionados. The latest offering comes from Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s jaunt to New York City this week, where they spoke with reporters for nearly 90 minutes at Google’s Chelsea office. The topics […]

Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google’s Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print books and make them available to users. Google Book Search is the search engine giant’s proposed settlement with the Author’s […]

Twitter is preparing for international expansion into French, Italian, German and Spanish languages. What’s interesting is how Twitter, currently available only in English and Japanese, will enable additional language support: crowdsourcing. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said Oct. 8 Twitter’s translation team is offering a tool for people with fluency in other languages to suggest translations […]