Clint Boulton

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all posted robust query growth in worldwide search for August 2009, as search queries grew 41.6 percent year over year, according to the new numbers from comScore. Google’s worldwide market search share declined a tad to 67.3 percent from 67.5 percent in July 2009. However, Google’s query growth soared 62.5 percent […]

Google will make its Google Wave real-time collaboration platform available to 100,000 more people beginning tomorrow in what the company is calling an “extended preview.” As I noted over the weekend, Wave has been tested internally by thousands of Googlers and externally by thousands of developers. These folks have been poking and prodding it to […]

Google is dominant in search, but its plot of the online video market may have more staying power. Google retained its rank as the top U.S. digital video property, with more than 10 billion videos viewed in August, according to comScore. The research firm said 161 million U.S. Internet users watched more than 25 billion […]

SlideRocket, which makes a Web presentation platform using Adobe’s Flex software development kit, is looking to attract more sales and marketing teams to use its popular application. The company Sept. 29 released SlideRocket Sales & Marketing Edition, adding sharing, permissions and control features to boost security for presentations being shared with multiple users. Users of […]

The issue that degraded or knocked out service to Google’s Gmail application Sept. 24 was high load on the company’s Google Contacts service, according to an incident report from the Google Apps team. Google Apps users could not access or experienced disruptions in their Gmail accounts from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EDT. Users received […]

When Google points at phone carriers such as Verizon and AT&T and complains they are blocking access to applications, content and services, we tend to listen. Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane… No, it’s Google, swooping in as defenders of the Internet faithful. We as a nation are so, so tired of Ma Bell […]

The time for fun, buggy demonstrations with select media and analysts is over. Google’s Wave collaboration platform will soon face its first true test when the company rolls it out to 100,000 consumer and business users. Google Sept. 30 will make the service, which lets users send instant messages, share documents and videos, and co-edit […]

AT&T Sept. 25 sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission protesting Google’s blocking of telephone calls from consumers who use its Google Voice service to call phone numbers with inflated access charges in certain rural areas. AT&T argued that by blocking these calls, Google reduces its access expenses, giving it an advantage phone carriers […]

Search query traffic to Microsoft Bing increased 18 percent in August, giving the nascent search service 9.48 percent of the U.S. search market, according to a sample survey of 10 million users by HitWise. Bing’s growth, up from an 8 percent share in July, seems to have come at the expense of Google and Yahoo. […]

Google Maps has for years been just another search tool. Users enter a state, city, town or street and get back a graphical layout and directions. But with its new Place Pages, Google is taking steps to make the application more of a destination where users will spend more time searching for not only directions […]

A New York District Court judge agreed to delay a hearing on the Google Book Search settlement to give Google and authors and publishers time to revise the proposal. Google Book Search is an October 2008 settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers that would enable the search engine […]

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams Sept. 25 confirmed the microblogging service closed a funding round from Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital. Twitter lets users post messages of up to 140 characters to its Website. Numerous media reports said the funding totaled $100 million, valuing the startup at […]