Clint Boulton

When Google added its search options feature in May, the company made it possible for users to narrow the time parameters of their search down to the past 24 hours. The blogosphere is abuzz this morning with the discovery of a neat little hack every user can do to get Google results up to the […]

When Google added its search options feature in May, the company made it possible for users to narrow the time parameters of their search down to the past 24 hours. Of course, some search engine snobs scoffed at this. Why search Google for info in the past 24 hours when you can search real-time search […]

Google received the highest score in search engine quality in a test by uTest, while challenger Microsoft Bing received great accolades in usability and design and surprised people enough to make them switch to the new search engine, uTest said Sept. 14. Software quality concern uTest farmed out a test of the Google, Google Caffeine, […]

Robert Cringely has an interesting post about Google’s corporate idiosyncrasies as relayed to him via ex-Googlers. Through him we learn that peer review is Google’s choice for product development, sometimes to a fault. Google’s painstaking peer-review processes constitute a big part of why Google applications and services retain the beta tag for several years. See […]

Twitter Sept. 10 revised its terms of service, adding allowances for online advertising and more clarity about content ownership, APIs and spam. The microblogging service, which lets users post messages of 140 characters or fewer and has become popular among celebrities, received more than 50 million visitors in July. The exponential growth of the site, […]

VOIP provider Skype Sept. 11 shuttered its Skype Extras third-party application development program due to lack of interest in the applications programmers created. Skype, 65 percent of which parent company eBay is selling to Silver Lake and other investors, made the announcement in an e-mail to Skype Extras developers today. “Despite the incredible breadth of […]

Facebook can brag of a busy Sept. 10, 2009. The social network released the FriendFeed Web server to open source, which readers can learn more about here. The company also launched its Facebook Lite version and began rolling out a new tagging feature for the site. Facebook Lite, which eWEEK reported on last month, is […]

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha introduced the Motorola CLIQ, which is being sold by T-Mobile, at the Mobilize 09 show in San Francisco today. At first blush of the specs and pics, the CLIQ is hardly monumental or groundbreaking. It seems to hew fairly closely to the T-Mobile Android myTouch 3G and the Sprint HTC Hero […]

Hungry to prove that search advertising is not in danger of drying up or going stagnant, Google search ad monetization executives Sept. 9 said they are working on new ad formats to help boost the company’s revenues. Google’s search ad formats-largely contextual links from search results-have not changed over the past several years, a common […]

Today I covered on eWEEK.com Google’s search monetization Webcast, in which Google executives drew the curtain on new ad formats some of us may or may not have stumbled upon in our Google searching travels. Did you know that one out of every five searches on Google is new? Or that 10 petabytes of new […]

TimeBridge Sept. 10 unveiled several new features to its online meeting application and launched a version of it for Apple’s popular iPhone. TimeBridge launched its free personal meeting scheduler application in 2007 and now has more than 400,000 business customers using it to get together. Users create a meeting invitation with a few proposed times, […]

Google confirmed it is working on a micropayments system for the Newspaper Association of America, which asked Google to submit some ideas for how its members could use technology to generate more revenue from their digital content. The micropayment system, which is still in the planning stages but could be available on Google and non-Google […]