Clint Boulton

More than 113 billion searches were conducted in July this year, marking a 41 percent increase from July 2008, according to the latest global search statistics from market researcher comScore. Despite the emergence of Microsoft’s Bing as a search engine challenger, Google continued to pace the market, landing 76.7 billion searches, good for a market […]

In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last year or so, Google is really, really excited about HTML 5. Why wouldn’t Google be excited about HTML 5? The Web is both Google’s playground and its business. HTML 5 is the next-generation Web language Web programmers need to hew closely to it to […]

Chitika, which recently analyzed search engine traffic through open source, did another study this past week and confirmed again that Microsoft Bing is not gaining significant traction. Based on a sample of 163 million impressions from the United States and Canada across the Chitika network in early August, the ad network found that Bing, which […]

Google’s Caffeine hasn’t even been in a developer sandbox for a month, but the next-generation search infrastructure has already got some search engine marketers thinking about how it will affect keyword alchemy. Caffeine will substantially shake up search rankings with a larger search index, a longer long tail and more social media listings, according to […]

Earlier this week, 360i did a great comparison of 40 retail keywords in both Google Caffeine and the current Decaf Google search infrastructure and found that keyword rankings are definitely being mixed up. I just posted my analysis of this research on eWEEK, but it begs for some visuals, courtesy of 360i’s Mike Dobbs and […]

I wrote two days ago about how Google was propping up Google Maps quite persistently this summer, lastly with guidance for traffic on back roads and crowd-sourced traffic conditions for mobile phone users. Google has also given its great Street View application a lift by making it easier for smartphone users to find local businesses. […]

While it has been a fairly quiet summer for Google Apps, the search engine giant’s enterprise team is intent on reaching a broader audience with the suite’s Docs and Sites collaboration tools, a Google product manager told eWEEK. Google on Aug. 27 added the ability to translate documents in the Google Docs program into 42 […]

12 Tips for Making Google Gmail, Google Apps Easier to Use by Clint Boulton Gmail Settings In Gmail, select the Settings menu. You will see the option to turn on keyboard shortcuts. Click the “on” box and hit “save” and you’re ready to begin. Compose, Search, Scroll in Gmail This slide shows the keystrokes for […]

The European Union’s privacy watchdogs can be pretty harsh when it comes to Web services that collect a lot of data. With all the privacy concerns (and antitrust questions) surrounding the Google Book Search settlement, I was slightly surprised to see Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for Information Society and Media, back the Google Books […]

Google will enter the market for offering mortgage loan quotes, according to a lawsuit filed by LendingTree in the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. LendingTree filed the lawsuit August 25 versus technology partner Mortech, alleging the company violated its contract with LendingTree by partnering with Google to launch an online mortgage […]

Facebook on Aug. 27 bowed to pressure from Canada and pledged to add more controls to protect user privacy. This includes making it clear how users may delete their Facebook accounts, which zaps user profile data from the company’s servers, instead of just deactivating the accounts, which means the data is put on standby in […]

News Analysis: When Yahoo hired new CEO Carol Bartz in January, I was convinced the company was on the turnaround path. I believed the Web services giant was capable of recovering from the mess of mutilated morale Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang left in his wake following the end of his painful return as CEO. Bartz […]