Clint Boulton

You’ve probably been reading a lot of press about Google Caffeine, the next-generation search infrastructure Google released to developer sandbox Aug. 10. Why not hear about it from the source? Google’s Matt Cutts compares Caffeine to the company’s 2006 Big Daddy upgrade in this interview with WebProNews. “It’s essentially rearchitecting, or rewriting, a large chunk […]

If Microsoft and Yahoo are to take chunks of Google’s 65 percent search engine market share, they will need to convert some of the so-called lighter searchers that visit their sites once a month to full-time status, according to market research firm comScore. Microsoft and Yahoo July 29 announced a 10-year search and search advertising […]

Have you read this CNET interview with Google Chief Economist Hal Varian? Varian, who has worked on the design of advertising auctions, econometrics, finance, corporate strategy and public policy at Google since 2002, says that scale, or the amount of data for search and search advertising, at a certain point ceases to matter. Instead, the […]

10 Ways Apple Can Fix the Google Voice Public Relations Blunder Apple is now in a public relations nightmare after banning Google Voice applications from its App Store for duplicating features on the company’s iPhone. Apple did not adequately explain the reason for the ban and the Federal Communications Commission came calling, sending letters to […]

On Aug. 10 I posted a piece on eWEEK in which I explored the one scenario I could think of that would enable Microsoft Bing to overtake Google in search. Many readers, clearly pro-Google in nature, commented angrily on my opinion piece, “How Microsoft Bing Could Overtake Google in Search.” Many readers said I was […]

Shareholders for On2 Technologies have filed suit to block Google’s $106.5 million bid to buy the video compression software maker because they are unhappy with the purchase price and certain agreements On2 executives made with Google during negotiations. Google agreed to buy On2 Aug. 5 to shore up its video technology offerings. On2’s Video software […]

Google Reader is turning into quite the launching pad for helping users share content. Now the service lets users post content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Blogger,Delicious, MySpace, Reddit and StumbleUpon. You’ll find this capability in the “Send To” feature under the settings page in Reader. As you can see, if you want to post content […]

Google’s Caffeine, the developer sandbox for the company’s next-generation search infrastructure, is down until later this afternoon. The reason? Upgrades. Search Engine Land’s Matt McGee spotted the news in a Twitter tweet from Google Caffeine engineer Matt Cutts, who links back to McGee’s brief: Matt cutts caffeine down.png A trip to the sandbox http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ Web […]

Search Comparison Sites Pit Google Against Microsoft Bing, Others by Clint Boulton Bing vs. Google Created by Domagoj Pavlesic, Bing vs. Google features a simple, Google-like search box. Searching for Sushi on Bing and Google A keyword search yields a split screen. The default is side-by-side comparisons of Bing and Google. Users can also click […]

I have had no problem with Google ads. First, they have traditionally been to the far right of the page next to the scrollbar. Second, these ads are how the company makes money. Something has changed and it isn’t the money part. The ads have crept in a full two inches on my computer screen! […]

The Onion News Network has posted a video that should go down as a classic for all Google Watchers: the 22-acre Google Opt-Out Village is for users concerned about Google collecting too much data from their searches and other Web services. The video pokes fun at how reliant we as a society have gotten on […]

Facebook Aug. 11 confirmed that it is testing Facebook Lite, a faster-loading, stripped-down version of the popular social network geared for countries that have bandwidth speed or cost constraints. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the testing and compared it to accessing Facebook via a Web-enabled mobile phone. The stripped-down service lets users accept Friend requests, look […]