Clint Boulton

Google has added search reporting and event tracking to its Analytics software for businesses, casting a spotlight on the convergence of search and business intelligence and the notion search obligations dont end by helping users find what they are looking for. The new reporting tool allows customers to condition search on their sites to identify […]

During a 10-minute spot on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit, uber product manager Marissa Mayer, who took over Google’s Health initiative from Adam Bosworth after his departure, wanted to show that the initiative was, ahem, alive and well. So what better way to do that then in a Letterman-esque top 10 list of things […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Social networking may present an ocean of opportunity for Internet companies, but eBay is refusing the lure. Web 2.0 Summit Co-host Tim OReilly tried several times to get eBay CEO Meg Whitman to commit to blending eBays PayPal online payment system with a social networking platform, but she wouldnt take the bait. While OReilly […]

Google made good on its promise to unveil a “highly complicated” content-protection tool, but is this the olive branch anti-piracy activists have been looking for? Experts agree its a step in the right direction but not a silver bullet. The YouTube Video Identification tool includes a database of reference material provided by rights owners, and […]

Still feeling the effects of a major reorganization, Yahoo officials Oct. 16 said third-quarter net income fell 5 percent, to $151.3 million, from $158.5 million in the same period a year earlier. Yahoo, which replaced Terry Semel as CEO with co-founder Jerry Yang and reorganized into three core business segments this year, said third-quarter revenue […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle peppered Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with tough questions about the future of the social networking site, getting the Harvard dropout to admit the company will announce plans to make money through online advertising within the next three months. When Battelle asked if and how Facebook would colonize its […]

Coveo Solutions has become the latest company to upgrade its enterprise search, launching a platform with distributed indexing and tighter integration with Microsofts SharePoint collaboration suite, among other perks. Speedier searching is the key upgrade to Coveo Enterprise Search 5.0. The software uses index “mirrors” to synchronize data located in various geographic locations into one […]

Allowing third-party programmers to build applications on top of social networking platforms is increasingly becoming table stakes for businesses that want to sustain themselves in a burgeoning market, according to experts who follow the space. When Facebook opened its platform for outside development in May, it triggered speculation that other Internet companies would follow suit […]

AOLs decision to lay off 2,000 workers to realign the companys cost structure is the latest move for a company that wants to get lean and mean to mix it up with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the online advertising space. AOL CEO Randy Falco, who unveiled the layoffs in an internal memo leaked to […]

Months after promising tools that will help weed out copyrighted material on YouTube, Google today launched the beta of its YouTube Video Identification tool for pinpointing pirated content. “Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily […]

I’ve been reading a lot of googly-eyed blog posts on how Google has married YouTube videos with Google Earth. So, when you click on a location, you could see video supplied by others tracking that ski slope in Colorado, or the ocean in Hawaii. Now that’s what I call a collaborative Web experience! Kudos, Googlers. […]

Can anything go wrong for Google? Two Reuters reports on the legal front for Google are framed in the search vendor’s favor. First, Reuters said the European Union’s data watchdog will wait until 2008 to decide whether Google and other search engines are violating EU privacy laws by the way they mine data to better […]