Steve Bryant

Following the news that YouTube has signed its first post-acquisition filtering licensing agreement with an indie label, here’s a chart depicting its decision-making process. It’s a work in progress. Leave your suggestions in the comments.

Google has a first amendment right to reject ads, a Delaware federal court ruled last week. The decision to dismiss several complaints against Google, Microsoft and Yahoo reaffirms that search engines have an “editorial right” to reject any advertisements it finds objectionable. Furthermore, since search engines are not state entities, they do not impinge upon […]

Who knew that Google Watch had a German cousin of the same name? Guten tag meine freunde, wie geht’s?

Google is prepared to offer advertisers more information about the sites where their PPC ads appear. Buried on the second page of this New York Times article about contextual ad firm Quigo is the news that Google will begin reporting on which sites each advertisement runs. Advertisers in the Google networks will soon be able […]

Even as YouTube finds itself embroiled in copyright controversy, corporate parent Google is expanding its video AdSense relationships to include The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast and Sony BMG among others. Short videos from those content companies are now appearing alongside relevant content on sites that sport AdSense. A video ad often follows. You can […]

Start the Google vs. Microsoft organ grinder again, because the search giant is going after the software king’s most lucrative market: The desktop. After years of competing on the fringes of Microsoft’s desktop software business, Google is announcing today a new premier edition of Google Apps for Your Domain (now just Google Apps) that includes […]

Google has been acting as if it controls an inelastic product–that is, that YouTube has no substitutes and therefore the content companies will be forced to negotiate deals with favorable terms for Google. For the past several months, Google’s assumptions have been true. There hasn’t been a service that could match YouTube’s reach and the […]

Google Video and Google Blog Search have experienced triple digit percentage growth in traffic in the past year, while Froogle, Local, Directory, Alerts and Local have lost traffic, according to analysis from traffic research firm Compete. Google Scholar and Google Desktop also experienced triple digit percentage growth, despite reports of the latter’s vulnerability to cross-site […]

I just turned on the TV after lunch and what do I see but Google’s Gmail featured in a promo for an upcoming “As the World Turns” episode on CBS. From what I could piece together, some gal named Maddie “makes a crucial error in her efforts to cover her crime,” and the error involves […]

Google recently wrapped up its first sponsored class at the University of Washington. The class, dreamed up by engineer Chistophe Bisciglia, was a five week course designed to teach students how to code the Google way. The course teaches students how to use multiple computers to solve problems, rather than a single system. Also on […]

With Viacom, NBC and now the Electronic Frontier Foundation pressuring Google to make changes to YouTube, the G Poppa is shifting resources to help monetize everyone’s favorite vid-sharing site. About time. YouTube might be the 800-pound gorilla in the vid-sharing space, but it faces unwithering competition from the likes of Joost (about to partner with […]

Google has apparently agreed to buy video game advertising firm Adscape for $23 million, Red Herring reports. News of the on again off again deal broke last month. The Red Herring article notes industry speculation that Google won’t get much for its money except for a few patents. In acquiring Adscape, Google will be entering […]