Steve Bryant

Was a time when being interested in technology also meant being socially ostracized, sequestered from the mainstream and blessedly removed from everyday events. Oh well. Reuters points today to yet another survey that confirms Google is the borg. According to said survey by brandchannel.com, Google is ranked #1 as the brand that had the most […]

Google has integrated YouTube videos into Google Video, and results for videos appearing on YouTube now appear on Google Video. When users click on those videos, they are taken to YouTube.com. The sites are remaining separate and will “play to their repsective strengths” according to a YouTube rep. This change benefits both companies in several […]

subpoena.jpg D’oh! Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed YouTube to reveal the identity of users who uploaded four episodes of the TV series “24” and twelve episodes of “The Simpsons,” Google Watch has learned. The subpoena reads, in part: On or about January 8, 2007, Fox became aware that a subscriber (“the Subscriber”) of YouTube Inc.s’ […]

HItwise released their 2006 search statistics today and, all things being equal, odds are you’re a socially stultified nambypants who cruises MySpace, gets your schadenfreude jollies from American Idol, shops at Victoria’s Secret and repeats “Vegas baby, Vegas” with so much zeal you’d think you were the only one to ever see Swingers. According to […]

Google filed a lawsuit last week against Central Mfg., a company owned by Leo Stoller, a Chicago-based attorney “trademark expert” who has claimed rights for the word “Google,” Google Watch has learned. Google’s lawsuit, which comes after several years of legal wrangling with Stoller, after Stoller declared bankruptcy, and after Google was granted relief by […]

Researchers at the Alaskan Volcano Observatory are using Google Earth to monitor the risk of an eruption. Project leaser John Bailey used Google’s KML (Keyhold Markup Language) to create a custom program that displays eruption risks within a specific area. According to Wired News, “The program analyzes the data, assesses a threat level and displays […]

Google is in talks to acquire in-game advertising firm AdScape Media. Google’s potential move into the video game ad market comes at a time when they’re already exploring new markets with radio and perhaps television. Last year Microsoft purchased in-game advertising firm Massive for about $200 million. Microsoft’s internal estimates place the in-game ad market […]

Last Summer, after AOL released a bevy of search data, Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared at Search Engine Strategies San Jose and promised — promised! — that no such breach could ever occur at the Googleplex. If memory serves, his exact words were: “The answer is, it won’t happen.“ Oops. Looks like the G Poppa […]

Google and some of the world’s top publishers are collaborating on a system to allow book downloads onto PCs in a format that would make the books available to read on screen or on a mobile device, according to Dominic Rushe at the Times of London. While visions of Google eBooks may leap to mind, […]

LeeAnn Prescott at Hitwise takes a look at the Web-based RSS market and finds that Google Reader is gaining market share but lagging far behind the leader, Bloglines. According to Hitwise, Google Reader has only one-thirteenth the market share of Bloglines, and it is well below Rojo and slightly below Newsgator as well. Google doesn’t […]

Yahoo launched a new personal finance site today. They’ve got licensed content from the Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, Consumer Reports and the Motley Fool. For those of you who don’t understand the difference between a Roth and a regular IRA, or need how-to guides for tax planning, budgeting, etc., this looks like a pretty comprehensive […]

googlephone.jpg Engadget is running two supposed photographs of the still-mythical Googlephone–which has been a rumored Google project for at least a year–but skeptics say it’s just a Photoshopped video iPod. I couldn’t agree more. Google is certainly interested in mobile phones–it began testing mobile AdWords last year in eight countries, launched a real-time traffic data […]