Steve Bryant

Liberal bloggers are trying to manipulate Google results for Republican candidates to Google Bomb their reputations into the gutter. The campaign, originally conceived by Chris Bowers, was originally targeted at 70 Republicans but was scaled back to 50, according to the New York Times. The bloggers repeatedly reference the target Republicans, link to local and/or […]

“If you don’t know Keira Knightley, she’s basically a slightly more mannish version of Orlando Bloom.” — askaninja.com Further reinforcing the notion that we’re all easily-suggestible, credit card-wielding lemmings with poor taste in movies, Hitwise is reporting that “pirate costume” is the most popular Halloween-related search term this season, apparently due to the success of […]

Google’s strategy: Demonstrate to the courts that Amazon’s Search-Inside-the-Book relies on the same full book scanning process that Google Book Search does. Amazon objected to providing details about its book search feature to Google, in a response filed Monday in federal district court in Washington. The 16-page filing was in response to a request by […]

Google announced Google Custom Search Engine last night, and publishers around the Web jumped into action. In this slideshow, some examples from publishers around the Web, and a few examples from Google.

Or does the Google use him? The commander in chief was interviewed on CNBC recently and responded to a question about the world’s largest search engine: “HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very […]

Google unveiled today a new customizable search engine that can be added to any Web site. The new service, called Google Custom Search Engine and built off the Google Co-op technology, will ostensibly help publishers attune search experiences to their specific audiences while giving Google more inventory on which to place its AdSense advertisements. Google […]

Psst, hey you, the one addicted to blogs and secondary sources. Wanna see an original document? Then come check out the original complaint in Robert Tur v. YouTube, case number CV 06-4436-GAF (FMOx), filed July 14, 2006 in United States District Court, Central District of California. I thought you’d like to see this doc given […]

Continuing its efforts to add “features not products,” Google over the weekend linked Blog Search to Google News. The link provides quick access to Blog Search, but the products still work separately on separate subdomains. “Features not products” is an internal effort led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin to better organize the company’s vast array […]

It seemed like a match made in heaven. Google, long the wonky bastion of the geeky set, was rumored to have acquired the geekiest gizmo known to man. Scuttlebutt was that Google had purchased SpaceShipOne, the suborbital spaceplane that made history with the first privately-funded spaceflight in 2004, and set it on display at their […]

Google will begin to coordinate their main search function across vertical categories to make it easier for users to perform a single search and receive results from multiple types of media and content, said Google co-founder Sergey Brin Oct. 19. “When you do search you will see, for example, images and news stories and products […]

Google almost beat the street’s expectations today, reporting a 92% increase in quarterly profits, near the top of analyst expectations. Google reported 3Q net income of $733.4 million, up from the year-earlier quarter’s $381.2 million. Google reported revenues of $2.69 billion, an increase of 70% compared to 3Q 2005 and an increase of 10% compared […]

Those of you accustomed to the quick pace of Internet time will be disapointed to know that the schedule for Authors Guild v. Google has been pushed back about six months. Summary judgment deadlines are now scheduled for January 2008. That’s 2008, as in, “Won’t Google own the world by then?” Authors Guild v. Google […]