HomeBlogsGoogle Watch

Google Watch

Advertisers to Google: What Have You Done for Me Lately?

Google to advertisers: Try our new cost-per-action advertising program.Google is currently testing a new advertising program that pays site owners based on demonstrable post-click...

The World Cup Runs Over Google

Google can't be a big fan of FIFA's World Cup, the month-long futbol extravaganza.The reason? Hundreds of millions of people are watching the matches...

Google, Methinks Thou Doth Search Too Much

Google Search is good. Maybe too good?Reports from the Monetize blog last weekend demonstrated that a spammer--since revealed to be a Moldavian malcontent--managed to...

Private Google Parts

Following a spate of trojan and worm attacks on Orkut and Page Creator that jeopardized users' financial information, Google has joined a group of...

Google Talk: Nothing New to See Here, Move Along

All's quiet on the Google Talk front, leaving Microsoft and Yahoo to bring in the big guns.Yesterday, Microsoft released its first Windows Live product...

Google Calendar, Now with Less Privacy

Because the world really, really needs to know what you're doing.The Calendar team has updated Google Calendar with a feature that allows users to...

Orkut: Worm to Your Mother

First trojans on page creator, now worms in Orkut.Hackers are trying to steal Orkut users' bank account information by inserting an automated information theft...

A Competitor’s Guide to the Internet, Part II

Back in February, I wrote a post that broke out some of the categories in which Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft were competing. Since...

The Google ‘Mud Geyser’ Moves On

Dearest Bleacher Creatures:It's about the comments you leave below the postings on this blog.I've occasionally written some dumb stuff, so I expect a good...

Get Thee to a Googlery

Google's book search engine has put together a William Shakespeare section, which in practice is a Web page where people can read a lot...