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Schlock and Awe: Valleywag Admonishes Google, Battelle, Is Generally Boring

Bring Nick Douglas back, please.Sure, the kid looked like a tiny version of Egon Spengler, but in Silicon Valley that's practically centerfold material. And...

Google Stock Tops $500, Offers Checkout Rebates for Holiday Season

How's that for a holiday bonus. Google's stock price topped $500 for the first time today, breaking an anticipated high water mark. The stock...

Google’s Newly Independent Sitemaps Standard is Boon to Publishers

The world's three largest search engines agreed this week to support the same protocol for submitting Web pages to their crawlers.Google created the protocol,...

Yahoo Search Growth Beats Google

Yahoo's share of search traffic has grown faster than Google's in the last year, according to new data from Nielsen//Netratings.Nielsen's October U.S. search share...

Post-Thanksgiving Google News Roundup

I didn't touch a computer once in four days of Thanksgiving-inspired gluttony. But the news doesn't stop when you're on holiday. Here's a quick...

Out of Africa: Google Maps Goes on Safari

Update: Man, I'm out of it. Google actually called me to say -- in its best George Burns impression -- that they issued a...

Google Expanding Mobile AdWords Trial to Eight New Countries

Google will be expanding its Mobile AdWords trial to eight new countries, a Google representative said today at the ThinkEquity Partners Media Convergence Summit.John...

Top 5 Google Weaknesses

One of the most common questions people ask about Google is whether the search-cum-media company is friend or foe. The answer, of course, is...

Ten Completely Obnoxious Reasons Why Yahoo is Doomed

The Journal published a leaked memo from Yahoo that reveals mismanagement and confusion in the ranks. Poor company has lost its way. Maybe it's...

Google Closes YouTube Acquisition

Google announced today that they have closed their acquisition of video-sharing site YouTube.To complete the $1.65 billion sale announced October 9, Google issued "217,560...