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June 19, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009 7:45 AM/EST

Iranian Election Scandal Forces Facebook, Google to Translate Persian

Google and Facebook do not like losing users to other Web services, so they acted in their best interest, and if it happens to help others, then so be it. Not to put too fine a point on it, but there it is. Ultimately, does the motive matter as long as the language barriers continue to fall on the Web?

June 18, 2009

Thursday, June 18, 2009 10:34 AM/EST

Google Hunkers Down on Software Projects with 'Innovation Reviews'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Jessica Vascellaro he is afraid Google's normally hands-off approach to managing product teams is letting good ideas stagnate or slip out the door. Google is taking steps to staunch this with reviews.

June 15, 2009

Monday, June 15, 2009 12:00 PM/EST

Google's Search Mastery Means Microsoft Bing Is No Ding Ding Ding

Microsoft put in the effort and Bing is nice, but it's no game-changing search engine in the shadow of Google. Or is it?

April 17, 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009 9:06 AM/EST

New Google Boss Same as the Old Boss

Google chiefs Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin got themselves a new voice for the executive suite, a fact that was either glossed over or misinterpreted during yesterday's earnings call. But Omid Kordestani is hardly a new face on...

April 8, 2009

Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:03 AM/EST

Google's Schmidt: In the Eye of the Beholder

Eric Schmidt gave at least four different speeches yesterday to an equal number of publisher association meetings in four different cities all named Washington, D.C. At least that's what you'd gather given the remarkably different takes on his comments. But...

March 31, 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:15 PM/EST

Google Ventures a Threat to Twitter?

Google's new venture fund will finance just about any kind of project its board likes, although, as the Washington Post points out, it doesn't own the domain name for googleventures.com--yet. Indeed, Google is likely to get its hands on that...

March 25, 2009

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:53 PM/EST

Is Google Where Startups Go to Die?

If you set aside DoubleClick and Postini, which were hardly startups when Google picked them up to respectively dominate ad serving and shore up its e-mail offering, do the startups that Google buys just disappear?

March 16, 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009 10:47 AM/EST

Introduction to Google on GARD

Hi, Some of you may remember me from my days writing for the E-Piphanies blog now so ably managed by Stephen Wellman and Jack Margo. I will now be following in the footsteps of the inestimable Clint Boulton, and I...

January 30, 2009

Friday, January 30, 2009 12:20 PM/EST

So Long... and Thanks for All the Google Watching

This is my last post on Google Watch. I'm taking an undetermined time off from my career because, well, sometimes life throws you some curveballs. I'll leave it at that. In the meantime, please trust the excellent editorial leadership at eWEEK.com to keep Google Watch humming along.

July 18, 2008

Friday, July 18, 2008 11:33 AM/EST

Google Q2 Call CliffsNotes

Maybe Google Co-founder Larry Page should skip quarterly earnings conference calls more often.


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