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April 26, 2008

Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:39 AM/EST

It's a Small Google World After All

While waiting in line with a thousand other people to get the first flight out of town the airport could muster for me, I happened to stand in front of a guy wearing a Google T-shirt. He was two weeks away from starting his career for the search giant. And now, a shout-out to Ilya. Hope you get to Toronto soon, buddy.

April 1, 2008

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:04 AM/EST

Google to Colonize Mars, After Buying Facebook, Feds

The merry pranksters are out in earnest for April 1, with some of the more silly jokes whipped up by or on behalf of Google poking at the search vendor's Big Brother aura...

February 22, 2008

Friday, February 22, 2008 1:04 PM/EST

Google's Space Race: Cannonball Run for the 21st Century

The blogosphere is brimming with news of the 10 contestants for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, which the gambit's site expertly describes in marketing speak as "a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes." Is this Google's way of getting in on the ground floor of extraterrestrial advertising?

February 20, 2008

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:35 PM/EST

Google + Hydrogen Balloons = Wireless Network?

The search pioneer is reportedly interested in a spaced out way to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans...

January 28, 2008

Monday, January 28, 2008 10:19 AM/EST

Google Doodles The Lego

The Lego has a special place in the search engine founders' hearts. Page and Brin used the building bricks as the casing for 4-gigabyte hard disks for a server they were making when they were developing the Google search engine...

January 7, 2008

Monday, January 07, 2008 3:12 PM/EST

Grab Your Goobles at Google

There is a somewhat interesting piece in the New York Times today that doesn't dwell on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, Android, OpenSocial or the pending 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction. The story details a prediction market Googlers are running and a study done by some economists on patterns regarding this fun gambling...

December 14, 2007

Friday, December 14, 2007 11:30 AM/EST

Harness That Inner Geek for Google U

I spent the day at Google's headquarters Dec. 12, meeting a handful of senior executives from across the company's broad product portfolio. This was my first time at the sprawling Mountain View campus, and it reminded me of my college orientation freshman year...

October 5, 2007

Friday, October 05, 2007 6:41 AM/EST

Google, MySpace Set Up Shop in San Fran

Earlier this week, Google opened an office in San Francisco and MySpace has started blasting out invites to the opening of its San Francisco office...

April 19, 2007

Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:11 AM/EST

Why Does eBay Want StumbleUpon? To Promote Its Auctions

At first it didn't quite make sense to me why eBay would want to acquire StumbleUpon. eBay does auctions and sales. StumbleUpon does random entertainment. At least, that's the way I used the two sites.But then, of course, I remembered...

March 9, 2007

Friday, March 09, 2007 12:04 PM/EST

Off Topic: Microsoft Sued for Alleged Document Patent Infringement

A Canadian software firm filed suit in Texas federal court yesterday against Microsoft for allegedly infringing on a patent concerning document metadata, Google Watch has learned.The firm, i4i Limited Partnership, alleges that several Microsoft products infringe on patent 5787449, "a...



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