Thursday, May 01, 2008 4:22 PM/EST
The potential here is scary. If the Google TV Ads system drives even a small percentage of the millions of couch potatoes all over the world to do Internet searches, Google will pad its deep ad pockets even more. It will make mobile search ads look like a May shower.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:56 PM/EST
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the "alleged recession" could make for some tasty acquisition targets. Wow, if that isn't an open door to lure new talent, I don't know what is.
Monday, April 28, 2008 3:33 PM/EST
Google researchers are cracking the nut that is image search using the company's much-maligned PageRank computation that it uses to assign Web sites scores based on relevance.
Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:39 AM/EST
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.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:46 PM/EST
Google did well to get the DoubleClick deal past the Federal Trade Commission, but cozying up to search and online ad rival Yahoo was clearly a move to fling mud in Microsoft's eye as it seeks to buy Yahoo.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:44 AM/EST
Google is being peppered by yet another lawsuit regarding its advertising technology. The plaintiff claims users are not being informed that Google places the ads through its AdSense affiliates and charges for them.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:31 AM/EST
Google took the step many assumed it would and opened an iGoogle sandbox for developers to help them build richer gadgets for the home page. This is the start of Google's new social network.
Monday, April 21, 2008 12:25 PM/EST
For the second year running, Google was named top brand out of a list of 100 composed by research and consulting company Millward Brown Optimor. The search company is worth a staggering $86.1 billion, followed by GE at $71.4 billion and Microsoft at $70.8 billion.
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:14 AM/EST
Mess with Google's mind share and feel the backlash. That's the lesson ComScore learned Thursday after Google handily beat first-quarter financial expectations by announcing a 31 percent profit and paid click growth of 20 percent.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:20 AM/EST
U.S. representatives feel that they let Google manipulate the 700MHz spectrum auction. What Google did was a good thing. If spectrum access was freed up in the first place, Google wouldn't have to effect change in the auction.