Video Search Gets Serious

Google Barges Into the Ocean

Google's quest for global domination organization is taking a step further as it moves out into the ocean. Yes, Google intends to have a presence not only in outer space, but in the sea as well.

The News Revolution Started Yesterday

Extinction probably isn’t the right word when it comes to assessing the state of journalism; evolution or revolution might be closer. Yesterday, Internet giants like Google and Yahoo, among others, announced enough traditional news media partnerships (and one citizen journalist partnership) that the volume of them became newsworthy itself.

Schmidt Aims Algorithms At Energy Crisis

Green is the new black; math is the new cool; and Google CEO Eric Schmidt has some formulas for increasing energy efficiency, job creation, money saving, and how the Internet will fend off global warming. Sound far-fetched?  Schmidt says, “It’s just a math problem.”

Report: YouTube Preparing HotSpots Tool

Suppose that, whenever a certain television character entered a bar, viewers changed the channel instead of happily shouting "Norm!"  NBC would have wanted to know, and now YouTube's content creators may gain a similar sort of insight into what users do while watching their clips.