MySpace, the dominant social networking site, would like to partner with one of the Web’s leading search engine companies. So said Peter Chermin, the chief operating officer of News Corp., which owns MySpace.
PayPal To Google: Bring It On
PayPal President Jeff Jordan said his company is ready and waiting for any competing payment services that Google may launch. The GBuy system is supposed to come out on June 28, according to a note from RBC analyst Jordan Rohan.
Google Poised For Nielsen Raidings
Google is a media company – a dangerous one for conventional players. Mountain View’s next potential rival: Nielsen Media Research, the audience measurement company that has held a virtual monopoly in the sector for decades. And it shouldn’t be surpirsing. Google’s MO is information collection and research.
Google’s Government Search
Google launched a search site specializing in U.S. government information on Thursday. It’s called, appropriately enough, Google U.S. Government Search, and it covers a number of sources from local, state, and federal levels.
Google Talking Voice Recognition?
Senior Google executives are dropping big hints that the company’s future growth will come not just from PCs but from voice recognition services over mobile cellular phones and cars.
Google Searches Bard, Finds Yorick’s Skull
Google launched a new function in conjunction with its Book Search, one that celebrates, not relegates, a bard without besmirch. Shakespeare, in high school you were never easy, as we emulated with poems that to the ear and eye were cheesy. Like this one.
Google Geo Developer Day, Where 2.0
What a day I knew it was going to be full of news and cool stuff when Eric Schmidt (CEO), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (co-founders) walked onto the stage at the Googleplex – they note that geospatial is a defining opportunity in search!
Google Blows Up Earth
The Google Earth and Maps teams must have been on the verge of bursting into data stream rivers until they finally popped this morning, unloading a mess of new functionality onto the world. We had to mask our digital footprint with wading boots to fish out the most relevant to our readers: Google Maps for Enterprise.
Google Co-Op Topics – Annotating Web Content
In May of 2006, among other announcements, Google announced Google Co-op.
Fake Generic Viagra Site Using Google Name
The Register writes about a fake pharmacy, which purports to sell pills that don’t exist, and uses the Google name to try to appear legitimate.