Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt told an audience in Tokyo that litigation is just part of American life.
Congressional Hearing For Google Print?
Google’s list of allies in support of its massive Google Print for Libraries project is getting shorter by the day. Yesterday, the century-old National Consumers League sent a letter to Congress urging the government body to set up public hearings on the matter.
Google Blogs About Google Base
After yesterday’s “inadvertent” unveiling of base.google.com, the search engine company provided some more details about what people saw and grabbed as screenshots.
Google’s Future in Auctions
When you leak news of further diversification, the market often punishes. After record earnings, though, this news of Google’s development of an auction service pushes the stock up another six bucks. I suppose that’s a buy on rumor reaction.
Forget About Sun/Google OpenOffice
The fevered speculation about a possible Google and Sun effort to make a hosted version of OpenOffice available should now come to an end. Finally, the two tech companies have come out and stomped on the hysteria about a hosted “Google Office” package.
Google Site Targeting Drops To $0.25 CPM
Apparently, CPM rates aren’t what they used to be, especially on crap sites. To recap: Google came out with the new Site Targeting content targeting option, allowing advertisers to show ads on specific sites.
German Publishers Fight Google Print
As publisher and author conflicts with Google heat up on the legal front over Google Print, publishers in Germany plan to avoid the problem by starting their own network.
Reverse Engineering Google’s Business Strategies
What’s in a name? That’s a good question. Some feel that the name that you are given at birth provides and accurate description of who you will turn out to be.
Google Geo-targeting RSS Ads
It was a surprise to everyone but Google that AdSense ads appearing in RSS feeds were geo-targeted just like site-based AdSense blocks.
Why Google Is Running Away From the Crowd
John Battelle analyzes why Google is running away from the crowd in the search space internet advertising space. Hey, I can tell you that one. I work for a Google competitor.