Google launched a privacy channel on YouTube on Wednesday with videos explaining its privacy policies. This move comes on the eve of a two-day Federal Trade Commission-hosted town hall event on behavioral ad targeting to be held in Washington, D.C. A video on Google’s new Privacy Channel on …

Google’s shares kissed the $700 mark in early morning trading Wednesday, marking a new first for the Internet giant and its soaring stock price. Google’s stock rose to more than $701 a share, following reports that it is pitching its “Gphone” to Verizon Wireless. The stock was up $…

Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. Google’s version of this “write once run anywhere” concept is called OpenSocial, a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that will enable developers …

Though almost everything Google touches seems to turn to gold, there is one project that never quite became ubiquitous (at least here in the U.S.). Orkut may have found a following in Brazil and Asia, but I don’t know anyone who uses the service. As Erick Schonfeld reports in TechCrunch, that may be about to change. Known internally as Maka-Maka, the project will prov

Google is the top choice among developers creating location-enhanced applications for wireless devices. Second choice is Microsoft and then Nokia, according to a new survey from Evans Data Corporation released Tuesday. The findings come at an opportune time for the search giant. Not a week goes by without some new …

BOSTON–When it comes to bragging rights and solar power, Google’s on top: it has the largest corporate installation of solar-powered electricity yet. But that apparently is just the beginning. The search giant is also considering other forms of renewable energy, according to Robyn Beavers, the director of environmental programs …

Google will unveil its long-anticipated plan to bring its software to cell phones within the next two weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported late on Monday citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. The “Google-powered” phones are expected to make it to market by mid-2008, possibly from Taiwan’s HTC, …

TechCrunch is reporting that Google’s rumored social networking plans, code-named “Maka-Maka” or maybe just “Makamaka,” will be announced later than Nov. 5 as earlier believed, possibly on the 8th or the 9th, and it will “most likely be limited to Google’s existing social network, Orkut.” Google won’t …

Concerned about what your customers say about you online? Well, you should be. You probably think you have your bases covered by allowing product reviews and client testimonials through your website, but the truth is that the blogosphere can make (or break) you as a company if Google includes a …

Google Analyst Day could have been big news for Google. Executives at the event on Wednesday trumpeted their enterprise Apps business, explained why they would bid on wireless spectrum, and said they were optimistic about getting approval to acquire DoubleClick, while trying as hard as they could to ignore the …

Update 12:15 PT MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–At its Analyst Day here Wednesday, Google talked up updates to the set-up for its popular iGoogle personal home page. But so far there’s no comment on word that Microsoft has beat out Google for a deal with Facebook or any new …

Gmail is getting support for IMAP clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, and the iPhone. This means that Gmail users will no longer limited to the Gmail.com user interface or to the weak integration they can get from clients using the much more rudimentary POP email protocol. There’s no word …

Google is partnering with Nielsen so that companies that buy its Google TV Ads can find out how many people actually watch the ads. Nielsen’s metering devices are installed in a large number of households across the U.S., enabling the company to keep track of which TV programs …

Google is going green with its online store. That means they are selling organic cotton T-shirts, pencils made of recycled blue jeans, and other recycled and eco-friendly materials. And instead of plastic polybagging, they are using recycled wraps and stickers. This is great news because plastic bags are a HUGE …

I’m beginning to think that besides search advertising, hiring is the thing Google does best. On Thursday, the company reported gains of 50 percent or so in quarterly profit and revenue from a year ago, beating analyst expectations. It wasn’t a stellar quarter, but it was pretty darn …

Three days after Google releases its copyright filtering technology for YouTube, the major studios announce an alliance and guidelines of their own. It’s all good and well, but things will remain in limbo until Google settles its copyright lawsuit with Viacom. Given that Google’s YouTube is the most …

The term Google Bowling has been floating around the Internet for a while now. The practice is one of many that can be put under the heading of Negative SEO, and while I’m not a proponent of these methods, they are worth noting: Google Bowling: As Google attempted to …

A Google phone concept mockup created by T3(Credit: T3) Taiwanese handset maker HTC is expected to ship about 50,000 cell phones by the end of this year that use a mobile operating system from Google, according to a Fortune article that cites a report from a UBS analyst….

Earlier today Google unveiled some new and upcoming features being added to their Analytics service at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Site owners will soon be getting a way to see what their users are searching for within the site, potentially making it easier for them to reorganize, …

Greer Park in upscale Palo Alto, Calif., isn’t what you would call dirty. Nor is it sprayed with graffiti, broken down, rusty or disheveled. In fact, nothing on the surface would indicate the need for a concentrated effort by Google employees and friends participating in Google’s first International Cleanup Weekend, …

Google says it has a new system for identifying pirated video on YouTube as it gets uploaded, but the system puts the burden on movie studios and other content owners to provide YouTube copies of the content first. Content owners provide the video to YouTube and specify whether they want …

(Credit: Netcraft)Glyn Moody notes that Apache’s lead in web servers over Microsoft’s IIS is at its skinniest ever: 10%. Apache continues to gain (1 million sites last month). The problem is that Microsoft’s IIS is also growing, and at a faster clip (3 million sites last …

(Credit: Google)Keeping its Linux fan base in mind, Google has updated its Desktop for Linux, which it launched in June. With version 1.1, still in beta, you can search over more image formats and search the content of Microsoft Office documents. The thumbnails in search results are higher …

These days, there are several ways to get a customized or internal search engine free of charge. Google’s Custom Search Engine (CSE) and Yahoo’s Search Builder lead the way, and their products are fairly easy to implement. After the Big Two, there are several services trying to make …

Gmail users running short on storage are getting a reprieve starting today. The company has announced they’ll be increasing the speed in which they’ve been adding storage to their popular e-mail service, along with bumps to Google Apps users. You might have seen the storage counter that’s …

In a blind “taste test” searchers chose Google, then Microsoft and Yahoo. That’s according to the results of a poll created last week by the
Google Operating System blog. Participants could try out three unidentified search engines and vote which had the best results. The results are in and …

The fun thing about having lots of money is you can buy as many toys as you want. Over at Google it’s a veritable playground. A company controlled by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt, with the strange name of H211 LLC, has an …

If you were waiting for YouTube to roll out a maps feature to browse geotagged videos, the solution has come in the form of a new Google Earth layer released today. With the layer enabled, videos will pop up anywhere you are on the map and play on the video’…

Search is a constantly evolving and changing entity, and this year has certainly seen more than its fair share of change. Possibly highest on the list has been the move to blended or universal results. Much of the focus and discussion has revolved around Google Universal, but they aren’t …

Google has added six new cities to its Google Maps Street View, as well as the ability to pan to the top of skyscrapers. The new cities with the 360-degree view are: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. And the images in Phoenix, Tucson and parts of Chicago are …

Google is acquiring Helsinki, Finland-based mobile social-networking provider Jaiku, also known as Twitter’s competitor. (Credit: Jaiku) The news was announced on Jaiku’s Web site: “Exciting news: Jaiku is joining Google! While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new …

Google is expanding its AdSense program so that Web site publishers can display and make money off embedded video clips from YouTube content partners that have targeted banner or text ads, in addition to the traditional text ads that Google offers. Pretty soon Web sites will be able to get …

Way back in the dark ages - before cell phones, reality TV, or social networks - there was big iron. In those archaic times, computers were actually used for computing, as opposed to watching porn or idiotic video clips. The computing giants of the day included IBM, Digital Equipment, Unisys (…

IBM and Google on Monday released details on their “academic cluster computing initiative” to provide data centers for remote computer programming. The centers would allow a larger number of students and programmers to have access and processing power for writing software code involving massive amounts of data over the Internet, …

A tech industry legend who claims Google fired him because he was too old to fit into the company “culture” has just won another shot at making his case in court. A California state appeals court in San Jose on Thursday threw out a lower court’s decision to dismiss …

Google has just announced the latest project to bubble up out of Google Earth–International Cleanup Weekend, a coordinated global effort taking place Saturday, October 13, and Sunday, October 14, 2007, at locations throughout the world. Who’s doing the organizing? You are, naturally, using Google Maps to plot cleanup sites. What began as an internal corporate eco

Move over Microsoft. Google is beefing up its outsourced e-mail offering aimed at corporations and universities, adding security features that large companies demand. Three weeks after closing its acquisition of Postini, Google has integrated the company’s security and government regulation services into Google Apps Premier Edition. That suite includes …

Google has been ordered to pay 10,000 euros (about $14,000) for using the “m.gmail.com” domain for mobile search in Germany in violation of a court order in a trademark case. “We will pay the money to the German State as required by the Court of Appeal …

Recruiting at Google just got easier. The search giant opened its first San Francisco office on Monday. The office is located on Spear Street in the tech-heavy South of Market area. And apparently it has a view of the Bay. It’s unclear how many employees are there, although there …

The data protection commissioner of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has come out against Google’s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. Such a merger would “lead to a massive violation of data privacy rights” for consumers in the European Union if the databases of the two companies …

I know Google is getting into a lot of areas, shaking up the ad industry, moving into the enterprise space with hosted apps (much to Microsoft’s chagrin), even betting on wireless and 700MHz spectrum. But banking? Granted, Google offers Google Checkout as a payment method option to merchants and …