So I’ve been meaning to do some write-ups on some browser toolbars and plugins that may be useful for SEO purposes . . . and leave it to Rand at SEOmoz to remind me of this with his review of 12 popular browser toolbars. Link Counter is one that I absolutely love …

Google invited hundreds of folks, mostly from D.C.'s tech policy set, to nibble on hors d'ouerves at the opening of its new Washington digs, which temporarily took on a nightclub-like glow.(Credit: Anne Broache/CNET News.com) WASHINGTON–I now know the real reason why Google …

WASHINGTON–Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Thursday suggested NASA could learn a few things from his company. Google CEO Eric Schmidt was the keynote speaker at a Washington luncheon commemorating NASA's 50th anniversary.(Credit: Anne Broache/CNET News.com) Speaking at a luncheon series to commemorate the agency’…

Google.org’s technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public health threats is expected to launch Thursday. The project, called Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disaster (InSTEDD), is a nonprofit organization that ambitiously aims to help communities around the world use Web …

Vic Gundotra, vice president of mobile and developer at Google, shows of the new user interface of Google Web apps for the iPhone being unveiled at Macworld on Monday.(Credit: Google) On Christmas Day thousands of people opened up boxes with something cool and functional inside and wasted no time …

Two of the most useful online services have got to be maps and weather. With this in mind, The Weather Channel Interactive is offering a new mapplet for Google Maps that lets people add customizable weather layers to maps and see weather data on Google Earth (download here). One click …

Google just keeps getting more popular for search. The latest figures from Hitwise, which monitors search market share, show Google with a record 66 percent share of Web searches in the United States for the month of December 2007. Google had just over 63 percent for the same period a …

With the recent admission by Matt Cutts to Stephan Spencer that Google is using Adobe’s Search Engine SDK technology, a new set of optimization opportunities opened up. That fairly definite confirmation of how Google reads text within Flash files makes it possible to create Flash .swf files with some …

Google may not have monopoly power, but it certainly has monopoly mind share. As The New York Times reports, Google’s search market share has jumped from 58 percent in March 2006 to 65.1 percent today. Yahoo? Less than one-third of Google’s share. Microsoft? Less than one-ninth. Monopoly? …