Ben Charny

The security buzzards are doing their thing now that Google Inc. and other search giants are adding Internet phone calls into search advertisements. By tinkering with something like click-to-call as Google’s been doing, Internet search providers open up their customers to IP and marketing baddies that have corrupted other Internet facets. It’s classic cause-and-effect, or […]

Google’s Web page maker meant for the regular guy, the one that doesn’t know what HTML is, can be downloaded here. But wait a little while, Google says for now it has run out of capacity for any more accounts. “We decided in advance to limit the number of page sign-ups in order to provide […]

Yahoo Search has a new feature to pinpoint specific details within Wikipedia-created Web pages that show up in its search results. The development is part of the tit-for-tat arms race that Yahoo, Google and other search engines are engaged in. Because each business is advertising-based, new features, especially exclusive ones, can drive more revenue-creating traffic. […]

A Texas company will soon offer a free click fraud fighter to root out fraudulent or mistaken reports about how well an online advertising campaign is doing. The company says its technology is a first free “independent” alternative to the click fraud detection performed by Internet search providers. The technology from Click Forensics, Inc., a […]

SAP says it may enhance its NetWeaver line-up of corporate computing features with a powerful new search technique. “Bottom line is that this is an area we are examining, as we are doing with many areas related to business intelligence, but customer needs will dictate what actually is added to the product,” an SAP spokeswoman […]

Google Inc. has released a new version of its computer desktop search feature aimed at businesses. It’s available here. The feature is free, but it comes with options that aren’t. The new release, in beta, lets IT network administrators shut down any of the features. That includes controversial ones, like Google’s Search Across Computers that […]

SAP AG says it may enhance its NetWeaver lineup of corporate computing features with a powerful new search technique. “Bottom line is that this is an area we are examining, as we are doing with many areas related to business intelligence, but customer needs will dictate what actually is added to the product,” an SAP […]

The ongoing Mashup Camp show in Palo Alto, Calif., is teeming with companies claiming theyve found Internet search features that search giants like Google either havent found yet, have rejected or just plain missed. For instance, PodBops feature searches based on a geographic location and podcasts by bands set to appear in those locales. It […]

The ongoing Mashup Camp show in Palo Alto, Calif. is teeming with companies claiming they’ve found features that search giants, in particular Google, haven’t yet, rejected, or just flat missed. For instance, PodBop‘s feature searches based on a geographic location and podcasts by bands set to appear in those locales. It’s rumored to have won […]

News publisher MediaNews Group has emerged as a candidate to buy Knight Ridder, an elite U.S. newspaper chain, says a source. It’s a potentially volatile mix, when comparing the respective views about the Internet. Knight Ridder was among the first of the nation’s elite newspaper publishers to follow the flow of advertising dollars online. Meanwhile, […]