Ben Charny

Items added by Google users to Google Base, Google’s free listings feature, are now part of the search results of comparison shopper Froogle, plus the Google Maps localized search engine, Google recently said. Google felt the need June 1 to set the record straight about where Base items go, after several news reports over the […]

Google’s introduced Reply by Chat, which lets Gmail e-mail users move their conversations to the Google Talk instant messaging application, or a Gmail feature called “chat.” So if you’re about to reply to a Gmail e-mail message, you can instead send your reply as a chat message, says a Google representative. The Reply by Chat […]

The U.S. Postal Service was recently asked to start delivering packages and letters based on someones e-mail rather than street address. The request is from Los Angeles-based Inventerprise LLC, which wants to conduct a trial run of its so-called Shelmail e-mail-to-snail addressing system sometime in 2008. The Shelmail proposal is noteworthy because it suggests that […]

Recent comments by Google execs make it clear that Google views Dell Computer as its secret weapon against chief nemesis Microsoft. In fact, there’s lots of evidence pointing to an important nexus between Google’s recently rebuffed antitrust allegations about a new Microsoft Web browser and the three-year-long deal Google recently reached with Dell. The connection […]

Yahoo is the latest Internet locale that’s seemingly been won over by the YouTube phenomenon. Starting June 1, Yahoo will let anyone contribute a video to the search engine’s trove of tens of millions now available. The files will be sprinkled into Yahoo’s No. 3 ranked video search engine results, once wrung through Yahoo filters […]

A majority of all the Internet searches conducted in April were carried out through Google, Nielsen/NetRatings found in a report issued last week that might as well be a coronation. This report, and another from ComScore that had Google at or near a majority, if anything suggest that Google’s Internet search market share lead may […]

Four years after first establishing a presence in Australia, Google’s opened up a new office in Sydney, and is now looking to hire a few dozen more locals. Expect more moves like this from Google, which, like rival Yahoo, is in the midst of an aggressive overseas expansion. Both firms say they expect that revenues […]

California registered voters can now take part in an experimental political fantasy camp. At Wicracy, launched last week, participants create a platform of issues they hope a real political party will adopt as its own. The exclusively online sausage-making (PDF) at Wicracy involves voting blocks, ad hoc committees, party platforms and the other usual trappings […]

Google says it’s testing a way in which someone could buy goods from a well-known merchant, such as Apple Computer, via a Google account. News of the online channel to sell “high-quality” merchants’ products via Google accounts surfaced this weekend on Inside Google. The tests were later confirmed by Google executives during a conference call […]

Despite a recent headline-grabbing trademark enforcement, Google seems to have settled on a live-and-let-live attitude about many of its chief trademark offenders, namely Web sites with names that sound like Google that offer Internet search. There are now seven of these Web locales, Boogle, Qoogle, Xoogle, Woogle, Loogle, Ooogle and Voogle, and they apparently operate […]