Ben Charny

Google Toolbar for Enterprise, made available Monday as a beta, is the search companys first Web browser tool bar to target corporate-class computer networks. The feature is proof that Google continues to aggressively challenge Autonomy, Fast Search & Transfer, and other popular enterprise search providers. Google also unveiled on Monday a beta update of its […]

There are new signs of Google Inc.’s rumored “Big Daddy” infrastructure overhaul. Judging from the recent plethora of evidence cited by Google watchers, it seems that Big Daddy has spread to much more of Google’s network. Big Daddy, the project’s supposed nickname, refers to new data centers that Google developing and now testing. Google and […]

Hitting on: …Forbes, which reports on a Bear Stearns research note predicting an iTunes competitor from Google “which we’ve dubbed Google Tunes. We think this is a logical step now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced.” Expect a test of the service within 3 to 6 months. Google hasn’t confirmed any of […]

There are some new signs of Google Inc.s rumored “Big Daddy” infrastructure overhaul, search engine industry sources say. The evidence, now winding through the online community, led one Google aficionado screen-named SEOBrains to recently write “It seems like Big Daddy is 100 percent live.” Sources contacted by eWEEK have confirmed many recent examples cited by […]

Microsofts MSN Spaces blogging features has, as expected, undergone a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon. Word of the pending features filtered out earlier this week. The new Spaces features went online sometime Thursday. MSN Spaces is one of the most popular of the current class of […]

What Marquette University Assistant Law Professor Eric Goldman said today: “It’s legislative opportunism. It’s classic (bad) cyberlaw.” What he was reacting to: U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA) intends to introduce a bill next legislative session to prohibit Internet search engines from storing details about their customers for an infinite period of time. After a […]

Watch out, academics, the Internets mighty portals are after your brain power. The latest of these one-stop shops of free Internet services on campus is Microsoft, operator of the MSN and Live.com Internet destinations. Microsoft has begun taking applications for a total of $500,000 in academic research funding, enough for a dozen or so projects. […]

In the blink of a few recent news reports, using an Internet search engine has lost its innocence. For entrepreneurs like Roger Dingledine and others making Web anonymity software, that means basking in newfound attention. In the last week, traffic to Dingledines Free Haven Project, where free software to anonymize Web sessions is available, has […]

Roger Dingledine created The Free Haven Project, a free software for anonymous and censorship-resistant Internet use. EWEEK’S GOOGLE WATCH Has the news that search engines turned over millions of search queries to the feds done you guys any good? It must have people running scared! “We’re up to something like 200,000 active users at this […]

Microsofts MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources. What Liveside.Net, and other Microsoft watchers are describing is the latest version of MSN Spaces, which is one of the most popular of the current class of free […]