Ben Charny

Internet search giant Google Inc. confirmed Thursday it’s fighting a Bush administration request to review Google customers’ search habits.The administration, via the U.S. Department of Justice, has asked Google for several days’ worth of activity at Google’s main search site. The million or so queries the government seeks will serve as the raw material for […]

Yahoo Inc. said that it recently turned over information about its users searching habits to federal investigators, a startling admission that has touched off a new round of privacy concerns. As previously reported, search inquiries may be evidence in an upcoming trial that the government hopes will revive a controversial 1998 Internet law to protect […]

According to his employment contract, Eric Schmidt is now sitting on stock options valued at $1.5 billion. Although his company offers Gmail brand e-mail, for the longest time Schmidt used his Yahoo email address, ericschmidt1@yahoo.com, on his home page. Blacklist me, Eric.

Internet search giant Google Inc. confirmed Thursday that it is resisting a Bush administration request to review Google customer search habits. The administration, via the U.S. Department of Justice, has asked Google for several days worth of activity at its main search site. The million or so queries the government seeks are to serve as […]

Suzanne Beecher lays claim to inventing the e-mail book club. Her “Chapter a Day” book club debuted in 1999 as a daily e-mail containing an entire book chapter from her to friends and family. The club consumed entire publications this way. The nonprofit venture and hobby has since morphed into Dear Reader, a virtual book […]

If you want a really, really accurate map, you got to get your information directly from the municipality you’re mapping. Anything else, and you risk look like you’re throwing darts with a blindfold on. Yet, Google and other online directions/mapping features providers usually get their goods from third parties who gather up this information themselves, […]

Internet search provider Google Inc. said Monday it’s buying digital radio specialist dMarc Broadcasting in order for Google advertisers to reach radio listeners. Google plans to incorporate add dMarc’s system for delivering radio ads into its own feature, called adSense, for automating the Internet ad process, according to a statement describing the deal. The technology […]

Its so far been a one-colored balloon world for the bevy of modern-day combination mapping, localized search and shopping features. But now comes Google Inc.s blue balloon, and a new twist on mapvertising. Balloons are a graphical element commonly found on Internet-based mapping features. They are used to mark the known street address of any […]

Internet search provider Google Inc. said Monday that it is buying digital radio specialist dMarc Broadcasting so that Google advertisers can reach radio listeners. dMarcs system for delivering radio ads will soon be incorporated into Googles adSense feature for Web publishers, according to a statement describing the deal. The technology integration will “grow and improve […]

A sentiment is growing among Google Inc. customers and industry observers that the famously innovative company may have lost its touch. The gathering unease about some of Googles moves was summed up by a contributor to the Web site Techdirt writing about his disappointment with Google Video, the Mountain View, Calif., companys new video download […]