Ben Charny

Google Inc. on Sunday added a free traffic-tracking feature to its advertising system, known as AdWords, as the Internet search giant tries to keep pace with advances by rivals. Google Analytics, as the new feature is called, details the activities of visitors to a Web site, including the number of visitors at any given time […]

As far as anyone at the venerable Internet site Craigslist knew on Friday, an advertisement that a California woman allegedly used to pimp her 4-year-old daughter for $500 is still posted on the site. In fact, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said the Martinez Police never contacted the company during their investigation, which led to the […]

The instant message appears to be catching up to e-mail as the favored way to communicate using the Internet, suggests a new survey conducted by America Online. Of the 4,000 people interviewed by America Online, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., a quarter of them preferred IM, the electronic messages that appear unprompted on a […]

Microsoft Corp. is embracing the latest supposed elixir for a problem holding back Internet telephony. The software giant, with the help of networking hardware kingpin Cisco Systems Inc., intends to add ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment) programming to many Microsoft software releases starting in 2006, said Russell Bennett, a Microsoft program manager. Why is Microsoft doing […]

Google Inc. on Thursday added a results screener and other new features to its personalized Internet search service, which draws upon a users Internet search history to better focus results. The upgrades are typical of ceaseless tit-for-tat features one-upmanship among Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp.s MSN and other search leaders. The competition is particularly fierce […]

Search giant Google Inc. wants to patent something it calls “Google Automat,” which analysts suggest is another major piece of its online retailing and advertising strategy. UBS Investment Research analyst Benjamin Schachter, and Florida-based Classified Intelligence, a classified ad strategist, on Wednesday both described Google Automat as a way for individuals, or small advertisers, to […]

Internet telephony was once for underdog firms able to muster up a few hundred thousand dollars in investments. But thats not the case anymore, and perhaps federal regulations have played a large role. The present-day landscape is very different from what early VOIP (voice over IP) entrepreneurs had in mind for the freely available software […]

Internet search giant Google Inc. on Tuesday began aggressively pursuing patrons of Verity Inc., making a play upon possible customer fears about Veritys coming acquisition. To take advantage of the supposed opportunity, on Tuesday Google began giving away its least expensive Google corporate search product, its Mini, to new Google Enterprise customers through January 2006, […]

There is new debate whether Google Inc. and other leading search engines should standardize the way computer programmers get at their storehouses of information. Also at issue is how often a developers application is entitled to dip into a search engines Internet catalogs. The discussion focuses on a common API, a way in which computer […]

Internet giant Yahoo Inc.s latest endeavor, a cell phone service, will use the network of Cingular Wireless, a source said Monday. Its choice of cell phone network operator is a significant one, though to some degree expected. When well-known brands ranging from “Ma Bell” AT&T to the Virgin retailing empire of Sir Richard Branson wanted […]