Ben Charny

Internet search giant Yahoo, along with several universities and two European archives, say they intend to make books available on the Internet later this year. The entities, known collectively as the OCA (Open Content Alliance), represent how major search engines like Google, which has a similar project called Google Print, now emphasize the quantity of […]

Blogger/entrepreneur Dave Pell has unleashed a way to build your own miniature Google. Each Rollyo, as the personalized search engines are known, is accessed through the Rollyo Web site, and then scours up to 25 Web sites of your own choosing. Rollyos can be made for private use, or opened to the general Internet public […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Long-suffering sports fans dismiss each disappointing season with the lament “wait until next year.” The cell phone industry is no different when it comes to getting people to use their handsets Internet connection to search the Web. Despite a bevy of new technology and services, searching the Internet using cell phones is, for the […]

Google Inc. claims its search engines scour three times more Web sites than Yahoo Inc. and other nearest competitors. Its difficult, however, to compare the size of search engines indexes of Web sites, given that some listings are inaccessible or duplicative. Google, which made the claim late Monday, said it now plans to stop publicly […]

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave some Internet telephone operators a quasi-reprieve and others a few more weeks time to meet new emergency dialing requirements. The rules set to take effect Wednesday, but no longer, impact operators doling out VOIP (voice over IP), a burgeoning new industry for dispensing the software and hardware to turn Internet […]

By finding a more precise way to target an audience, Microsoft becomes a serious challenge to Yahoo and Google, the leading suppliers of the ads alongside Internet search results, a Microsoft analyst believes. On Monday, Microsoft Corp. said its on track for an October U.S. debut for adCenter, a process advertisers in Singapore and France […]

Microsoft on Monday unveiled an improved Internet advertising system that lets companies target a more precise audience based on sex, age and location. The technology is now serving up ads alongside MSN search inquiries from Singapore and France. U.S. testing of what Microsoft Corp. calls adCenter begins in October, Microsoft said in a statement. Microsoft […]

A recently filed lawsuit claiming Googles digitizing of library books is a “massive” copyright violation will deter libraries from opening their collections to the search giant, which could ultimately doom the effort, say legal experts. Libraries are not now a defendant in the U.S. District Court complaint against Google filed earlier Tuesday by The Authors […]

Google Inc. announced a kind of Google school for systems integrators and other initiatives Thursday in order to bolster sales of its specialized search products for businesses. The new effort is, in essence, a program to train and otherwise assist systems integrators, consultants, resellers and corporate information technology managers in all things Google. Googles search […]

Telephone companies typically own some sort of network and offer telephone service and access to high-speed Internet connections. Now, so does Google. So should people start calling the search giant a phone company? Not yet, but some Google Inc. watchers say the search giant appears headed in that direction. Speculation about Googles phone company aspirations […]