Ben Charny

Google presumably had a long time to get ready for its annual press day, when it invites 250 or so journalists into the Googleplex for a day of news scoops, time with Google’s top three execs, lunch and some free pens. The place glistened on April 9. An outdoor waiting area was picture perfect: lots […]

There’s anecdotal evidence suggesting that hundreds of Google advertisers will object to Google’s proposed payment of $90 million to settle a click-fraud class action lawsuit in Arkansas, according to an attorney involved in the case. The exact number won’t be known until around June 15. That’s when the 30-day period ends for Google advertisers to […]

On May 11, the Humane Society of the United States, the country’s largest defender of animal rights, formally recognized Google for banishing from its dining facilities eggs laid by hens confined within cages or tiny enclosures. That’s a lot of eggs. Google’s infamous campus cafeterias dish out 7,000 gallons of liquefied eggs, and 300,000 shell […]

There are only moral victories for those behind a proposal to significantly reduce the voting powers of Internet search giant Googles top three executives. The issue was defeated at Googles shareholder meeting on April 11. The Bricklayers & Trowel Trades International Pension Funds idea—that buyers of any kind of Google stock get a single vote […]

Internet search giant Google recently introduced a series of new products, and has more in the works, that suggest the company may be making its move to claim the heart of the business computer desktop. This is all implied, of course; the word “enterprise” was never uttered during the entire 6-hour Google Press Day event […]

Google Co-op seems to be one of those Google features where it might take some people a lot of time to understand what all the fuss is about. Co-op was one of four new wrinkles Google unveiled at Google Press Day 2006. It was also the only one that drew a lot of “what the […]

Mountain View, Calif. – At Google Press Day on April 10, Google announced several new Internet search features including Google Health as it tries to fend off rival Microsoft, called its chief competitor a “convicted monopolist”, expressed an interest in TV ads and much more. What follows is an attempt to capture some of the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Internet search giant Google has a series of new products, and more in the works, that suggest the company may be making its move to claim the heart of the business computer desktop. This is all implied, of course; the word “enterprise” was never uttered during the entire 6-hour Google Press Day event […]

Web site operators are clamoring to understand what can best be described as an ongoing disturbance in the Google Force. Googles search engine, once a clean, lean indexing machine, from a Webmasters perspective has been slipping badly lately. Starting about two months ago, site operators have complained that their Web sites have suddenly disappeared from […]

Google said April 9 that it had “inadvertently” reactivated old AdWords advertising accounts in the last few days, surprising hundreds of people who thought the accounts had been long ago been dumped. The accounts were usually long-dormant because the search terms that advertisers chose to associate their links with weren’t clicked upon enough. In some […]