Steve Bryant

YouTube has moved to dismiss a lawsuit from Universal Tube and Rollform Manufacturing Corporation, arguing that Universal’s claims are baseless and the company is simply looking to cash in on YouTube’s success, Google Watch has learned. For background on the case, see UTube Files Suit Against YouTube and UTube Amends Complaint. In a 28-page motion […]

Innerestin.’ Security reporter and all-around ubermensch Ryan Naraine IMd me a few seconds ago to say Google Maps has added subway stations to Google Maps in NYC. Sho’ nuff, there they are. It’s also added common nicknames to streets. Useful. But not as useful as the Google Maps mashup at onnyturf.com/subway, which, despite being slow […]

Powerset, the company that’s made no secret of wanting to challenge Google’s search dominance, has seeded a few publications–and thus the whole tech blogosphere, sigh–with the news that it’s reached an exclusive deal to license PARC’s search technology. In a way, Powerset is turning Google’s marketing strategy against it. Years ago, Google had the audacity […]

Google Docs is now available in French, German, Italian, traditional Chinese and eight other languages. Somebody should tell the Russian teacher who’s being sued for using pirated copies of Microsoft software that Google Docs would be a good alternative next time. Gorbachev: This guy could end up in a Siberian jail. Gates: Whatevs.

You know you’ve reached the pinnacle of success when you are literally required by law to tell people how well-heeled you are. Such is the case with YouTube’s founders, whose YouTube payout was revealed in Google’s SEC filing yesterday: Chad Hurley received 694,087 Google shares and another 41,232 shares in a trust. Based on Google’s […]

Almost three years after its launch, Gmail is now available to all comers. Google continues to refer to the e-mail app as a beta product. When the Gmail launched on April Fool’s Day in 2004 and offered 1GB of storage, a lot of folks thought Google was pulling their leg. After all, Hotmail and Yahoo […]

Google’s plan to provide free Wi-Fi to all of San Francisco has been facing a few roadblocks of late. Although San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and EarthLink last year agreed to contract terms that would allow EarthLink to be the sole wireless ISP for the city, a subsequent Board of Supervisors’ Budget Analyst Report titled […]

Google released yesterday a Webmaster Central tool that allows site owners to view and download thousands of links to their sites. As Danny notes at Search Engine Land, Google has intentionally crippled link reporting for years, as the information could be useful to spammers or nefarious SEOs. Google has thus made the new link-reporting tool […]

Google has responded to Indian concerns and will censor images of sensitive military and scientific establishments in India, according to The Economic Times and AFX News. Google has capitulated to the Indian request after the Telegraph reported that terrorists were using Google Earth to plan attacks on military facilities in Iraq. For a list of […]

Telegraph UK speculates that several European mobile carriers — including Vodaphone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and one American network, Cingular — will meet in Barecelona this week to discuss building a mobile search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The carriers would need to band together to offer enough inventory […]