Steve Bryant

How’s that for a holiday bonus. Google’s stock price topped $500 for the first time today, breaking an anticipated high water mark. The stock opened in 2004 at $85. Some analysts predict the stock could rise over $600.Gooogle also announced today the results of a commissioned survey about holiday shopping trends, and announced shopping incentives […]

The world’s three largest search engines agreed this week to support the same protocol for submitting Web pages to their crawlers.Google created the protocol, known as sitemaps, in June 2005 as an experiment to help webmasters increase their visibility in Google’s search index. Microsoft and Yahoo agreed to support the protocol yesterday. As part of […]

Yahoo’s share of search traffic has grown faster than Google’s in the last year, according to new data from Nielsen//Netratings.Nielsen’s October U.S. search share rankings show Yahoo with 1.46B searches, up 30% from last year and representing 23.9% of all U.S. searches. Google was used for 3.02B searches, up 23% from last year. Google is […]

I didn’t touch a computer once in four days of Thanksgiving-inspired gluttony. But the news doesn’t stop when you’re on holiday. Here’s a quick wrap-up of Google News from the last few days. Google Settles with Belgian PublishersAgreement with photogs and journalists allows Google to make “extensive use of their content.” Google Video Sued in […]

Update: Man, I’m out of it. Google actually called me to say — in its best George Burns impression — that they issued a press release about this. Turns out the whole Africa thing is because Africa is the spotlight nation continent for national geography week. So there ya go.The Google Maps logo is graced […]

Google will be expanding its Mobile AdWords trial to eight new countries, a Google representative said today at the ThinkEquity Partners Media Convergence Summit.John Hanke, product director for Google Maps and Google Earth, did not divulge the names of the new countries. Google is currently testing mobile AdWords in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany […]

One of the most common questions people ask about Google is whether the search-cum-media company is friend or foe. [1]The answer, of course, is both. Like the guitar starship on the cover of a Boston album, Google looms. The company’s business is almost a carapace of computing power, surrounding any form of content and threatening […]

The Journal published a leaked memo from Yahoo that reveals mismanagement and confusion in the ranks. Poor company has lost its way. Maybe it’s time to change the exclamation point after the logo to an interrobang?Speaking of grammar, WTF is up with Brad Garlinghouse’s prose? There are enough hackneyed aphorisms, tired analogies and generally obtuse […]

Google announced today that they have closed their acquisition of video-sharing site YouTube. To complete the $1.65 billion sale announced October 9, Google issued “217,560 shares, and restricted stock units, options and a warrant exercisable for or convertible into an aggregate of 442,210 shares, of Google’s Class A common stock.” The stock price was averaged […]

A majority of Christians who use the Internet prefer Google search over Yahoo or MSN, according to a poll by ChristiaNet.com. Of 266 Poll respondents on ChristiaNet.com, 125 felt that Google was the best search engine over MSN and Yahoo. However, respondents said they frequently use all three search engines. 108 participants preferred Yahoo, and […]