Steve Bryant

Google signed its first “Sponsored Video” yesterday, hooking up with geeky entertainers Eepybird, who performed the original Diet Coke and Mentos video. Eepybird’s second soda and candy experiement video is now showing on Google Video. As of this writing its received almost 100,000 views. Professional video producers interested in partnering with Google in its Sponsored […]

When Google buys big, they buy really big. According to New York Magazine, one of the Google co-founders recently bought space in the tower section of 15 Central Park West, a yet-to-be-completed behemoth in Manhattan that also houses Denzel Washington, Sting, and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb. Either Larry or Sergey reportedly paid as much […]

A former undercover CIA agent said that Google is secretly working with the spy agency. According to Robert David Steele, who was once the second highest-ranking civilian in the U.S. Marine Corps, Google is “in bed with” and working in tandem with the CIA. Steele cites his sources within the CIA and his contacts at […]

A Kansas man was busted at a Wichita Wal-Mart last week for trying to meet a 13-year-old girl he first encountered in a Yahoo chat room, according to a search warrant filed in Kansas federal district court. The suspect drove a T-top Pontiac Trans Am. The 13-year-old girl turned out to be an FBI agent. […]

A blogger discovered an apparent working prototype of a new product search tool that will replace Froogle and provide a radically new interface for Google Base. The new tool, discovered by Garett Rogers, offers a series of refinement boxes for search queries including brand, condition, gender, and price. The results page also offers three formats […]

This would be geek nirvana, but there aren’t any girls. One hundred of the best and brightest coders (all dudes, natch) competed today in Google’s Manhattan headquarters for head geek honors and their share of $151,000 in prize money. Google flew the contestants to NYC from around the world. The winner will be announced tonight […]

Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio to monetize podcasts sometime this quarter, according to sources. I’ve been sitting on this news for months out of deference to a colleague’s wishes, but today Seeking Alpha has some information on it too, so I thought I might as well post. Earlier this year, Google contracted […]

Google plans to test internally a new Google News prototype, push more Google Pack downloads for novice users and sell over $1 billion in advertising inventory, according to leaked internal documents. The two documents — titled “Big Goals and Directions” and “Objectives and Key Results – Q3 2006 Company OKRs” — reveal several internal goals […]

Liberal bloggers are trying to manipulate Google results for Republican candidates to Google Bomb their reputations into the gutter. The campaign, originally conceived by Chris Bowers, was originally targeted at 70 Republicans but was scaled back to 50, according to the New York Times. The bloggers repeatedly reference the target Republicans, link to local and/or […]

“If you don’t know Keira Knightley, she’s basically a slightly more mannish version of Orlando Bloom.” — askaninja.com Further reinforcing the notion that we’re all easily-suggestible, credit card-wielding lemmings with poor taste in movies, Hitwise is reporting that “pirate costume” is the most popular Halloween-related search term this season, apparently due to the success of […]