Steve Bryant

That headline joke never gets old. Via Google Blogoscoped forums via Google Operating System, the news that Google image search now lets you restrict searches to faces. The implementation is still being tested, apparently, hence the awkward controls: You have to insert &imgtype=face in the URL query string. And so, the normal results for the […]

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is suing several video sites, including YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of car crash footage recorded on the turnpike, eWEEK has learned. The footage in question was recorded by a NJTA video camera. The video depicts a car traveling southbound on the New Jersey Turnpike and crashing into the […]

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) is suing several video sites, including YouTube, for infringing on copyrighted car crash footage recorded on the turnpike. I’ve seen the video in question. It’s pretty grisly. You can go find it if you want. Shows a car smacking into a toll plaza in Jersey. The 52-year old driver […]

The news yesterday evening: Google will buy RSS publisher Feedburner for $100 million. What to call it? Googburner? Feedboogle? Fondleburger? Whatever. Let’s just call the Internet Google and get it over with. That’s only half a joke: Google buys or invests in growth trends online. Whatever technology has the potential of bringing more people online […]

“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask questions such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ ” That’s Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking to journalists in London, where he reiterated the company’s interest in personalized advertising. “We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we […]

The FCC should allow radio spectrum to be allocated in the same kind of real-time auction as Google allocates advertising keywords, the search giant said in a proposal filed with the FCC this week. “The driving reason we’re doing this is that there are not enough broadband options for consumers,” Adam Kovacevich, a spokesperson for […]

However did people win radio trivia contests before the advent of the Internet? Taking a look at the newly launched “Hot Trends” component of Google Trends, you’ll see that two of today’s early morning hot trends are “what part of a graduate’s costume gave the cordon bleu cooking school its name” and “what sports league […]

Google Maps now offers localized neighborhood searches, helping users find locations within informally defined city areas. The upgrade to Google Maps, announced on the Google Maps and Earth blog, comes on the heels of Yahoo’s upgrade to their mapping service. That upgrade offers driving directions in 34 European countries. The Google upgrade allows users to […]

Update: Google denies they’ve signed any deals with UK news publishers. Google has reportedly reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News, according to Scotland’s Sunday Herald. The news follows Google’s recent agreement with Belgium publishers, an agreement with the Associated Press and an out-of-court settlement with Agent […]

Google is working on a partnership agreement with Salesforce.com in which the G Poppa would add its productivity apps to Salesforce’s CRM suite, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The article follows speculation from Justin Maynard, an analyst at Credit Suisse, who argued that a Google/Salesforce partnership could help the latter compete […]