Steve Bryant

The search giant invited executives from major networks, media companies, NASA, the top librarian from the U.S. Library of Congress and former Vice President Al Gore to a think thank summit at its Mountain View headquarters this week. The event was the second annual Google Partner Forum, according to TVWeek, and other attendees included CBS […]

After watching sites like Koders and Krugle grab some headlines for code search, Google has rolled its own code-specific engine, which is now available as a beta from Google Labs. Code Search is the latest in Google’s efforts to embrace the developer community and give it useful tools. The search engine launched a repository for […]

Rock band The Knack has sued several online music distributors, including Yahoo, Amazon and Apple, for distributing copies of Run DMC’s song “It’s Tricky,” which contains an unauthorized sample of The Knack’s “My Sharona.” In a 49-page complaint filed last month, The Knack’s front man Doug Fieger and lead guitarist Berton Averre claim that Run […]

Google released yesterday a new service that allows Web publishers to insert small, JavaScript-based widgets into their blog or Web site. There are 1,220 Google Gadgets for your Web page, most of which were already available for inclusion in Google homepage and Google Desktop. Example gadgets include Google Video, maps, weather and time.Google follows several […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the UK’s conservative party yesterday that politicians don’t understand the importance of the Internet, or that Internet content can alter people’s perceptions of their leaders. In an interview with the Financial Times, Schmidt said his speech to the conservative party was part of a global attempt to educate the world’s […]

The search engine market has metastastized into an online media market. The bar set by the world’s largest search engine now includes a heckuva lot more than fancy algorithms running in a data center. So how much is a good piece of Google-killing software worth? Today there’s news that a company called Powerset is trying […]

Google hosted a small open house at their new Manhattan offices today. They were kind enough to invite me, so I lugged along my ancient digital camera and took twenty-odd photos. Check them out here. Below, four photos from the tour. Other notes: Engineering director Craig Nevill-Manning said Google chose the building because it fit […]

Only 3% of of opt-in e-mails were treated as spam by Gmail, according to a new report from Lyris, a maker of e-mail marketing software. That’s a 15-fold improvement in performance compared to when Gmail launched in 2004. The Lyris report also notes that: MSN Hotmail has improved its false-positive spam detection, but remains high […]

Google has added another piece of real estate to its burgeoning empire, only this one is the original garage where Larry and Sergey set up shop. From the AP: “The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her […]

Google released a significant redesign of Google Reader yesterday that addresses much of the criticism the app received when it first launched. The G Poppa also separated its instant messaging and voice call product, Google Talk, from Gmail. When Reader debuted last October, it had a lot of problems, chief of which was the app […]