Steve Bryant

Google’s new Manhattan office sites atop one of the biggest fiberoptic facilities in North America. I’ve been doing research for a separate project on Google’s new offices in Manhattan, which I first reported about here. I can’t reveal everything just yet, but I do have more details to report. Turns out 111 8th Avenue is […]

The G Poppa is moving. First came word that Google’s Manhattan offices were relocating to Chelsea. And today the Mercury News reports that Google may build a new campus a few blocks from its current Mountain View headquarters. The Mountain View City Council is expected to approve a deal tonight that would let them negotiate […]

Google likes its logo graphics. The signature logo changes, drawn by Google Webmaster Dennis Hwang, appear on Google’s home page for a variety of events, including (but not limited to) celebratory occasions like July Fourth, esoteric holidays such as Persian New Year, and the World Cup. The logos are such an ingrained part of Web […]

The inimitable Phil Lenssen points us to Google’s whitelist and blacklist of phishing sites, which ostensibly help Google Toolbar identify sites that try to steal your info. Some of the URLs on the blacklist are pretty devious: bankofscotland.co.uk.systemupgrade.uujjkk7.st/customers.ibc/ chase.com.update-profile9025.com/ ebay.de.bwtm.us/ The whitelist and blacklist are part of Google’s safe browsing for Firefox, an extension that […]

Some observers think Google is a stoic participant in the online community, but anyone who knows a Googler understands that’s just not the case. Google managers and employees are very interested in what the world thinks of their company. “We love to read about Google,” Matt Cutts told me at SES San Jose. “When somebody […]

Digg founder Kevin Rose said today that the site will be making changes to its ranking algorithms. The problem is that a small number of Digg users have too much influence over what makes it to the home page. The general perception is that sites like Digg work via the wisdom of crowds, a term […]

Google doesn’t like porn. Not only that, but Google doesn’t like salacious references couched in irony, copy concerning scantily clad people or anything with the whiff of fleshy impropriety. If Google were an individual, he might be described as something of a teetotaller. So it’s no surprise that prominent blogger and AdSense publisher Coolzor received […]

A Google spokesperson confirmed today that the company is testing mobile AdWords in the US, UK and Germany. As reported earlier, the system is similar to the test in Japan, which began in April. “We are currently conducting a pilot to test mobile ads in the US, UK and Germany,” said a Google spokesperson. “This […]

I’m not sure if this is news or if I missed it when it happened, but a recent article on RCR Wireless News says Google is testing a wireless version of AdWords in the United States. The service allows customers to place message with links alongside mobile search results. I haven’t been able to confirm […]

The Web has long been great for getting the latest news, but finding older news has always been a crapshoot. Today Google addressed this problem, in part, by releasing Google News Archive Search. Google has partnered with several news organizations, including The New York Times and the Washington Post, and aggregators including LexisNexis, to index […]