Steve Bryant

Social networking and amateur porn powerhouse MySpace has inked a deal with the world’s most powerful voyeur, Google. Google will pay about $900 million over three years and nine months for the privilege of serving search results and advertising to MySpace’s 100 million pedophiles runaways half-naked teenagers. The G Poppa will also power search and […]

SES Conference, San Jose — A Googler said that the company would be making several incremental improvements in Google’s social search platform in the coming weeks. Shashi Seth, product lead search, said that Google Co-Op would offer tools that allow you to see how your Co-Op contributions are performing, and who the top contributors are. […]

SAN JOSE, CA — Yahoo announced today a new product to help Web users create specialized search engines. Yahoo! Search Builder allows users to select a set of trusted sites to search across, and then add the search engine to their sites. As far as I know, Google doesn’t offer a similar product, although they […]

Maybe because they know they can’t compete with iTunes, or maybe because their online video store is kinda lame, or maybe just because engineers hate dancing, Google is staying out of the online music sales game. Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking from the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) conference last week said the company […]

In a move that could have repercussions for Google’s offline advertising plans, several major advertisers have banded together to revolutionize the way ads for television are bought and sold. Central to their plans is an online auction marketplace called e-Media Exchange, powered by eBay. Not mentioned anywhere in the plans is new kid on the […]

They may be hemorrhaging jobs and business plans, but that didn’t stop the folks at AOL from releasing their new online storage product, Xdrive, on Wednesday. And by releasing, I mean giving away for free. And by free, I mean that’s all AOL seems to know how to do these days. Because once you start […]

Google, maker of fine search products, and RealNetworks, maker of a loathsome yet inexplicably popular media player, have extended their deal to promote Google software across Real’s entertainment and multimedia products. Mozilla is horning in on the action too. Together, all three of the companies have agreed to distribute Firefox (rocks) and the Google Toolbar […]

Update: Includes response from Google. Google confirmed yesterday that the company is paying the Associated Press (AP) for its content and that content will be used as the foundation for a new product that will complement Google News. According to the AP, the deal, which has been in place for months, helps Google avoid further […]

Trick clicks are about to get standardized. Two media industry associations announced yesterday that they are forming an industrywide group to standardize how click fraud is measured and reported. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and the nonprofit Media Rating Council are forming the Click Measurement Working Group to create a set of Click Measurement Guidelines. The […]

One of the joys of perching, hawk-like, on the spires of Google Watch is the conversations I get to have with my readers. I’m no ivory tower recluse, busily scribbling and tossing my opinionated blessings down like manna to the masses. No no. We have deep conversations, you and I, holding palaver on the topics […]