Steve Bryant

Yesterday we brought you new details about Google’s office in Manhattan. It took me days to get that info. Days. Today I find that Yahoo just blithely throws open its doors for a video walking tour. (Albeit a very fast walking tour. That speed effect has got. To. Go.) Yes, Yahoo debuted its corporate blog […]

In what looks like its biggest offline advertising deal to date, Google has struck a deal with XM Satellite Holdings to automatically insert adds on the service’s nonmusic channels. According to a statement, Google will serve the ads via dMarc’s media network on XM stations. XM has about 7 million paid subscribers. The deal will […]

It’s no secret that Google is trying to take the ad world by storm. And if you want to impress Madison Avenue, what better way than to move the East Coast Googleplex into a 311,000 square-foot, multi-floor office in the swanky environs of Manhattan’s Chelsea? Google Watch recently learned some new details about the move. […]

Barry at Search Engine Roundtable notes a thread in the Search Engine Watch forums about AdCenter’s new feature plans. According to an e-mail from the AdCenter team: Now, use Microsoft AdCenter with the Firefox 1.5 browser! Daily, weekly and monthly data will be updated every hour to help you view results and optimize campaigns in […]

Google’s translation product provides a derogatory translation for the word “gay” in Arabic, according to a recent article in pinknews.co.uk. The article claims that when a user enters the word “gay” into Google Translate, “luti” is returned, which means “sodomite” in Arabic. The translation upset the administrator of the Gay Middle East Journal, who wrote […]

Google Watch has its tickets and its press pass ready to go for the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose. Are you going? Want to meet up? Drop me a line. Or, if you’re not going but you really really really want to ask a Googler, Yahooligan or Redmondian (or anybody else) a question, […]

New products from startups and entrepreneurs are advancing news aggregation beyond what Google News offers. When Google News was launched four years ago, it did the one thing that newspapers refused to do, and that was link to other publications. The product was a hit — and continues to be popular — with the Web […]

In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Microsoft is looking past Visual Studio 2007 to something called “Rosario”; Steve Bryant gets the inside scoop on Googles hiring process for the AdWords sales team; and Hewlett-Packard wants their next data center to resemble…a snowflake?

Google’s director of online sales and operations gives Google Watch some insight into the search and advertising company’s hiring practices. Think you’ve got what it takes to work on Google’s AdWords sales team? Well, be prepared to do some homework, because you won’t get your foot in the Googleplex door without first completing the AdWords […]

As expected, Google announced a new service for open-source developers July 27. The service, called Project Hosting, allows developers to upload their own open-source projects and search for others. Greg Stein, an engineering manager at Google and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, disclosed the service at OSCON (the O’Reilly Open Source Community Convention). Stein […]