Steve Bryant

Google may be coming to a dashboard near you. In a report released yesterday, ABI Research analysts say Google and Microsoft may be about to do battle over the in-car navigation market. Transportation analyst Dan Benjamin says Google has been making a big push into location-aware advertising, so why not overlay location-aware adverts on top […]

Update: According to Moore, Google didn’t contact him directly and ask him to censor the logo, and he considers the “censored” label to be amusing. Also, the malware search doesn’t use the Google API (see Ryan’s story for an explanation of how it works). Update #2: Looks like Google is removing those malware files from […]

Heads up, true believers: Google’s Q2 earnings call takes place this Thursday at 1:30 p.m. PST. Will Google fail, meet or beat Wall Street’s expectations, and why? This is the first quarter in which Google’s stock price has not hit a new high. Google’s high point was January 11, when stock was trading at $471.63. […]

Microsoft has been busy trying out new anti-spam technologies lately. The Softies recently unveiled Strider Search Defender, an experimental project that automates the discovery of search spammers through non-content analysis. Strider uses URL-redirection analysis to find spam links in places like blog comments, forums and newsgroups. The goal is to find spam before it’s indexed […]

Microsoft and Yahoo announced today that they’re beginning to test interoperability between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. Together, the two instant messaging clients have about 350 million users. Users will now be able to use one client to chat between the two services. Of course, that’s been possible for a while with clients like […]

Some advertisers who buy AdWords with Google are reporting significant increases in their cost of business. Advertisers in several online forums have been reporting increases in the cost to buy AdWords over the last few days. One user reported his cost-per-click price rose 400 percent, while another reported an overnight increase of 2,000 percent. “I’ve […]

A Google researcher says the key to understanding Google’s strategy is to look beyond the consumer applications of its patented technology. The USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) published twelve Google patents last week, revealing more details about the company’s eforts to employ geocoding technology in its search applications. The patents (summarized by SearchEngineWatch here) […]

Hackers have stepped up their attack on Google’s sites, this time targeting Gmail. Websense Security Labs reported Monday that phishing attacks against Google have increased in sophistication. In the latest attacks, users are shown a spoofed copy of the Gmail log-in page with a message claiming, “You WON $500.00!” The page tells the reader that […]

Update: The new Google office will be primarily for the company’s advertising efforts. The New York Times reports today that Google will open a research center office in Ann Arbor, Mich. The center will have 1,000 employees, and Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm is expected to make the announcement this morning at the Michigan Capitol in […]

Update: The folks at LiveSide provide some more details on Microsoft’s Live Drive and on something called Project M, which will apparently provide a single GUI to access any of your data from the Web to your desktop and other devices. The GDrive rumor mill got a big turn today when a blogger stumbled upon […]