Steve Bryant

The search engine seems to have run afoul of the Myanmar government, a military dictatorship with a history of blocking Internet access. According to posters on Planet Forums and an article from the Times of India, the Myanmar government has blocked access to several Google services. Gmail and Gtalk were banned June 22 and 23, […]

A mixed bag of Google news from Europe this week. A French court of appeals on June 28 agreed with leather goods manufacturer Louis Vuitton, ruling that Google violated trademark, unfair competition and advertising laws by showing ads for Vuitton rivals when people searched for Vuitton. Google has to pay a fine of about $250,000 […]

And if so, who’s smoking it? I kid. In the interest of annotating Microsoft’s brain drain to Google (sigh, another list), here are the major Softies who have joined the Google side of the force: Vic Gundotra – (left around June 28, 2006) Vic was a 15-year Microsoft veteran and a general manager for platform […]

It’s not that I like making lists. (Although Merlin Mann’s 5ives is one of my favorite sites ever.) It’s just that the list format does a good job of breaking down a complicated service (Google Checkout) into its component pros and cons. (By the way, if you haven’t heard, Google Checkout launched today. Check out […]

In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Google launches its online payment processing service today; in a less jubilant sector of online news, a security researcher has built malware capable of remaining 100 percent undetectable, even in Vista x64 systems; Microsoft, meanwhile, has removed the controversial “phone home” notifications component […]

Today, Google released the Account Authentication Proxy for Web-based applications, which allows an application to access a Google service protected by a user’s Google account. This is basically Google’s answer to Microsoft Passport / Windows Live ID. With the new Google service, users can allow a Web site or application limited access to their Google […]

In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Windows churns out another Vista test build, but does it mean the OS is on track for the new year? The other 800-pound gorilla, Google, is planning to roll out its online payment service soon, but will it work? European cops catch suspected […]

Why does Google want to automate the advertiser click cycle and make it as fast as it possibly can? The first reason is obvious: Google makes money on click conversions. The more clicks done quickly, the more money for Google, and the happier the advertiser. The second reason is that by automating the click cycle, […]

If the Wall Street Journal’s report is true, Google’s online payment system will be debuting this week. Technophiles, SEO wizards and just about anyone interested in Google and Internet commerce have been speculating about Google’s payment system–in turns called Google Wallet, GBuy and, lately, Google Checkout–since last fall. To attract customers to the new service, […]

School’s out for summer, but it looks like Google isn’t taking any breaks. A county school system in North Carolina filed an injunction against the search engine on Friday, saying it improperly indexed private information about schoolchildren, including test scores and Social Security numbers. The injunction was honored by the Honorable Richard D. Boner and […]