Steve Bryant

In a fit of visual irony, Google is testing out new video ads on, among others, a cartoon about a blind man’s follies. Google announced yesterday that they are testing ads on videos on the Google Video service, matching capabilities that other video services have had for a while. Up to now, Goole Video uploaders […]

Digg, the Web community that lets users vote on news items, today unveiled a site-wide redesign and expanded its coverage area beyond technology. The changes will go live June 26. With this third major redesign, Digg users will now be able to prioritize content in the subject areas of World and Business, Video, Entertainment, Science […]

Turns out the Google site: operator was broken. Googler Adam Lasnik writes in the comments on John Battelle’s Searchblog about Google’s indexing problem: “I work with Matt Cutts and other engineers in the Search Quality Team at Google. And yes, we noticed that lots of subdomains got indexed last week — and sometimes listed in […]

In todays eWEEK Daily News Podcast: In todays eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Google tests out a new affiliate marketing program and partners with Adobe on Google Toolbar downloads; Oracle acquires portal software amid much grousing from shareholders; allegations of predatory pricing are swirling around Microsofts new security offerings; and a new study says most tech […]

And the hits just keep on coming, don’t they Microsoft. In its latest move to outflank the Redmond software giant, Google will bundle Google Toolbar with downloads of Adobe’s Shockwave. A new version of Shockwave, 10.1.3.018, was posted June 21, according to Adobe’s download page. The Shockwave FAQ page lists questions about the Google Toolbar […]

Google to advertisers: Try our new cost-per-action advertising program. Google is currently testing a new advertising program that pays site owners based on demonstrable post-click actions. The program, called Cost-Per-Action, was revealed via an invitation e-mail from the Google AdSense team to Web site owners. “The Google AdSense team would like to invite you to […]

[UPDATED: to include quotes from Yahoo and MSN.] Google Search is good. Maybe too good? Reports from the Monetize blog last weekend demonstrated that a spammer–since revealed to be a Moldavian malcontent–managed to get 5.5 billion spurious pages indexed by Google. Google has removed the pages from its index and is reportedly working on a […]

Google is currently testing a new advertising program that pays site owners based on demonstrable post-click actions. The program, called Cost-Per-Action, was revealed via an invitation e-mail from the Google AdSense team to Web site owners. “The Google AdSense team would like to invite you to test a feature that provides you with a new […]

Following a spate of trojan and worm attacks on Orkut and Page Creator that jeopardized users’ financial information, Google has joined a group of U.S. companies in calling for consumer privacy legislation. The initiative, originating from the signatories (full list here) and applauded by the Center for Democracy and Technology, calls for a “serious process […]

All’s quiet on the Google Talk front, leaving Microsoft and Yahoo to bring in the big guns. Yesterday, Microsoft released its first Windows Live product to go live beyond the beta stage. Windows Live Messenger, aka WLM, which has been in public beta since May 8, is now available as a full release candidate. (As […]