Steve Bryant

Maps wasn’t the only piece of Google software to get an update recently. The G Poppa has also added hiking trails to Google Earth. The new layer, sponsored by Trimble Outdoors Trips, features GPS-marked trails for hiking, biking, backpacking and running, including directions to trailheads, difficulty rankings, and sites of note. Some legs also include […]

Just noticed a little note on the Google Enterprise blog urging enterprise developers to attend Google Developer Day on May 31. Why? “Well we continue to see a trend where enterprises are embracing new technologies and systems that have roots in consumer-based applications. We’d certainly like to think that our enterprise products, which are rooted […]

Google’s acquisition chief says the best acquisitions are crazy acquisitions. “The crazy ones mean they ignore the usual restraints of investment levels required or design parameters or ‘Gee I need more servers than anyone ever thought was possible’,” Salman Ullah, Google’s director of corporate development, told Bloomberg.com. “When you free yourselves from these constraints, you […]

CBS announced today that it has made several online video distribution deals to AOL, MSN and Joost, among others. CBS is also in talks to have a new NBC Universal-News Corp. venture distribute its shows on a nonexclusive basis. Google had to be expecting this. According to director of television advertising Michael Steib, the G […]

This recent post from Jeff Jarvis–about whether Obama or Clinton is mentioned more often in the media–got me wondering what Google Trends has to say about the matter. As Jarvis notes, the latest Gallup poll shows Hillary ahead, while Google News shows more articles about Obama. Blogpulse shows the candidates neck and neck. (None of […]

Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels wishes NBC would let him put more clips up on YouTube. “I think that YouTube is great, because if you do something like ‘Dick in a Box,’ someone in Pakistan can see it,” said Mr. Michaels in an interview with Felix Gillette at the New York Observer. “YouTube has […]

Yahoo scored a win today by corralling 33 Viacom broadband sites — including MTV.com, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central — into its new Panama search advertising system. Viacom, of course, is currently suing Yahoo competitor Google for $1 billion in a copyright infringement lawsuit, a fact to which Viacom alluded in its press release: “Viacom is […]

So my Mac Mini died on Sunday. Hit the power and got the gray screen of death. The Applecare plan had run out six months previously. The folks at Tekserve said a new hard drive for the $600 Mac Mini would cost me … $600. Arg. Anyway, I didn’t lose my documents. Everything important, from […]

I stopped by the New York Search Engine Strategies conference this morning to chat with a few folks. Along the way I copied down some tips and tricks I heard. Some of this will be old hat to you folks, but it’s always good to reprise the important stuff. Viral videos do not transfer value […]

Google has apologized to competitor Sohu.com after its Chinese rival complained its data was used by the U.S. search leader in a new tool for entering Chinese characters. Sohu, which controls about 6.5 percent of the Chinese search market, complained Sunday that Google’s tool for inputting Chinese characters appeared to copy material from Sohu’s Sogou […]