Some speculate it's retaliation for giving Dalai Lama the Congressional Medal
CNET Oct 19, 07 4:05 AM CDT
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Chinese searchers trying to visit Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search are being redirected to the Chinese search engine Baidu, according to tech news sources. Speculation has it that the Chinese government is blocking the American engines because officials are angry that the US awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal this week.
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Massive boost in weakest quarter
Wall Street Journal Oct 19, 07 12:42 AM CDT
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Google's search for profit growth produced a 57% jump in revenue and a 46% increase in profits to $1B in the third quarter. The Wall Street Journal reports the boost in net income came from its core search-advertising business, as well as its brokering of ads that appear on partner Web sites. Shares have risen 39% so far this year.
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Economist finds holes in social net sites like Facebook, MySpace
Economist Oct 18, 07 3:15 PM CDT
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While Facebook and other online social networks are growing like digital weeds in Silicon Valley, their popularity may be more a product of hyperbole than actual developmental potential, the Economist argues. But major internet speculators Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't seem to care, as each bids billions to buy Facebook, whose 2007 revenue may be only $100 million.
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UN unveils plan for 'intellectual cathedral'
Washington Post Oct 18, 07 11:56 AM CDT
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If the World Digital Library works out as planned, it’ll make Alexandria look like a Buck-a-Book. The UN project hopes to collect primary sources from around the world in every medium, digitize them, and offer them online, free, in seven languages. “What they are doing is building an intellectual cathedral, and it may never get finished,” one tech forecaster said.
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Viacom spokesman: "The new technology obviously has no bearing on the past"
Media Daily News Oct 17, 07 5:59 PM CDT
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Google's new anti-piracy software on YouTube may do great things from now on, says Viacom, but it still plans to go ahead with a lawsuit over the its products showing up on the Google-owned site without permission. "The new technology obviously has no bearing on the past," a Viacom spokesman tells Online Media Daily, "And we don't even know if the technology works yet."
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Technique designed to dodge Viacom lawsuit
MarketWatch Oct 16, 07 6:54 AM CDT
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Google yesterday unveiled new technology to seek out copyright-protected material on its YouTube site, which the company hopes will head off Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit. The software scans videos, breaks them down into data points and analyzes them so that any matching versions can be flagged and removed "in a matter of minutes," said a YouTube exec.
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Service won't show text snippets, which Germans think violate copyright
Ars Technica Oct 14, 07 11:26 PM CDT
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German publishers irked by Google Book Search's indexing of their books without paying a fee have launched a competing version of the same service. So far, reports Ars Technica, about 300 publishers have made about 8,000 German books available to searchers on Libreka.de, with up to 50,000 more to be added. Users can view titles and cover images of books containing searched-for phrases.
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Fortune scribe lays out ways for Net giant to fight monopoly fears
CNN Oct 12, 07 4:08 PM CDT
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With more and more businesses reliant on Google for advertising and search services, there may be regulation on the horizon for the online Goliath. The solution? Healthy competition, Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick says, which it's not getting enough of. Major innovation by Microsoft and Yahoo may be precisely what it needs to avoid the monopoly label.
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New add-in lets users map videos to points on the globe
ComputerWorld Oct 12, 07 11:23 AM CDT
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A further sign that you don't need the real world so long as you have Google: the search engine company has now integrated its Google Earth map program with YouTube, the video site it bought last year. Videos location-marked on YouTube will now be available on the Google Earth's satellite view, so users can watch footage from halfway around the world just by looking at the map.
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Tory challenger visits Schwarzenegger, Google heads, maybe Bush
Daily Mail (UK) Oct 12, 07 9:08 AM CDT
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David Cameron, the UK Tory leader, is in California to meet with politicians and tech gurus and to pitch himself, rather than Gordon Brown, as the future of Britain. Only two weeks ago Cameron's career was in free fall, but after a stellar performance at the Conservative Party's conference and Brown's disastrous about-face on calling an election, Cameron is riding high in the polls and the press.
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Site will match Facebook by opening itself to third-party apps for users
TechCrunch Oct 10, 07 4:07 PM CDT
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MySpace will announce next week that it's making space for third-party developers, TechCrunch reports. Whispering began in June about the development of MySpace Platform, which will allow outside companies to create applications for the popular social-networking site. In a huge change, developers will also have a chance to include advertising with their wares—and keep the revenue.
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Google will syndicate videos through AdSense
New York Times Oct 9, 07 2:47 PM CDT
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Google’s once-inconspicuous text ads are getting a grainy video makeover in the latest attempt to monetize YouTube. A new service today will let websites embed relevant clips amongst AdSense offerings, sprucing up ads in exchange for a cut of revenue. Video auteurs will also get revenue pie, but only the 100 or so Google has deals with will be distributed.
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The likes of Nintendo, Microsoft and Google reach out at this year's AARP convention
CNET Oct 9, 07 1:51 PM CDT
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Technology companies are beginning to target the over-50 audience, as was on display at the 2007 AARP convention last month, where Microsoft, Google, and for the first time, Nintendo all pitched products to the retiree crowd. "This is the first tech-savvy retirement generation...they have been living with it for the past 15 years," an industry researcher told cNet.
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Shares reach new high ahead of third-quarter report
CNN Oct 8, 07 8:15 PM CDT
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Google's stocks have shot past $600 for the first time, kindling investor hopes as the cyber giant eyes a possible buy of ad distributor DoubleClick. CNN Money reports that stocks peaked at $610.26 in New York today and closed at $609.92, a 2.6% gain. The rise extended a monthlong surge in which shares spiked 17% in anticipation of a rosy 3rd-quarter report.
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Company should break up and market individual services
Reuters Oct 5, 07 4:14 PM CDT
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According to analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, Yahoo Inc. would be worth far more if it broke up its different services into individual businesses or at least went in for a radical overhaul. Shares that rose 2.4% yesterday to $27.80 could sell for as much as $39, according to Lindsay, if it happened. But Yahoo seems unlikely to seriously alter its game plan, Reuters reports.
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