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Microsoft has now officially announced a new search and advertising deal with Facebook. Senior VP Satya Nadella revealed the development at the company’s annual financial meeting Thursday.
Under the arrangement, […]

Google launched its long hyped Wikipedia competitor Knol earlier today, but despite being open for editing by all, not all users are being treated equally.
Unlike Wikipedia, Knol works around user identities, both with user profile pages, and through the URL structure. For example, here is my profile page, and here’s my page on blogs, both […]

Blogspot.com is the worst when it comes to malicious content, according to a new report released by antivirus company Sophos.
Sophos says Google’s free blog hosting service has more malware than any other single site on the Web, with 2 percent of all the world’s dangerous code — both in hacker-created blogs and in innocent blogs […]

With news that Google is alleged once again to be close to acquiring Digg, some may suggest that the future of the popular social voting destination is assured. But looking at Google’s list of acquisitions, it is anything but. Here’s four ways Google could destroy Digg as we currently know it.
Stagnation
While Digg is a popular […]

Google is adding a Russian contextual advertising company into its AdSense program.
Google bought ZAO Begun for $140 million, the company announced early this morning. Begun, as it’s called, appears to be the Russian equivalent of AdSense, with about 40,000 advertisers and another 140,000 in a partner site. Along with the deal, Begun’s parent […]

Google is defrauding its advertising customers by charging for clicks from parked websites that Google know are worthless, a federal class action lawsuit filed by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose.
“The supposed advantage of Google advertising is that it’s targeted,” said Brian Kabateck, Managing Partner of […]

Ready to feel bad about your income? Google has just released its second quarter financial results.
The company pulled in $5.37 billion — a number 39 percent higher than its second quarter in 2007. The vast majority — 66 percent — came from Google-owned sites. Another 31 percent came from AdSense-related income. […]

Google has introduced a new cell phone-based business review system.
When you search for a business name from your mobile browser and navigate to the “results” page, you’ll now be given an option to sign in and write a review. You can then give the business a star-rating and an actual written assessment for other […]

Google has announced a new range templates for Google Docs. As the video above shows, one template can be used to manage wedding invitation lists. Yes, Google Docs can be used to manage wedding invitation lists. Hmmm….Google Docs can be used to manage wedding invitation lists. Sorry for repeating myself, but I’m overawed by the […]

Google has published the second part of a blog series explaining the methods behind its search systems.
Last week, we saw some broad Q&A about the processes and the philosophies of Google search — including discussions on things such as whether search results are ever manually edited — but no major revelations about algorithms or other […]

Google has launched the Google Elections Video Search gadget, a new iGoogle/ embeddable widget that combines political videos with Google speech-to-text technology, allowing users to search video by word spoken.
The embedded version above (sized to fit). Type in any word then hit search. In return you are offered any videos that include those words or […]

Google has launched a new program to make its Webmaster Tools available to any ISP, at no charge.
The Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program lets hosting companies gain access to the utilities just by signing up. Once connected, the hosts can integrate the Webmaster Tools into their own user interfaces. The program had been […]

Want to start a betting pool on Google’s next venture? Some Internet data might just give you the upper hand.
Hitwise actually predicted this week’s launch of Lively, the virtual chat world introduced Tuesday, and also predicted the Google Health service launched before it in May. It’s no magic trick, though: Analysts there started […]