While Google is hyping Google Instant as the greatest thing since sliced bread, some see it as bad direction for the search behemoth. They argue Google should be focused on better search results, not gimmicks. Of course there are the believers who see Google Instant as a major advance in search technology saving time and [...]

Before Google Instant launched today, I was a skeptic of the concept, as it was rumored. Search results that update as you’re typing them? Thanks, but I’m not too lazy to hit “enter” at the end of a search. Once Google Instant went live, I changed my mind. In practice, Google Instant makes a strong [...]

Following its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP went from spending about $57,000 a month on Google search ads to an enormous $3.6 million outlay for the month of June alone, according to a report citing internal Google documents. Documents obtained by Ad Age list BP as Google’s sixth largest June advertiser. Early [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – A video cartoon featuring Google’s chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant. Consumer Watchdog took its gripes with Google to the center of Manhattan on Thursday, where it paid to have a [...]

Google is taking on internet telephone companies like Skype by allowing users to call from its free web-based email service. For the moment only users in the US will be able to make calls from inside their Gmail account. Phoning anywhere in the US and Canada will be free until the end of the year, [...]

NEW YORK, N.Y. – In case 10 minutes isn’t enough to show off your guitar solo skills or Lady Gaga impersonation, YouTube has raised the limit it places on video uploads to 15 minutes. The video website, owned by Google Inc., said in a blog post Thursday that the longer upload time was the single-most [...]

Seriously … at this point, who’s not on Facebook? Grandmas are commenting on their teen grandkids’ angst-ridden status updates. One of your grade-school teachers wants you to join their mafia. Candidates for the Planning and Zoning Commission have fan pages. So does actor Will Arnett’s voice. Not Will Arnett. Just his voice. On Wednesday, Facebook [...]

The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year’s time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing was also stated recently by Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist. The main reason for the concern? There’s an explosion of [...]

Apple said Tuesday that it removed a seller from its online applications store after discovering that he gamed the store’s sales ranking system to make it appear as though his e-books accounted for 42 of the site’s top 50 electronics books. Apple said the hack was carried about by a developer named Thuat Nguyen. PGP [...]

-Apple Inc.’s Steve Jobs introduced a new iPhone yesterday with a thinner design, a sharper screen and video-chat features, giving the company fresh ammunition against rival devices running Google Inc. Android software. The iPhone 4 will go on sale in the U.S. and four other countries on June 24 and retail for $199 for the [...]