A Bloomberg report says that Google has successfully tested ads on mobile phones in Japan. Deep Nishar, Google product manager, suggests ads on cell phones might be priced higher than the web because users are closer to making a purchase.
The piece suggests, but does not say, that ads are being delivered as part of Google’s […]

Microsoft has been quietly adding to its Windows Live portfolio of services to compete with products that Google and Yahoo have already established in the marketplace. Through its Waggener Edstrom public relations firm, Microsoft today confirmed that it’s readying two new searches: Windows Live Product Search and Windows Live Academic Search. Microsoft-dedicated beta testers and […]

Chen Shui-bian, President of Taiwan, urged multinational companies to put freedom of speech before profit when dealing with China. The President singled out Yahoo and Google by name. It was at a commemorative service for a Taiwanese human rights activist. Chen said there shouldn’t be any compromise in the fight for free speech.
“I call on […]

Google’s enterprise version of the Desktop search program allows IT departments to block certain features from their users. Matt Blotzbach, senior enterprise product manager at Google, said, “We recognize this feature might go against corporate information policies about not moving any information outside of the corporate network or PCs.”
Google recently released a new beta version […]

The Googel Base homepage has suddenly had a number of new categories added, which many people have been seeing and noticing. Michael Nguyen calls it Google Base Creep and explains how to keep tabs on the next vertical: “Want to see the next Google Base vertical page? Add “&ui=g” along with “&a_n0=term” to the query. […]

There’s a rumor that Honda will follow in VW’s footsteps: integrating Google Earth for its new feature called “InterNav! Premium Club service”.
Edmunds reports that the service is supposedly only scheduled to be activated in the Japanese market with Honda’s Floating Car Data syste, that will display Google Earth’s satellite mapping technology.
The Honda navigation system will […]

Google is now offering home listings at Google.com. The news was broken by Shimon Sandler: if you enter “Homes for Sale” on Google.com, you have the option to type in a geographic area and hit a “Search Housing” button. This opens up Google Maps, showing homes on the market in your area.
Taking it one step […]

Google has partnered with Clear Channel to implement AdSense in over 1,100 radio station websites. ClearChannel announced yesterday “that Google with exclusively power search engines in all of its local radio sites and give local advertisers top billing in the search results pages.” Huh? They’re getting special treatment because they have lots of money?
Combined, the […]

Recently, some Gmail users have been having trouble with logging on, sending messages, and web browsers crashing when trying to open a message. I suggest using Firefox. Internet Explorer just plain sucks. The failures have supposedly been growing for weeks, but I don’t think so. I haven’t experienced any problems myself. But with millions and […]

Google adds RSS feed integration with the Google Personalized Homepage and improves search functionality with:

Previous queries
Spell checking
Suggestions

It also catches mailto: links and opens them in Gmail instead of a desktop email client. That’s good for me, because I use Gmail and it has been trying to open in Outlook (which I don’t use).
“As a dedicated […]