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You can't find Hogwarts ... yet. Or Middle Earth, for that matter. But Google Maps is geographic coordinates with directory information to forge new, improved views of the Earth and, […]

Since technology seems to advance in dog years, and the closer someone is in age to a technology the better they tend to understand it, keeping up with technology is [...]

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY at the University of Oxford in England is the only place you are likely to find an Ethernet port that looks like a book. Built into the […]

'In 5 years, e-book sales will match those of traditional print; in 10 years, e-books will outsell print.' Well, it was June 2000 when I made that bold statement in […]

Byline: Sarah Reedy Mobile advertising provider JumpTap today announced it will take on Google's AdWords with tapMatch, its version of a pay-per-click (PPC) mobile ad marketplace that delivers targeted ads [...]

The search-engine behemoth's behaviour is based on sound business practice, not sinister motives. The other day, I was on a conference panel; the moderator opened proceedings by asking each of [...]

Google has launched a new ad format across its network to strengthen its grip on the multi-billion-pound display market, in the week Yahoo increased its focus on rich media. Google […]

Google hopes to recoup some of the dollars 1.6bn it paid for YouTube by overhauling its homepage ads offering. The search engine giant hopes advertisers will pay pounds 32,000 a [...]

Byline: Rich Karpinski Google is reportedly working with service providers to cache some of its content for more rapid delivery, but the company - along with noted net neutrality advocate [...]

Byline: Daniel Chu Advertisers across media are seeking unprecedented levels of campaign measurement and ad tracking. In this day of digital media, where Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! battle for online [...]

Byline: ABBEY KLAASSEN If ad serving is becoming commoditized, then why is the space suddenly filled with new players? First there were the three acquisitions: Google buys DoubleClick; Microsoft buys [...]

Byline: ABBEY KLAASSEN How much does Angelina Jolie cost? It depends on your history with her. And that's why for some movie marketers, who traditionally have promoted film releases by [...]

Byline: ABBEY KLAASSEN If you're fretting that Google's TV Ads system will somehow commoditize the $64.4 billion the TV industry takes in ad revenue, don't. Google has a more radical [...]

The booming mobile search advertising will grow 112 percent within five years, making it imperative for market leader Google to take steps to defend itself against a search-hungry Microsoft, according […]

Mixed opinions among the online ad market about YouTube's animated overlay ads put the adoption of the format as an industry-wide model for video ads in doubt Last week Google […]

Google has finally revealed its monetisation model for YouTube, shunning pre-roll and streaming video ads in favour of an animated overlay ad format. The InVideo launch, which comes after lengthy […]

Google is to slash the lifetime of its 'cookies' to improve its privacy practices. Cookies - data files stored on users' PCs after they visit a website - were previously [...]

I have to confess a certain fondness for Google, an admiration that has grown out of frequent innovation and creativity. And its frequent luck in the form of success. Then […]

Google has reportedly drawn-up plans to compile psychological profiles of millions of web users by monitoring the way they play online games. But it's very ambitious to expect to be […]

Now that books are being digitised, how will people read? IN SECRET locations and using secret methods, human beings are scanning lots and lots of books for Google, the world's [...]

Like many of you, probably, I tire-kicked Google Spreadsheets when it first arrived on the scene, then forgot all about it. A nice bit of AJAX hackery, I thought, but […]

Byline: Elton RobinsonFarm Press Editorial Staff Agricultural journalists have long anguished over our failure to defend agriculture to people not in agriculture. We're preaching to the choir, we are told [...]

Byline: Brad Stone If you were in Los Angeles recently and noticed a twin-engine Cessna Turbo 310 crisscrossing the sky in meticulously parallel lines, several times a day for more [...]

Internet Fraud Boys will scam, be scammed If Internet fraud were a battle of the sexes, men have the upper hand as both perpetrators and hapless victims. That's just one […]

The internet has now become not only a key search resource but the actual place where most of the research programmes we use everyday now sit, says Spencer Stratford. For [...]

Only a year ago, the mobile search box was a simple curio whenever it popped up in Google or Yahoo! 'early beta' experiments. No one seemed to take seriously the […]

Byline: Daren Briscoe If you want to get a fix on the future of the Internet, have a look at Google's map site. At first glance it may not seem [...]

Search giant Google Inc.'s price comparison service now points users to shops or merchants that have a sought-after product in stock, but don't necessarily have a way to order it […]

A decision by Google Inc. to block certain search queries has helped thwart the spread of the Santy worm, but the public release of the worm's source code could lead […]

The folks at Google are getting a lot of attention lately with their in-your-face recruiting of the world's most competitive geeks. The company's billboards ask mathematical questions whose answers are […]

IM attracting unwanted interest Just when more corporate network executives are opening their eyes to the potential business benefits of instant messaging, so too are the scam artists and pornography […]

Although ebooks were once thought to be a dying technology, they have made quite a comeback recently. One major driving force in the ebook domain has been the well-known Google […]

Children, especially girls, are finding supporters across the globe--some their own age--who are engaging with virtual education programs, an online game, and books that promote social justice and a better [...]

One of the constants in the enterprise is a proliferation of systems and data, which is directly responsible for increase in storage needs. This last fall, in fact, IDC predicted […]

AN ANALYST WITH ties to the telecom industry claims that Google uses more bandwidth than it pays for. 'It is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity, pays […]

The Google -EarthLink partnership to blanket San Francisco with Wi-Fi should be viewed as the first of many Google forays into broadband delivery. Given its growing infrastructure and objectives, it's [...]

NEW YORK When AKQA built a brand Web site for a Visa Signature campaign that launched this month, its media plan included a first for the account: a search component. [...]

Google Maps has added a new Hybrid view to the older Map and Satellite options, which overlays the street map view on the satellite imagery. Each map has all three [...]

You know an Internet trend has peaked when it's written up in the New York Times. The Times published a column in late June titled 'Is Google God?', in which […]