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Corporate Blogging To Catch Fire?
According to the findings of JupiterResearch, corporate blogging is about to become big - really big. It seems these expectations may be impossibly optimistic, as a matter of fact. But JupiterResearch believes that "nearly 70 percent of all site operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the end of 2006."
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-30

Google Flips The Checkout Switch
The Google Checkout process officially launched, offering its users a unified shopping process that emphasizes safety and user control of the online retail experience.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-29

Microsoft Exec Sees The Google Light
Another Microsoft executive has succumbed to the allure of Google and will join the search advertising company after spending his non-compete year in philanthropic pursuits.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-29

MapQuest Offers Road Trip Tool
MapQuest is hoping to make your summer plans a little simpler with its new feature, dubbed Route Builder. According to the company, "this new tool lets travelers save time and money by mapping out their entire journey - and multiple destination stops in between - in one convenient step."
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-28

Google Gives a Few Webmaster Pointers
Google published an array of tips and tools to help webmasters better analyze their web offerings. In addition to a Sitemaps update that creates a more robust view of 404 errors, Google Analytics reminds the ROI-minded of how to compare AdWords clicks to organic and direct links.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-23

PayPal To Google: Bring It On
PayPal President Jeff Jordan said his company is ready and waiting for any competing payment services that Google may launch. The GBuy system is supposed to come out on June 28, according to a note from RBC analyst Jordan Rohan.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-16

Google Poised For Nielsen Raidings
Google is a media company - a dangerous one for conventional players. Mountain View's next potential rival: Nielsen Media Research, the audience measurement company that has held a virtual monopoly in the sector for decades. And it shouldn't be surpirsing. Google's MO is information collection and research.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-16

Google Talking Voice Recognition?
Senior Google executives are dropping big hints that the company's future growth will come not just from PCs but from voice recognition services over mobile cellular phones and cars.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-15

Picasa Web Albums: First Impressions
Picasa Web Albums is supposed to be invite-only. However, if you enter your Google Account email address in the box on the picasaweb.google.com homepage, you may get in immediately. I did.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-14

Google Blows Up Earth
The Google Earth and Maps teams must have been on the verge of bursting into data stream rivers until they finally popped this morning, unloading a mess of new functionality onto the world. We had to mask our digital footprint with wading boots to fish out the most relevant to our readers: Google Maps for Enterprise.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-13

Google Extends Firefox Some Love
The Google Toolbar for Firefox will soon emerge from its beta status; also, the company introduced a synchronization feature to make one's browser settings available on multiple computers.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-08

Sergey Brin Goes To Washington
The challenge of finding Senators willing to hear Google's point of view on network neutrality will look like a walk in the park compared to the prospect of changing course with its business in China.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-07

Google.com Vanishes From China
Reporters Without Borders has observed the Google.com address can no longer be accessed from China. Chinese Googlites can visit the local version of the search engine at Google.cn, but the main, and uncensored, home of Google has vanished.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-07

Google Spreadsheet No Excel Killer
News stories and blog posts have begun to fill with the carillon of funeral bells for Microsoft as Google readies its minimalist spreadsheet program for public debut.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-06

Ask Seen As Google Threat
Microsoft may not get around to unseating Google from the search engine perch, as Ask.com may complete its turnaround and start seeing its market share rise thanks to a host of features available from IAC's Search and Media division.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-05

Justice: Save Web Data For Two Years
Companies like Google, Comcast, Verizon, and Microsoft have recently met with the Department of Justice and the FBI on the suggestions that those Internet companies retain user web activities for as long as two years to help fight terrorism and child pornography.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-02

Google Chats Up Investors
During a conference call with investors, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other executives answered questions about their partnerships, rivalries, and products in the industry.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-06-01