Until now, Google Street View never allowed anyone to see outside America.  Thankfully, this year’s Tour de France seems to have provided enough of a reason for other images to be released.
Photos detailing certain parts of France - parts along the bicycle race’s route, to be exact - have become available.  They allow for plenty [...]

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Google recently introduced Google Trends for Websites, which has sparked some controversy around the web.
The tool allows users to view stats for any site they choose,  this could mean trouble for companies like Alexa, Compete, and their competitors.
That’s not entirely where the controversy comes in however. Google seems to have no problem showing everyone else’s [...]

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Though some US legislators expressed concerns about Google’s growing power in online advertising, one big ad firm welcomed Yahoo’s search ad agreement with Google.
In the US, Microsoft and Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) publicly fretted about the increasing control Google possesses over contextual search advertising. High-ranking Microsoft executive Kevin Johnson complained in France about Google taking [...]

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According to Google Webmaster Central Blog, after numerous requests from Webmasters to integrate Webmaster Tools for third-parties, Google has finally released Webmaster Tools API, a tool that integrates API (Application Programming Interface) into Webmaster Tools.
The debut version of the Google Webmaster Tools API supports the following features:
Managing Websites:

Retrieve a list of your sites in Webmaster [...]

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Kevin Johnson, president of the Platforms and Services Division at Microsoft, whined a bit about the pact between Google and Yahoo, during a debate in Cannes about advertising topics.
Yahoo EVP Hilary Schneider gave Johnson a little something to chew on in exulting over the company’s advertising agreement with Google. Valued roughly at $800 million in [...]

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It used to be we talked about music singles debuting at the top of charts. These days we talk about companies. Imagine Casey Kasem talking for this next line, then: In its first year to be included in the Reputation Institute’s Global Pulse report on the most reputable companies, Google debuts at number one in [...]

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The search engine thinks the apocryphal talk about webmasters being able to wreck their competitors by creating bad links to them is just a bunch of talk.
One webmaster who believes he has suffered at the hands of such “Googlebowling” tactics isn’t convinced that Google looks closely enough at potential abuse coming from specially crafted inbound [...]

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When Google doodles appear on major holidays, it sometimes takes a moment of thought to connect the picture and the occasion.  When Google doodles honor more random people and events, it appears that a lot of searches take place.
Hitwise’s Robin Goad writes, “When looking at our Fast Moving Search Terms list a few weeks ago, [...]

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Net neutrality is a hotly contested issue, and has come under renewed fire as several ISPs have been caught throttling Internet speeds and others have publicly stated they plan to test metered broadband services. Users, caught in the middle, will soon have a new tool to use against their ISPs: a detector that will tell [...]

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Google’s dominance in desktop search is transferring nicely to cell phones, according to new statistics from Nielsen Mobile.  In fact, an almost complete sameness has been achieved.
The mobile market looked wide open for a while; Google, Yahoo, and even AOL appeared to have more or less equal changes of success.  Unfortunately for those last two [...]

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