Google Recruiting for OpenOffice.org Google is on a mission to improve OpenOffice.org and show its affinity for open source projects. Google wants to trim the memory requirements of OpenOffice.org and its huge 80 MB download size in what may be a first step in the GoogleOffice project. Google is now looking to hire some engineers [...]

Google AdSense Responds to Smart Pricing Talk JenSense stirred up quite a controversy surrounding Google AdSense and AdSense Smart Pricing with the report of a Google rep spilling the beans to a publisher on how one rotten site can spoil the publsiher’s AdSense earnings. From JenSense : “While AdSense was attempting to get a publisher [...]

Apple iTunes Hits One Million Video Sales Strike up another win for Apple’s iTunes as the entertainment download store as issued a statement that over one million videos have been purchased & downloaded from iTunes over the past 19.5 days. n October 12, 2005 iTunes began offering video content for download and playing on the [...]

Country Specific Searches and Paid Search Ads A very interesting featured thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Google places “Dummy Bidders” in Regional Search artificially raise required bids discusses a topic, I believe is very important. The poster says that when he does a search in Google and specifically requests that Google only show [...]

Sprint’s Wireless Music Store for Cell Phones Sprint today joined iTunes & Cingular in the mobile music download market as they launched their wireless music store for Sprint customers to download music and play songs on their mobile phone players. Sprint Nextel Corp’s wireless music download store will be charging customer’s $2.50 for two different [...]

Yahoo Music Raising Download Prices After entering the music download market in a Rhapsody type fashion by undercutting the iTunes competition, Yahoo is now raising the price of its one year unlimited music downloading service – Yahoo Music Unlimited. Starting tomorrow, Yahoo will be jacking up the price of its service from $60 a year [...]

Google Print Resumes Tomorrow Despite lawsuits from both authors and publishers alike over questionable copyright violation tactics, Google will be googling full speed ahead start tomorrow with the Google Print project. Google Print hopes to digitize the world’s book collection and offer the index online. Google Print has run into some roadblocks with copyright law [...]

Google the Agency, Google the Network Here’s a fairly comprehensive piece from the NY Times’ Saul Hansell, reviewing Google’s model, history and speculating about its future: Google the one-stop shop for all forms of advertising (TV, print, online, etc.). Traditional ad agencies don’t generally like and don’t get Google in my limited observation. But it’s [...]