eWeek Google Watch Latest search engine news blog articles from eWeek Google Watch. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/eWeek+Google+Watch.html eWeek Google Watch News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13215 After much speculation about why Apple did not post the new version of the Google Mobile App for iPhone that lets users search via voice and location on its Web site , the app has finally passed muster late Monday. Google said you may now download it for free here from the Google Mobile site , or you can download the app from the iPhone App Store by searching for " Google Mobile App . Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:41:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13214 It's hard to stand by a waffling, ineffective leader. Jerry Yang has stepped down from his position as Yahoo's CEO and the company's board is looking for a replacement the company said late Monday. Yang will return to his former role as Chief Yahoo once Yahoo finds a successor to help the company turn around its fortunes in what will be an unenviable task to some, but a welcome challenge to others. AllThingsDigital's Kara Swisher has more here, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:52:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13195 Yes, you, too, are a Google guinea pig. We all are. The millions of searches we do help Google determine how we search. But did you know Google actually does field tests to determine how we search and what kind of search results work best? Google makes it easier for us to find the information we want when we don't know what information we want? Bear with me and Follow Dan Russell, a member of the Search Quality team doing user experience research for Google, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:36:16 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13184 Cemaphore , which synchronizes e-mail, calendars and contacts between Google Apps and Microsoft, today said it is enabling Exchange support on Android. Cemaphore MailShadow for Google Apps, or MailShadowG , will now let users publish Exchange content - e-mail, contacts and calendar information - onto Google's Android mobile operating system . So, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:39:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13123 When I met with Google's mobile platform and open source evangelist Vic Gundotra 11 months ago, he mused about how great it would be to speak into his iPhone and get Google search results. Google programmers have made that possible, adding voice recognition technology to the company's search algorithm to make the iPhone even more appealing, according to the New York Times' John Markoff who wrote (subscriber wall) : Users. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:28:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13105 When you ask programmers who left Microsoft for Google, they will often say Google gets the Internet while Microsoft doesn't have native Web speakers . Google will have you think that it symbolizes cloud par excellence, while Microsoft is plodding. To challenge the prevailing sentiment, Microsoft recently announced its Azure cloud-based Windows strategy at PDC , but it won't appear until next year. One wonders what this will mean for foes like Google and Salesforce.com. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:45:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13041 If you're going to port an application to mobile enterprise workers, what better starting point then with RIM's Blackberry platform? Google this week said it has issued new installation packages for Google Maps for mobile in enterprises , which will let IT administrators push the popular Google mobile mapping software to employees through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Employees in an unfamiliar place will be able to access which features Street View and walking directions, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:32:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13023 Many people, including yours truly right now, are writing about the new feature in Google Reader , which now automatically translates RSS feeds in multiple languages. So if I find something written in Japanese, I can do the following ( see pic here ), according to Google Reader Chrix Finne manager: Next time you find an interesting feed in another language, just subscribe to it as normal in Reader. When you view the feed in Reader, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:23:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12988 Funny how things evolve in high-tech, with some deals lasting what seems like ages and others, announced with so much enthusiasm, dying out. I want to talk about an example of the latter. Slightly more than three years ago, in October 2005, Google and Sun Microsystems embarked on an interesting partnership. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:05:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12918 SAN FRANCISCO - Every now then a batch of stories cooks up that Google Apps, primarily its Docs suite of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications is intended primarily to distract Microsoft from competing with Google on the Internet. The theory goes that by creating a SAAS alternative to Microsoft Office, a core Microsoft business, Google will expand its lead in search and/or other areas online. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:45:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12901 SAN FRANCISCO - Intel CEO Paul Otellini is an iPhone user, but if his observations about mobile phone use at the Web 2.0 Summit here today come to fruition, the future looks really bright for Google's Android mobile operating system . Disclaimer: Otellini sits on Google's board. No word yet on how much Google paid him for the following assements, which pose an incredibly rosy picture for the search engine giant. (Ha-ha, funny). Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:15:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12849 SAN FRANCISCO - John Battelle won't have any shortage of things to discuss with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang at the Web 2.0 Summit here today. Google issued a brief blog post today announcing that it is ending it proposed search ad deal with Yahoo, which included Yahoo running Google's keyword search terms alongside its results. Apparently, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:41:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12820 Christmas has come early (again) for Google. Months after the company successfully lobbied for open access to enable applications and services to run on more mobile phones, and drove up Verizon's cost for C-block 700 MHz wireless spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has unanimously agreed to open up "white spaces spectrum." White spaces are unused airwaves between broadcast TV channels. By "opening them up, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:16:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12791 By now, surely many of use have seem the Wall Street Journal report, or parallel coverage, that Google and Yahoo are hedging their bets on their proposed search deal to make it more palatable (and less lawsuit-friendly) for the U.S. Justice Department. This deal, in which Google would run search ads along Yahoo results to provide revenues for both companies, was suppose to be in effect since October. In the last few weeks, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:00:57 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12771 In the interest of letting its enterprise users divine more information from their user bases, Google's Enterprise team today said it has ported its Google Analytics application to help Google Apps administrators see how users are using Google Docs and Google Sites. The move comes a couple weeks of the search engine ratcheted up enterprise capabilities in Google Analytics , Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:06:53 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12736 I feel bad now for getting people all pumped for naught. I published a post Thursday night on Google's new SMS feature in Gmail chat, which allows users to send SMS messages from their desktop or laptop computers to contacts' cell phones. Now, the company shelved it for the time being to work out some enabling quirks. :( Google posted this blog on Halloween explaining the issue . Apparently, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:11:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12717 Google has repeatedly assured us that the recession hasn't burst its search advertising bubble, and the company's third-quarter earnings seem to bear this out . That doesn't mean Google isn't taking steps to make sure it maintains its ad sales. The company last night announced two changes to enhance how its algorithm calculates ad quality score and ranks ads. Google will soon update the portion of the quality score algorithm , Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:51:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12687 Google late yesterday revealed that it has successfully implemented Optical Character Recognition technology to scan and convert a picture in a document created by Adobe's PDF format into words. This renders these files searchable via the Web. Google Product Manager Evin Levey noted in a blog post that prior to this development, scanned documents were rarely included in search results because Google couldn't be sure of their content. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:07:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12679 Because we can't get enough new Gmail features : Google today rolled out a new Gmail Labs feature that lets you send text messages from your Gmail chat window. I got a hands on demo of this simple, but useful feature from Gmail Product Manager Keith Coleman a half hour ago, when he had me send a text message to his iPhone from my Gmail account. I simply entered his 10-digit area code and phone number in the chat window and it offered me the option to send an SMS. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:05:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12643 Several bloggers breathlessly yesterday rushed to note that Google is supporting OpenID without reading the fine print in the OpenID developer documentation. It turns out that Google isn't technically using OpenID, but has actually created its own flavor of the standard, according to The NeoSmart Files blog . The blog is published by Mahmoud H. Al-Qudsi for NeoSmart Technologies, anon-profit organization specializing in tech research and development. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:10:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12620 Google's Book Search agreement, in which Google agreed to pay $125 million to settle claims from authors and publishers for its earlier digital-scanning and establish a Book Rights Registry to make sure the right parties get compensated, is a great play for all involved. I tried to find some negatives and failed, so obviously I couldn't disagree more with those who say Google caved and portray it as a loss for publishing. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:03:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12557 It's getting hard to keep up with Google's Gmail engineers these days. Every week, the team seems to pump out two announcements worthy of blog posts. The latest, from Gmail Labs, lets users add Google Calendar and Docs gadgets, or small applications also known as widgets to the left-navigation bar, next to Chat and Labels. Users can now view their Google Calendar agenda and get alerts, and see recently accessed Google Docs that let you search your documents from within Gmail. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:22:43 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12537 Google today hurdled a significant stumbling block with regard to its multi-billion-dollar Book Search project, agreeing to pay $125 million to put millions of books online. The search engine settled a class-action lawsuit with book authors and the Authors Guild, as well as a separate lawsuit filed by five large publishers as representatives of the AAP's membership. I'm on the conference call now and will be updating. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:13:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12502 Google's enterprise team, which needs to work harder to garner attention in the mammoth shadow of the company's search engine and advertising machines, continues to remind people that it's alive and well. Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google Enterprise Search, has written an editorial for Forbes.com. Sponsored by SAP, the piece details , published Friday, Google's quest to make search as efficient for business users as it is for consumers. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:11:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12419 It's been quite the busy month for Google's Gmail team. Mail Goggles left Google Labs to light up the blogosphere, saving people from e-mailing under the influence. Two days ago, Google Labs launched its Canned Responses feature for people tired of responding to the same old questions. Yesterday, the Gmail team launched a faster version of Gmail for J2ME and Blackberry phones . Now Google has created and launched emoticons for Gmail. Unlike Mail Goggles and Canned Responses, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:18:22 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12404 What's the most heavily used application on your mobile phone? Is it search? Maybe it's YouTube or some cool game you can't keep from playing. For some, it's Gmail, for work and play. Google's mobile team today took big steps to improve the speed and performance of Gmail on RIM Blackberry and any phone whose operating system is Java Micro Edition. Go to m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser to download it Gmail for mobile 2.0, as the refresh is called. Derek Phillips, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:16:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12382 Google is reminding users to go to its 2008 U.S. Voter Info site . Google unveiled the site Oct. 1 but it didn't get a lot of coverage. I originally noted it here for eWEEK . The site is very useful. I can remember at 18 having to ask my parents, somewhat ashamedly, how to go about voting and where. Those newly of voting age, or even adults in a new town, needn't worry anymore. The site helps citizens find where to cast their ballots from now until Election Day, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:49:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12352 Google launched its Android Market store today to coincide with the launch of T-Mobile's G1 smart phone, the first gadget based on the Android mobile OS. Android Market is a place where users can download apps to their G1 and future Android phones, and even rate or comment on apps they liked or hated. Android Mobile Platform Product Manager Eric Chu said in a blog post that t here are already over 50 apps available in Android Market today, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:13:03 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12336 Google continued to help make its Gmail users even lazier with the introduction of a "Canned Response" feature for its Web mail application. It's not as cute as Mail Goggles , but could be every bit as useful. The feature, which you can turn on in Gmail Labs, allows users to compose a reply and save it with canned response button, a boon for users tired of typing the same reply every time someone emails them. Once turned on, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:41:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12297 Last week, blogs were abuzz with the discovery that the terms of service for Google's Android Market application Web site has a "kill switch" to squash malicious applications. This enables Google to turn off an app that you may have downloaded to a phone based on Android, Google's mobile operating system software. Google's language is: "Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement... in such an instance, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:56:07 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12253 An interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal Oct. 20 notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is campaigning for U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama, appearing with him Tuesday in Florida to moderate a panel on the economy. The WSJ paints Schmidt's move as a "push for a greater voice in politics," and at the conclusion, cites unnamed sources who suggest that Schmidt might covet the CTO role Obama has talked about creating. This notion is absurd. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:03:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12202 Yesterday I published this short post on the new canvas view and left navigation changes Google made to its iGoogle homepage application. I couldn't say much then because Google hadn't yet pinged one of its illustrious data centers to switch my new iGoogle page on. Of course, an hour after I posted Google did flip that switch and I've been accessing the new iGoogle for the last 18 hours or so. I'm comfortable with the changes. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12163 Slow news day at Google ahead of third quarter earnings. How do I know? In a press release and four (4!) blog posts today, Google trumpeted the launch of a redesigned iGoogle home page, which includes full canvas views to let users expand a gadget to access more content. Google also moved the top, horizontal navigation tabs to the left and made them run down the page vertically, which should help users move from one canvas to another with one click. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:39:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12153 Google Chief Economist Hal Varian continues to enlighten the public on what makes Google's search moneymaker tick, explaining the value of quality scores for the company's search engine ad auction. Call it Google's latest plank of defense for its pending deal with Yahoo, which would let Yahoo run Google search ads alongside its own results . The Association of National Advertisers , U.S. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:02:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12118 Tomorrow could be a telling day for Internet stocks, with Google slated to report third quarter earnings. It could also tell us nothing, if, as some reports suggest, Google's search advertising sales may not be severely impacted by the recession. As I noted last week, Citi Investment Group expects Google to announce $4.47 billion in net revenue and $4.77 in non-GAAP earnings per share, compared with consensus expectations of $4.76 billion and an EPS of $4.81. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:45:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12068 It looks like civil heads are prevailing among the parties involved in the search ad deal between Google and Yahoo . The Wall Street Journal today said Google and Yahoo are hashing out concessions that will make it easier for the U.S. Justice Department to allow the deal to pass muster. This comes after Google said the deal , in which Yahoo would run Google keywords alongside its search results , Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:34:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12028 Bloomberg Friday posted a fine feature about how a technology chief in Washington, D.C. inked a $500,000 a year contract with Google to grant some 38,000 municipal employees access to Google Apps. This includes Gmail and the Google Docs spreadsheet and word processing software among other things, which the article notes are alternatives to Microsoft's Office productivity suite. We've seen these stories before and I've written some. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:55:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11968 Financial analysts are taking a dim view of Google's third quarter earnings announcement for Oct. 16, a day that could set the tone for Internet stocks that are already taking a beating. Shares of Google spiraled to $345 and change Tuesday, but that lamentation proved premature: Google is trading at around $315 as I write this after closing at $328.98 last night. That means that in 11 months, Google's stock has lost more than half of its valuation. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:24:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11877 Lest you thought there weren't enough venues for people to lend their ruminations on the volatile stock market and brittle U.S. economy, Google has made the harrowing subject the centerpiece of a new debate series on its erstwhile Wikipedia-killer knol service . The first debate kicked off with a discussion on the state of the US economy, with Daniel J. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:46:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11840 Everyone in the blogosphere and media is having fun with this one, so I don't want to miss out because this is quite the party feature. Google Gmail engineer Jon Perlow, who presumably when we he was taking a break from working on anything important regarding Gmail, has created Mail Goggles for Gmail . The feature's name comes from the "beer goggles" syndrome. Perlow has created a feature that lets you practice safe e-mailing, saving you from sending irreverent, vulgar, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:01:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11792 Much has been made about Google's Android mobile operating system stack as an open source platform with an asterisk . Sure, it's been open sourced for programmers to use, but the devices that run it, starting with the lone T-Mobile G1 smart phone, have their own restrictions. It seems Android isn't the only open source product from Google that comes with some limits to the search engine's largesse. Chrome may very well be an open source Web browser based on Webkit, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:58:37 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11702 Sometimes in this business, when you read enough opinions, offhand comments or outright vitriol, you can get caught jumping the gun and drawing ill-conceived, intemperate conclusions just from a headline or two. Take for example, this headline: "Kohl Weighs in With Justice Department Over Google-Yahoo Agreement," which tops a letter sent from Herb Kohl, (D-WI) and chairman of the Senate's Antitrust Committee, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:29:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11675 Google launched a new home page for Google Blog Search , leveraging some of the content situation tools from Google News. This may or may not be a good thing depending on how you like the aesthetics of Google News. Some think it's ugly. I've gotten comfortable with it. As with Google News, blog categories, from politics to technology, entertainment and sports, run vertically on the left side of the Web site, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:58:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11624 Despite the overtures of several Internet companies to be open regarding users' social data, the social Web is still a competitive landscape. It seems Ringside Networks, the now defunct creator of social software applications that lets Web sites operators embed social capabilities within their Web site, got a taste of that scenario, which led to its closing last week. According to this post from Ringside co-founder Bob Bickel , Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:32:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11582 Last week, T-Mobile unveiled the G1 to a flurry of interest from the public who wanted to see the first smart phone based on Google's Android mobile operating system. One of the knocks on the G1 is that it won't support Microsoft Exchange out of the box when it hits retail Oct. 22. Andy Rubin, senior director of mobile platforms at Google, told the audience there is "no Exchange compatibility, but it's a perfect opportunity for a third-party developer." This is a fair, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:39:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11532 In what is clearly a case of politicians supporting its California crown jewel, members of U.S. Congress from California Monday implored the U.S. Department of Justice not to sue to block Google and Yahoo's search advertising agreement. U.S. House Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA.), Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA.) and other Democratic members of U.S. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:14:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11524 Less than two weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters that Google was hardly feeling Wall Street's financial crisis. "My guess is the drama is in New York, not here. It's business as usual at Google," he said. Google's search, ads and apps machine may be turning a robust dollar, but it's stock took a beating this afternoon, dropping $50 at market close to $381 , or percent 11.6, from Friday's close of $431. This is lower than Google has traded in two years. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:42:38 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11470 Who better to hold forth on the future of the Internet than a man who presided over the early Web's birth? Indeed, when Google's Chief Internet Analyst Vint Cerf talks about what Web use will be like a decade or more out, people tend to listen. Cerf discussed the future of the Internet in a blog post late yesterday . These "future of" posts are very interesting and if you follow them close, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:54:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11414 The embers that stoked T-Mobile's G1 fire may be smoldering from a lackluster launch , but Android is still red hot. Visa today agreed to build mobile applications that work with smart phones that run on Google's Android mobile operating system. The announcement comes two days after T-Mobile formally unveiled the G1, the first smart phone based on Android. G1 will be available Oct. 22, but you can check out some of the launch here in this video. Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:53:53 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11406 Another Google 20 percent time tool had made its way into the public in the form of a Q&A crowdsourcing app. The search engine has released Google Moderator to let users of Google's App Engine cloud computing application platform decide what questions should be asked. Google Moderator has its roots as a tool created to ease the Q&A process for Google's several "tech talks" on computer science subjects such as ranking images based on text queries in Google search and, Search Engines News SEO News eWeek Google Watch eWeek Google Watch Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:33:50 GMT