Google is spending more money on lobbying than ever before, as legal woes continue to plague the search giant. By September 30, Google had already spent $5.9 million on lobbying. For all of 2010, Google spent $5.6 million on lobbying. This quart.

Groupon filed a civil complaint October 24 in an Illinois court accusing two former sales managers of taking trades secrets with them when they quit Groupon to join Google. Michael Nolan, who worked for Groupon for two years, and Brian Hann.

Google has made a change to the way advanced searches are done, much to the annoyance of numerous power users. Seems Google no longer is allowing use of the plus sign to indicate mandated inclusion in the search result offerings. In Query Refineme.

I'm not usually one for a conspiracy theory, unless it's contained within a decent yarn like "The Da Vinci Code", but over the last year in particular, I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Google wants to get rid .

All of us in international search will tell you that if you want to go international, then you'll have to be international. In other words: don't skimp out on localization and translation. Several businesses would like to implement s.

Microsoft's U.S. patent application, "Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results," outlines a search system that would allow users to search the web as their favorite celebrity. Other possible uses for the technology include s.

The Google MP3 store is set to launch in one to two weeks. The music store will include a song-sharing service that's integrated with Google+. At the time of launch, Google is likely to have licenses with only two of the four major labels. New I.

Google is working with potential partners to put together a bid for Yahoo. While Google could have plenty of motives for that bid, it may simply be joining the fray to ensure that competitors pay the maximum price for this major acquisition. Goo.

No marketing department has infinite time or money. We are constantly refining our answer to the question "What is the best way to spend our time and money?" And we do that: When we're building a media plan When we measure .

Seems many Google executives have children enrolled in the Waldorf schools in Los Altos where computers are not used until the 8th grade and even then only on a limited basis. As the New York Times reported, computers "are not allowed in the cla.

The data for September 2011 has just been released by comScore Video Metrix. It shows that 182 million U.S. Internet users watched 39.8 billion videos that month. This means 85.3 percent of the U.S. Internet audience watched online video content i.

Google is continuing its implementation of cleaner, crisper designs with a new Gmail look and a streamlined Google Reader. While Gmail is getting some added functionality, Reader is losing many of its social features in favor of Google+ integratio.

Vic Gundotra and Sergey Brin took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit to speak with John Battelle in a candid half-hour interview on all things Google. Users will be allowed to use pseudonyms soon, as Google plans to relax their controversial real names p.

In the new biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson, Jobs is quoted as stating that Android's use of Apple's ideas equated to "grand theft," and that Jobs was "willing to go thermonuclear war on this." Jobs made no secret of his dislik.

As the Internet has become an integral part of every company's marketing strategy, there's been a feverish push by companies of all sizes to create more easily discoverable online content. A massive explosion of content has, in part, d.

At SES Chicago 2011, I'm moderating the Screw Viral Videos session. The speakers will be Austin Craig, the Orabrush Spokesman, and Jeffrey Harmon, the Chief Marketing Officer of Orabrush. And they've got some marketing success stories .

Google announced that AdWords Express will now be available to all UK and Germany advertisers. Google released AdWords Express in late July as a way to help local businesses get more traffic to their websites and Places pages. AdWords expre.

Webpreneur Stanley K. Burrell, better known as former rapper MC Hammer, is working on a new search engine called WireDoo. His plan to enter the competitive search space pits Hammer against Google, Bing, and other established search engines, though.

This week, I've mostly been playing with Siri. Not being in possession of an iPhone 4s myself, I have been borrowing one from the Incisive US HR Co-ordinator, Matt Cohen. Ordinarily, it is extremely annoying when someone constantly wants to borrow.

A bidding war for a potential buy of Yahoo is in the preliminary stages. While Microsoft, Alibaba, and several purchasing groups ready their figures and hunt for partners, Yahoo's Jerry Yang assures us that a buyout is only option being examined. .