Politico ran a story the other day named Google denies special deal for Barack Obama. The story starts off explaining how Google gives Obama and the democratic campaign special access to features that the republicans do not get

As mentioned recently, things have been busy down at Linden Lab. While search is scheduled to be revamped, the other big news, announced on May 31 was the promised timeline for the introduction of Mesh to the live Second Life grid.

Google’s various APIs are designed to allow coders to run amok (in a good way) with Google resources. That’s certainly been demonstrated with the Google Maps API, where the Grand Theft Auto community has implemented full Street View on their map o…

Google is testing showing the number of clicks on the AdWords ads. I personally do not see it but Steve Weldler informed me of it on Twitter and he shared a pretty bad screen shot

comScore, Hitwise and other reporting agencies share market share of various online properties including Google’s market share versus Bing or Yahoo and other search engines…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Remember the woman in Utah who used Google Maps’ walking directions, was hit by a car and sued? The case is Rosenberg v. Harwood and Google was successful in getting almost all the claims against the company dismissed last week.

Google’s planned purchase of publisher-side ad optimization firm Admeld is expected to be reviewed by the Department of Justice to ensure it doesn’t illegally inhibit competition in the display advertising industry. That according to reports from The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Up Close With Google’s Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web..