John Battelle's Searchblog

Who says Google doesn't play the tagging, sharing, social search game? Not Google. Today it released a new version of its toolbar that's very....well...Web 2.0. From SEW coverage: Google has enhanc...

Nor can I. Thank God for Rebecca....

Remember how Pontiac was pushing its line of cars by asking you to "Google Pontiac"? (See here for the background). In my post, I wrote: Now, when I Google Pontiac, I see two sponsored links up top...

...is that Google is, for the first time, being a content editor. I've written extensively about how Google, by its very DNA, does not like to be an editor of content. But in China, it's doing exac...

That this slipped by: Google AdSense begins rich media beta test. In other words, "floating ads", interstitials, and expanding ads...oh my!...

I'm speaking with these guys next week. For now, you can read about them here....(SiliconBeat) Meet Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, two of the co-founders at Junglee, and who twice seriously...

A reader asked me: Does Google keep logs of searches correlated with IP address or other personally identifiable information for users who have not logged in? I knew it kept parts of this data, but...

Who wants to have stories like this written? It just feels so ... wrong. A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant has responded by fixing its ...

In a PDF report (download from Searchblog), Bear Stearns Analyst Robert Peck speculates that Google will launch a music store soon. Sure they will, and it will take lessons from video. Gary Price g...

From the Seattle PI: "We made a big mistake," Mayer, who oversees all of Google's search products, said Tuesday. "You can't come out and launch a product like Google Video and say 'CSI' and 'Surviv...