Google charges for web programs
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Google is offering beefed up web programs to businesses in a clear shot at rival Microsoft.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  -  Google is offering merchants free use of its online payment service as it squares off against eBay's market-leading PayPal. The Internet search giant introduced Google Checkout in June, with sweeteners such as free ad credits for merchants. In November, it began offering rebates to consumers, $10 off $30 purchases. PayPal quickly matched the offer. Wednesday, Google ratchets up the pressure by dropping merchant fees through 2007.
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Google Inc. GOOG.O said on   Tuesday it is making it easier to add hundreds of miniature   programs to independent Web sites, in a move that brings handy   features to users instead of making users rely on Google.com.
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By The Associated Press  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. on Friday will join the crowded field of services registering Web site addresses in a move aimed at encouraging more usage of the online search leader's free software products.
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The owner of the world&#39;s second most used internet search engine posted net income of $253.3m (Â£141m) or 17 cents a share, including a gain related to the sale of a portion of its stake in Google.
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NEW YORK - Google Inc., owner of the world's most-used Internet search engine, has introduced interactive advertisements that work like Web pages, allowing clients to target shoppers with more video and images.
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By David Moon  When Google announced a couple of weeks ago that it was paying $1.64 billion for YouTube, all sorts of issues came to mind.  For the folks who don't trade funny videos, YouTube is a free video-sharing site that lets users upload, view and share video clips.
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Jefferson Graham at USA TODAY looks at the new offers being pushed by the Google Checkout online payment system in Google&#8217;s efforts to attract new and large merchants. First Google has worked on boosting consumer demand for Google Checkout by offering $10 off purchases and other incentives - these offerings were quickly matched by PayPal. Now Google [...]
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By Steve Lawson  STAYING with search engines, the daddy of them all, Google, are offering users the chance to download and print off classic novels, free of charge.
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Companies are accused of billing small businesses and nonprofits for "free" trials of Web site services.
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Google Inc. launched its Custom Search Business Edition, a fee-based service that lets businesses build search pages for their own Web sites.
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Google Inc.  is allowing  users to add hundreds of different miniature Web-based programs  built by Google or outside programmers to other sites, the  company said on Tuesday.
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Google has entered into the domain registration game via a partnership with eNom and GoDaddy, wherein Google is only offering the registration of .com, .net, .biz and .info domain extensions. $10 a year is a bit more expensive than some of the other registrars on the market (by a dollar or so) and I find it [...]
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A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary is giving insight into the enormous sums of money that can be made by creating Web pages full of advertising links.In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics, such as &quot;dellbatterrogram.com&quot; in order to put advertising links on the pages.The practice, known as&#160;typosquatting, is illegal. It&#39;s intended to draw unwitting Web surfers to pages with URLs (uniform resource locators) that are similar to legitimate sites, and then redirect them to other sites. The owners of these Web sites get revenue from advertising referral programs every time a link is clicked.The defendants -- Belgiumdomains, Capitoldomains, Domaindoorman, Netrian Ventures, iHoldings.com, Juan Pablo Vazquez, and 10 unnamed defendants -- deny the claims. Dell contends the businesses, most of which are registered outside the U.S., are shell companies engaged in collusion.Dell sought a court order in November to freeze their assets so the money from their operations wouldn&#39;t disappear. Last month, the court amended the freeze order, and contained in the details of the new order are clues to just how much money the defendants may be raking in.Google, whose AdSense advertising-placement program was used to monetize the domains, was ordered to hold in a special account the first $1 million collected on behalf of the defendants each month. The second $1 million that accrues in the account every month will be given to the defendants. If more than $2 million accrues in one month, the money is split between the defendants and the Google account.Google takes a cut of AdSense revenue, which shows that it in part benefits from this kind of abuse of the Internet. However, Google recently announced it will not allow AdSense campaigns on &quot;kited&quot; domains.Kiting is a technique used by some rogue registrars to avoid having to pay the fee for using a domain. The domain is repeatedly registered and unregistered within a five-day Add-Grace Period. The grace period, which applies to a handful of TLDs (Top Level Domains) was intended to let people get a refund of their domain registration fee if they made a spelling mistake.Kiting often goes hand in hand with another abusive practice, &quot;domain tasting.&quot; A domain name is registered and monitored during the grace period to see if it gets sufficient traffic to pay for its registration fee. The domain owners then get refunds on the sites with low traffic. However, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers&#160;(ICANN) is considering keeping a $0.20 fee&#160;it normally refunds as part of the registration process in order to stop tasting.Dell has accused the typosquatter defendants in its lawsuit of both practices and is claiming their profits as well as $100,000 per infringing domain used.Google&#39;s antikiting policy doesn&#39;t apply to domain tasting, meaning the company will still potentially benefit from Web sites intended merely for advertising. A Google spokesman said Tuesday, however, that Web sites are supposed to have legitimate content in order to be accepted into AdSense.Other information in the court documents shed light on the economics of monetizing domain names. Dell contends the defendants control some 1 million domain names, and believes they also have used at least 64 million other unique domain names.When the court froze the defendants&#39; assets in November, it also froze their ability to stop renewing domain names that weren&#39;t producing enough revenue to justify the registration fees. Since the defendants controlled so many domain names, the automatic renewal of those names -- likely around 3,000 domains a day -- cost them $20,000 per day.However, the defendants successfully petitioned the court to cancel domains that were generating less than $8 a year in revenue.&quot;These [figures] tell us that there&#39;s lots of money in tasting, and it&#39;s a game of huge volume,&quot; wrote John Levine, a consultant and author of &quot;The Internet for Dummies&quot; on his blog.The Dell case continues in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.&#160;
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Google charges the software giant is aiming to apply the same allegedly anti-competitive strategies to the Net that it has used to dominate the PC.
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But university officials would be open to the possibility -- especially if someone else foots the bill. Google Inc., the popular online search engine, said Tuesday it would pay for the New York Public Library
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Google Inc. on Wednesday introduced a way to move its online software applications off the Internet, hoping the flexibility will encourage more people to use the free services and extend the company's clout beyond its ubiquitous search engine.