Love ‘em? Hate ‘em? Somewhere in between? This BusinessWeek article examines some of the forces Google are up against, including newspapers, book publishers, and Uncle Sam. The article concludes: “by plunging into new markets with seeming abandon, Google is creating a lot of enemies whose survival may depend on making sure it doesn’t succeed in …

Google Base is quietly being integrated into Google’s main results. Needless to say, it is not being displayed on page 3, result number 27. This should be of concern to anyone who aggegates data and adds little value in the process. Google Base provides real estate listings search, classifieds, and they’ve recently been spotted providing …

Probably the biggest news in “search” over the long weekend was that Google released their not-very-secret-at-all Calendar. There is a tour here. In short, the Google calendar is: Free Open (i.e. you can share it) Flexible (you can create multiple calendars for different events) Searchable (naturally) Thankfully not Web 2.0 It is a very strong …