LINKS: | - Google's Dilemma: Relevancy Versus Privacy
Date: 2001-10-03 Source: Search Engine Guide
Google recently acquired the technology assets of Outride, a developer of online information retrieval technologies. This could help Google make its results more relevant to users by personalizing their search results. This would be welcomed by many, but for others, it raises privacy concerns.
[Open In New Window] - Google May Get Personal
Date: 2001-10-02 Source: The Search Engine Report
With last month's acquisition of Outride, Google may be poising itself to go forward into an area of search refinement that no major player has gone successfully before: personalized search results. With personalized results, a person would get back a list of results that takes into account some of their demographics.
[Open In New Window] - I'm Feeling Lucky
Date: 2001-10-01 Source: Wired
Google's built a no-nonsense path to profitability by treating advertising just like search. The secret? Three words, ranked by relevance: Results. Results. Results.
[Open In New Window] - Google Seeks Usenet Posts
Date: 2001-09-04 Source: The Search Engine Report
Not content with having Usenet posts back through 1995, Google is seeking out older information to add to its collection. In particular, it is seeking those with NetNews CDs that were published from 1992 through 1995 and is offering a finder's fee for them.
[Open In New Window] - We're In The Money, Says Google
Date: 2001-09-04 Source: The Search Engine Report
Google's profitable and has been so on an operating basis for the past two quarters, the company says. Along with being profitable, the company also has a new chief executive officer, Dr. Eric Schmidt.
[Open In New Window] - Google Wins by Not Hiding the Banana
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Date: 2001-08-27 Source: Search Engine Guide
Industry experts point to a variety of reasons for Google's success. The foundation of their positive buzz was a singular focus and an excellent product. Or as Godin puts it, they didn't hide the banana.
[Open In New Window] - alt.recovery
Date: 2001-05-01 Source: Wired
When Google acquired Deja.com's archive in February, the search engine made it clear it wanted to preserve history as well as make money.
[Open In New Window] - Google Acquires Deja Newsgroup Service
Date: 2001-03-06 Source: Search Engine Watch
Google purchased the Deja newsgroup archives last month and is now running them within its own site. Despite saving the service, Google came under criticism from hardcore Deja users upset about lost functionality during the transition period.
[Open In New Window] - Google buys Deja.com
Date: 2001-02-13 Source: Pandia
The Google search engine has bought Deja.com, the only search engine left on the planet dedicated to Usenet searching.
[Open In New Window] - Bush's Dubious Victory At Google
Date: 2001-02-06 Source: Search Engine Watch
Google's not the only search engine to have experienced this type of oddity when using link analysis. After Infoseek released a new version of its ranking algorithm dubbed ESP in May 1998, some users were surprised to discover the Disney web site coming to the top of Infoseek's results in response to some porn terms.
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