- Google grows up
Date: 2002-10-14 Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Success of popular search engine could threaten its alliance with Yahoo. Yahoo executives said they may add other search engines in the future or buy their own. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Google Degraded? Geeks Aghast
Date: 2002-10-05 Source: Wired
Critics posting to weblogs and search engine discussion sites claim that, for the first time since its launch in 1998, Google results have been degraded rather than improved by the latest tweak to its proprietary scoring algorithm for Web pages, known as PageRank. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Happy Birthday, Google!
Date: 2002-09-10 Source: SearchDay
Four years ago, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated the company. The reason? So they could cash a $100,000 personal check that had been sitting in Page's desk drawer for a couple of weeks. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Google Out To Make a Buck?
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Date: 2002-09-05 Source: Search Engine Guide
It's surprising to me that the reader would make a special effort to criticize the most trustworthy player in the space -- one which keeps its search results free of ads -- when there is so much sleaze out there that merits consideration. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Google: Can The Marsha Brady Of Search Stay Sweet?
Date: 2002-09-03 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained, especially given that Google faces plenty of competition. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] - Googling Over the Web
Date: 2002-09-01 Source: Red Herring
I'm not surprised by Google's success. Like Ebay, Google incorporates into its service one of the core tenets of the Web--leverage the intelligence of each user for the betterment of the larger community. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window] |