Google Extends AdSense Overseas
Date: 2003-12-19 Source: InternetNews.com
Google is taking its AdSense contextual advertising product international, and has begun taking online applications from publishers in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is Google good for you?
Date: 2003-12-19 Source: BBC
It may be slightly early for resolutions, but I am going to make one anyway. 2004 will be the year I break my addiction to Google and improve the quality of my searching. I owe it to myself. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Google Print Experiment: Part 2
Date: 2003-12-19 Source: Search Visibility Report
We get better results if we use an advanced feature of Google that allows us to limit a query to a specific site. Because Google Print pages are stored at print.google.com, a different Web site than www.google.com, we can limit our book searches to print.google.com. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
A Quantum Theory of Internet Value
Date: 2003-12-18 Source: The Register
The fact that Google now "sucks" is in a large part not Google's fault: Google simply reflects what it can see, and most of the Web is simply invisible to Google, as it now lies behind closed doors. Google's aggressive, but essentially dumb robots can only get so far. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Google Print Experiment
Date: 2003-12-18 Source: Search Visibility Report
Google Print is not only about offering a better search experience for consumers, it is also establishing relationships with book publishers. This is part of Google's contingency plan in case they ever need or want to take on the 800-pound guerilla in book search, Amazon. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Introduces Book Searches
Date: 2003-12-17 Source: SearchDay
Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books, blending the content from these works into regular Google search results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Search Ranking Update
Date: 2003-12-17 Source: WebAdvantage.net
The more one looks into Google's new update, the more it makes sense. Google is filtering out link spammers and style of the month search engine optimization techniques from its listings along with one pager affiliate marketing sites. Sure, the update is not perfect… but if we expect to be served results gathered via search engine spamming, why use Google in the first pace. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Here, There, and Everywhere
Date: 2003-12-16 Source: BusinessWeek
Taken to its logical extension of providing an interface for every popular service or sector on the Web, Google becomes the omnipresent middleman and a clear and present danger to just about any company that relies on the Internet for commerce. Which, increasingly, is every company in the developed world. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google tees up Froogle
Date: 2003-12-16 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
It's not an official launch yet, but Google has put product-search service Froogle on its home page just in time for the holidays. Additionally, Froogle's results are now being included in the main Google search-listings page. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Digital revolution leaves Google feeling quite flush
Date: 2003-12-15 Source: San Francisco Business Times
The noted Internet search engine has recently installed digital toilets at its Mountain View offices, co-founder Larry Page disclosed to a gathering of the Churchill Club networking group in San Francisco this month. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Florida Update: One Month Laterpop
Date: 2003-12-15 Source: Search Engine Guide
As we mentioned in the last column, we expected this latest update to be a work in progress. Google confirmed this at the SES show. I pointed out a few instances where the relevancy of results were suffering badly from the broad exclusion of commercial sites. I expected Google to tweak the algorithm to allow for some of these sites to come back in. That seems to be exactly what is happening. Changes seem to be happening almost daily. On the more competitive searches, the new rankings do seem to be catching a lot of the previous spam. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Ailing market pins its comeback hopes on Google
Date: 2003-12-14 Source: The Mercury News
After three years of fear and loathing, are investors ready to embrace the initial public offerings of seductive startups again? As they do with so many other things in modern life, lots of people are counting on Google to supply the answer. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Adds Package Tracking
Date: 2003-12-12 Source: InternetNews.com
Google has quietly rolled out a new Web search feature that lets users track FedEx and UPS packages as part of its continuing push to expand beyond basic keyword queries. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Launches New Search By Number Options, Access Aiport Delay Info
Date: 2003-12-11 Source: ResourceShelf
You can now enter several types of numbers into the Google search box (with some you must use a piece of syntax) and be given a direct link to a specialized database. They've also started to offer a airport delay info feature for U.S. airports by entering an airport code (e.g. SFO for San Francisco) into the search box. You're then given a direct link to the FAA travel delay database. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Guru Danny Sullivan Talks Google
Date: 2003-12-10 Source: WebProNews
Are You Addicted to Google? Go ahead, admit it. You're an addict, too. At the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, Danny Sullivan gave a Keynote speech titled "Google Anonymous" -- the joke is many people seem to be addicted to Google. Danny is considered one of the most prominent search engine marketing experts in the world. He offered a step-by-step process to help people overcome this "addiction." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Intelligence networks go for Google
Date: 2003-12-08 Source: Government Computer News
The Intelink Management Office, which oversees top-secret, secret and sensitive but unclassified intranets for the CIA and other intelligence organizations, has adopted the Google Search Appliance from Google of Mountain View, Calif. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
What Happened To My Site On Google?
Date: 2003-12-07 Source: SearchDay
The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. In this article, Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
