SportsLine's new teammate: Google
Date: 2003-03-31 Source: News.com
The company said the use of sponsored links from Google's network of advertisers on all search results pages initiated on Sportline.com will provide the sports content company with additional revenue every time a Web user clicks on the sponsored results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google tests distributed computing
Date: 2003-03-27 Source: News.com
Google this week introduced Google Compute, a new feature of its toolbar that lets Microsoft Windows users donate their otherwise unused processing power to help solve scientific problems. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Brin: No IPO Plans
Date: 2003-03-26 Source: InternetNews.com
Eager investors will just have to wait. Google's co-founder and president of technology, Sergey Brin, told an audience on Tuesday that the search company was unlikely to file an initial public offering (IPO) anytime soon. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google, ad networks team on text ads
Date: 2003-03-26 Source: News.com
Google has partnered with two online-advertising networks to display pay-for- performance text ads across sites affiliated with the networks--a move aimed at rapidly expanding the search giant's marketing business. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Co-founder downplays Google IPO
Date: 2003-03-25 Source: News.com
Brin explained that competitors would gain insight on Google's finances. He added that going public could cause the company to focus too closely on short-term financial concerns and distract employees who watch the day-to- day movements of the stock. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Signs Search Deal With Top Korean Portal
Date: 2003-03-20 Source: InternetNews.com
The deal means Daum, which is Korea's top portal, decided to split its search business down the middle, partnering with Google rival Overture Services in a three-year exclusive paid-listings deal two months ago. The financial terms and duration of the Google deal were not disclosed. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Joins With Daum for Internet Search
Date: 2003-03-19 Source: Korea Times
Google is forging an alliance with Daum Communications, Korea’s biggest online portal as part of its move to challenge the domestic online search engine market where domestic companies, such as NHN and Empas, dominate. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's rivals face daunting challenge
Date: 2003-03-13 Source: Canada.com
The willingness to use an alternative to Google is a win- win scenario. It encourages other search engines to compete, and it keeps Google honest and forces the company to improve its technology. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google flotation could end the search for a new star
Date: 2003-03-07 Source: FT.com
Can Google survive the expectations that have already built up around it - or will it suffer the hubris that brought low a generation of dotcoms before it? And can it create a lasting business in an industry where there is always some hot, new company in the wings with the technology to build a better mousetrap? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google
Date: 2003-03-04 Source: Wired
Why bother pounding at a website in search of obscure holes when you can simply waltz in through the front door? Hackers have recently done just that, turning to Google to help simplify the task of honing in on their targets. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google takes the plunge
Date: 2003-03-03 Source: Guardian Unlimited
Most analysts agree the main reason Google has bought out Pyra is to tap into Blogger's huge data stream, rather than to exploit the users themselves; content and links are the lifeblood of their search engine, and immediate access to millions of pages of dynamic content as they are created will allow Google to further strengthen its market-leading position. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Protecting Google Name "Tricky Business"
Date: 2003-02-27 Source: InternetNews.com
Even as the company's marketers celebrate its growing clout, its lawyers wage a quiet campaign to ensure Google's name doesn't become a generic synonym for Internet search -- a designation with serious competitive repercussions. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Do you, uh, Google?
Date: 2003-02-26 Source: News.com
In a sign that Google is maturing from its hippie-geek roots and becoming a corporate big wheel, the search company's legal counsel recently muscled a small Web site over the use--or alleged misuse--of the Google name. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
