Google lands Web search patent
Date: 2003-02-26 Source: News.com
Google this week was granted its first patent by the United States Patent Office for a method of determining the relevance of Web pages in relation to search queries. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why?
Date: 2003-02-25 Source: SearchDay
More on Google's recent acquisition of Pyra Labs from Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan, who sees signs that Google is sucumbing to 'portal mania' despite its claims to the contrary. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Blooglelicious - the Buzz about Google Buying Pyra Labs
Date: 2003-02-24 Source: Information Today
With hundreds of thousands of blogs out there, filtering for content meaningful to the blog reader is a daunting task. So perhaps that is what this is all about in the end, that Google and its adventurous management just love a good content-driven challenge for their secret search algorithm. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Questions About Google Acquisition
Date: 2003-02-24 Source: The New York Times
People with knowledge of the deal, which gave Pyra founders and investors shares in privately held Google, say it was signed without any real plan as to how the two companies would work together. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
State of the Google Village
Date: 2003-02-23 Source: Google Village
As much as we think Google has arrived at the top spot, this is not yet the ultimate in online search. Relatively speaking, this industry did not come to the fore until about six years ago. Compared to many other industries we are still in the infancy of online search. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Why Did Google Want Blogger?
Date: 2003-02-22 Source: Wired
Cleveland said Google will likely use Blogger to develop sophisticated searches that utilize the rich metadata inherent in the RSS feeds from weblogs: who wrote what and when, what it linked to, what linked to it and its level of popularity with Web surfers. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Sick website taken down
Date: 2003-02-21 Source: icCheshireOnline
Councillors and readers were disgusted earlier this month when we told how a disturbing site could be accessed after innocently typing 'Chester Guide' into the popular search engine run by Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
I Choose Google News
Date: 2003-02-20 Source: Traffick.com
The thing that really strikes me about Google News is just how much power local newspapers and independent news sources have now that they are routinely linked to from one of the world's most popular web sites. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Puzzling Out Google's Blogger Acquisition
Date: 2003-02-18 Source: SearchDay
Pundits are scratching their heads over Saturday's surprise announcement that Google had bought weblog publishing heavyweight Pyra Labs, but a look at the big picture reveals some intriguing scenarios for "Bloggle's" future. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Deal Ties Company to Weblogs
Date: 2003-02-17 Source: The New York Times
Google has bought Pyra Labs, the creator of software for publishing Weblogs, a form of hyperlinked online journal that has become an increasingly popular way to distribute and collect information on the Web. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google gets Blogger and better
Date: 2003-02-17 Source: Guardian Unlimited
The fact that the world's favourite search engine has bought one of the pioneers of the online diary is probably good news for most net users, says Neil McIntosh. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Bloogleplications
Date: 2003-02-16 Source: EVHEAD
So yes, I sold the company I've poured the last four years of my life into. ...I was only convinced after brainstorming with our people and their people about why and how we could do much cooler things for our users and the web at an incredibly large scale by being part of Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google buys Pyra in big boost for blogging
Date: 2003-02-16 Source: SiliconValley.com
More than most Web companies, Google has grasped the distributed nature of the online world, and has seen that the real power of cyberspace is in what we create collectively. We are beginning to see that power brought to bear. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
A Valentine From Google!
Date: 2003-02-14 Source: Google Village
Google does have some growing up to do. However, it will need some cash to really grow up significantly, and it indeed may just wish to go public in order to meet growing worldwide competition head on. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google goes public
Date: 2003-02-14 Source: Red Herring
If only technology's most successful private company would go public, the reasoning goes, then the industry would thrive once again. Too bad business doesn't operate on "ifs" and "onlys." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Cache Reveals Computer World's Secret
Date: 2003-02-13 Source: Google Village
When is something on the Internet and when is it not on the Internet? Does Google have an obligation to keep/pull something when it has been pulled by a site owner? Is the Google Cache a record of what has been, or should it be seen as something different? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Named Brand of the Year
Date: 2003-02-11 Source: InternetNews.com
In 2002, Google became synonymous in the public imagination with Internet search - - so much so that readers of Interbrand's BrandChannel.com site voted Google the brand of the year. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
