Google Applies Double Standard to Political Vendors
Date: 2003-11-19 Source: aim.org
As a commercial entity, the popular search engine Google has joined the esteemed ranks of media and academic organizations that have a responsibility to be objective but instead choose to manage information based upon an apparent ingrained partisan and socio-ideological bias. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Pre-IPO Google Dossier: An Experiment in Opinion Mining
Date: 2003-11-17 Source: K-Praxis
Google's dominance in the search space is dependent on the perceived non-commercial attitude to Internet Information Retrieval that Google has exhibited. Non-commercial here means that they have tried to solve the problem of hyper linked web information retrieval without tampering (to a large extent) with results for plausible commercial gains. Even though it is unlikely that Google will lose its dominance in the search arena in short term, in the long run Google will have to play a balancing act between importance of unfiltered results and commercial gains. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Growth in Google's revenue engine seen slowing
Date: 2003-11-16 Source: Yahoo! News
While Google is best known for its powerful Web search technology and its brain trust of talented Ph.D.s, its dependence on advertising revenue in some ways resembles a traditional media firm, analysts said. Google and its rivals expect to fuel additional advertising growth by offering local search products and by selling search ads related to Web site content, but some question whether those will be as big as paid-placement has been. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google puts coders to the test
Date: 2003-11-15 Source: The Mercury News
Jimmy Mardell, 25, of Stockholm, Sweden, was announced the winner Friday of Google's second annual Code Jam. He beat out more than 5,000 of the world's top programmers who signed up to compete in Google's contest to solve coding problems on deadline. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Customers rage at Google tweak
Date: 2003-11-14 Source: News.com
In a rare sign of trouble for the booming search marketing business, Google is fending off complaints from angry customers who say recent changes to the company's advertising program are costing them sales. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is Google smarter than us?
Date: 2003-11-13 Source: About Web Search
Google...doing my math homework? That sounds cool! Well, I thought so too. The impressive part is that Google doesn't just add and subtract, it knows percentages, exponentiation, roots, even modulo. (I know! What's modulo!?) [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Are we all subject to 'Googlisation'
Date: 2003-11-12 Source: Net4Nowt
Similarly to Globalisation, Googilisation is a term referring to the propensity for something to be stretched across the global community with its application being delved by the aggregate population. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Gotcha Moment
Date: 2003-11-12 Source: E-Commerce Times
The best and most insidious part about Google's Deskbar is that it out-Microsofts Microsoft. After all, the software giant is always talking about how .NET and other improvements to its products are going to help people do their jobs more efficiently. What's more efficient than a Web search box beckoning right there on the desktop? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's future looking good
Date: 2003-11-09 Source: SFGate.com
Google's image within the Internet industry has shifted. What was once mostly seen as a benign but effective research tool has become a potential threat to other businesses. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Let Google belong to the world - not to Microsoft
Date: 2003-11-09 Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk
As Messrs Doerr and Moritz prepare to cash in their Google chips, I wonder if they have a game plan for their amazing company beyond the IPO. If they have, then they will sell its shares on eBay rather than via Wall Street. Google should belong to the world and not to the banks and pension funds who will cave in to Microsoft. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Adds Desktop Searching
Date: 2003-11-07 Source: PCWorld.com
Google is looking to make inroads into the desktop. On Thursday, the company rolled out its free Google Deskbar software, which allows Windows users to search the Web and applications without opening a browser. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google tests desktop search
Date: 2003-11-07 Source: News.com
Google is testing software that lets people navigate the Web without opening up an Internet browser, placing itself in a field that Microsoft has designs on--desktop search. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Deskbar; Search Engine Forums Spotlight
Date: 2003-11-07 Source: SearchDay
A new Google Labs experiment called the Google Deskbar is a search application that lets PC users perform Google searches at any time from any application. Like the HotBot Deskbar, the Google Deskbar is a free software download that appears as a search box in the Windows taskbar at the bottom right of most Windows-based PCs. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Google Deskbar
Date: 2003-11-07 Source: Pandia
The deskbar is integrated into the Windows taskbar at the bottom of your screen. This means that you can actually search the Web without opening your browser. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The searchers
Date: 2003-11-07 Source: Japan Today
Although Google is well known to Internet users overseas, it is not yet a household name in Japan. One of the main tasks for Murakami and his team is raising awareness through consumer education and by increasing the number of advertisers and partners, among them Nifty, Biglobe, Yahoo, Excite, etc. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Don’t panic yet, human news editors
Date: 2003-11-05 Source: Newsknife
A year of Newsknife’s Google News Watch suggests that automated Google News is a reliable, consistent performer rather than a News Schwarzenegger set to terminate human-edited news sites. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be!
Date: 2003-11-05 Source: SearchDay
A headline frenzy was sparked last Friday when the New York Times reported that Microsoft had talked with Google about a possible takeover within the past two months. No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft and Google
Date: 2003-11-04 Source: IT-Director.com
The Microsoft interest can only help raise the IPO share price, although there may be no sense in Microsoft pursuing an acquisition once an IPO has occurred. After all, Google will almost certainly have a big war chest of its own in the wake of an IPO and ambitions to pursue a business strategy that runs counter to Microsoft's. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
eBay: Google's not a threat
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: News.com
Meg Whitman, chief executive of online auctioneer eBay, on Monday downplayed speculation that its chief business partner, popular search engine Google, was poised to become its biggest rival. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google to Index the Entire Internet in 2006
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: chriSEO
It's a patently stupid claim by Google "We want to index the entire Internet". I've always thought it as such. Perhaps just silly marketing speak. But, if we're talking about the public internet, trends in internet growth suggest they might well do it. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
