Google reportedly exploring IPO
Date: 2003-10-23 Source: News.com
Web search giant Google could go public early next year using an unusual electronic bidding and placement system that aims to put individuals on an equal footing with powerful institutional investors, according to a published report. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Blog on
Date: 2003-10-22 Source: News.com
Forget whistling while you work. Many Googlers are blogging while hard at work on the world's largest search engine, thanks to a simple technology Evan Williams developed. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google part-restores baseball blockage
Date: 2003-10-22 Source: The Register
Google was blocking hundreds of thousands of results for the search terms "watch baseball London" and "watching baseball London". By Monday morning, the former query returned zero results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google: Not just a search engine anymore
Date: 2003-10-22 Source: The Badger Herald
A Google search of a university web site begins when a person types in a word or phrase to find within the university's site. For colleges registered with Google's new tracking software, the sought-after word or phrase is saved and relayed back to the college. This information allows subscribing universities to see what people are searching for on their sites. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Adwords lands Google in the dock
Date: 2003-10-20 Source: silicon.com
The company recently sold the keywords "bourse des vols" (flight market) within the framework of its Adwords marketing. Only it forgot to check that it wasn't already someone's registered trademark and its understandably aggrieved owner, an online travel agent, has now had the search giant convicted for trademark infringement. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Next Step
Date: 2003-10-20 Source: E-Commerce Times
"Only by understanding my interests and what I've browsed in the past will search be able to be really refined for consumers," Creese says. "They know they'll have to do something along these lines in the future. But if anyone can do it, it's Google." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Why Google should stop being so 'evil'
Date: 2003-10-20 Source: MediaGuardian.co.uk
Does Google have enough confidence in its own overriding un-evilness to encourage critics to speak out rather than trying to silence them? Is its goal to make a huge sack of money or to develop the best set of search, publishing and advertising tools the world has ever seen? Personally, I think it's the latter and that the company will soon get itself back on track. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Emergency fixes for blog-clogged Google
Date: 2003-10-17 Source: The Register
Perhaps with its executives fixated on an IPO, and aggressively expanding the company's advertising franchise, Google has forgotten that it once had a search engine too, way back when. Perhaps the executives would like to attend to it now. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
20 Great Google Secrets
Date: 2003-10-16 Source: PC Magazine
Google's search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers. Let's look at some of Google's lesser-known options. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Alert Shows the Power of Google's Web API Program
Date: 2003-10-15 Source: Traffick
One of the first applications of Google's Web API with universal appeal was Google Alert, which tracks searches automatically and e-mails you when Google's search results change for those terms. That's a great timesaver and a new way of researching information on the Web. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Blog noise achieves Google KO
Date: 2003-10-14 Source: The Register
Originally intended as a tool that allowed people to publish their personal diaries, weblog software has swiftly evolved, accreting several "innovations" that have had catastrophic consequences for Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google sponsoring coder contest
Date: 2003-10-14 Source: SiliconValley.com
Here's your chance to be Silicon Valley Chief Geek: Beat out thousands of the nation's programmers in a Google-run contest to solve coding problems on deadline. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Gunning for Google
Date: 2003-10-13 Source: Fool.com
Many forces are driving Google to an IPO. But perhaps the real reason is that Web search has become a war. After all, search is the gateway to the Web and, most importantly, e-commerce; in a sense, it is a tollbooth. And we all know tollbooths can be great business. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
More Google Problems
Date: 2003-10-11 Source: Search Engine Lowdown
Gary Stock, founder of Google Whacking has posted information about recent strange problems at Google. He has dubbed these GoogleNACK (as in Negative ACKnowledgements) and offers detailed examples. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google bug blocks thousands of sites
Date: 2003-10-10 Source: The Register
It's been called a "Google-NACK": you enter a particular search term and Google tells you that there are thousands of matching results, but fails to return many, or any results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Secret: 'Cheap and Fast' Hardware
Date: 2003-10-10 Source: PCWorld.com
By using commodity PC hardware, which is similar to that of home PCs, Google buys cheap and builds high levels of redundancy into its system in an effort to compensate for the fact that one full day of Google use on a server is the equivalent of 40 machine years, Nevill-Manning said. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google IPO push gathers momentum
Date: 2003-10-09 Source: Canada.com
Industry experts believe the popular search engine could be just months away from a stock exchange listing, given the likelihood of greater competition from Microsoft in the paid search advertising market. "It would be wise to do an IPO before Microsoft fully engages them in competition," says Rob Enderle, an independent technology analyst. "They would be seen as more valuable." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Accepts Porn Ads but Refuses Those for Guns
Date: 2003-10-07 Source: CNSNews.com
A federally licensed firearms dealer in Connecticut is upset the Google search engine will accept ads for pornographic websites that illegally show their materials to underage children but will not accept ads from licensed gun dealers selling a legal product to adults. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Frequent Seacher Miles?
Date: 2003-10-07 Source: About Web Search
Some have speculated that Google is using the counter to conduct research of search patterns while others point out that Google could track search queries in a Big Brotheresque manner in order to track down individuals searching for questionable material. Others have suggested that Google may be thinking of running a contest to reward Google regulars. For now, Google is isn't revealing any secrets. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Testing Frequent Searcher Program
Date: 2003-10-06 Source: SearchDay
Ever wonder just how often you use Google in a day? Soon you may be able to get an exact count thanks to a Google search counter the company has been quietly testing with a small group of users. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
