Google shafts blogger, adds gagging clause to Adsense
Date: 2003-10-02 Source: The Register
If Google follows its own contract to the letter, we could start seeing mass expulsions from the program as users compare information, or even simply discuss the controversy. And surely that's the one thing Google doesn't want to happen. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
InterActiveCorp is talking to Google about search
Date: 2003-10-02 Source: detnews.com
InterActiveCorp Chief Executive Barry Diller said his company, which owns the Citysearch group of Internet sites, is in talks with Google Inc., the most-used Web search service, about collaborating to offer "local" search. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Punctuation at Google and Minor Site Updates
Date: 2003-10-02 Source: Search Engine Showdown
Usually, search engines will replace all punctuation marks with a space when they index Web pages. And if you use a punctuation mark between words in a query, the search becomes a phrase search. Google has a couple exceptions to this rule for two characters. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Gets Personal
Date: 2003-10-01 Source: InternetNews.com
Google said Kaltix's focus is on personalizing search and making it context sensitive. Search engines dream of tailoring the search experience for users. With personalization, a search engine can more intelligently figure out what a user is searching for, based on previous searches. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Boldly Googling into the future
Date: 2003-09-30 Source: ZDNet
Google's chief technology officer Craig Silverstein claims the future of search technology will see science fiction become science fact, but in the meantime, the best option is to fake it. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Acquires Kaltix
Date: 2003-09-30 Source: ResourceShelf
A few months ago ResourceShelf was one of the first sites to report on Kaltix, a company started by Stanford students to "commercialize personal web search technologies." Today, news that the company has been acquired by anothe company that came out of Stanford, Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Personalization in Google's Future?
Date: 2003-09-30 Source: Search Engine Showdown
Today, Google announced its acquisition of Kaltix Corporation. Formed just this past summer in June, Kaltix has been working on developing search technologies related to personalization and context-sensitive searching. What Google will actually do with this technology remains to be seen and will likely take awhile before it is implemented for the public. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Death of Gnutella - Triumph of Google
Date: 2003-09-29 Source: Gnutella News
The most important aspect of a centralized filesharing service is fast, accurate and efficient searches. Downloaders want to find the right tracks from a reliable source. I think that Google will win this fight because nobody does searches better, and I don't see any reason why Google wouldn't want this market. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Location Search...Remember, it's only in beta...
Date: 2003-09-27 Source: About Web Search
The main comment I've heard from people about this new feature is that "it doesn't work." Well, the important thing to keep in mind is that features in the Google Labs are beta versions. That means they are a work in progress and not really ready to be released to the public. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo walls out Trillian
Date: 2003-09-26 Source: News.com
The online giant has begun blocking Trillian software from communicating with its own instant-messenging software as part of its plan to limit third parties from piggybacking on its service. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google News Creator Watches Portal Quiet Critics With 'Best News' Webby
Date: 2003-09-24 Source: Online Journalism Review
A year after its launch, the computer-generated aggregator is still taking flak for how it defines news. But Krishna Bharat has had the satisfaction of seeing growing acceptance of his news site. In a Q&A with OJR, he explains how things work behind the screens, and why he calls the site "a force for democracy." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google and AltaVista test local search
Date: 2003-09-23 Source: Pandia
Given that more and more local shops and services build an online presence, the need for such search facilities should be clear: they could supplement or even replace ads in local newspapers and yellow pages. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google tests search by location
Date: 2003-09-23 Source: web-user.co.uk
Search engine Google is testing a new service that will let surfers search for information based on their location. Google's search by location service helps you focus your search on a specific geographic location in the US. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
