Google developer doesn't fear pay-for APIs
Date: 2004-03-31 Source: The Register
Yesterday Google launched a free alerts service which looks like a direct competitor to the popular independent service Google Alerts. But Alerts co-founder Gideon Greenspan isn't worried. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Gets Its Groove On
Date: 2004-03-29 Source: Wired
Google has fine-tuned its popular online search engine with a new look designed to drive more traffic to its shopping service, Froogle, and promote little-known tools that aren't featured on its website's sparse front page. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google takes searching personally
Date: 2004-03-29 Source: News.com
In its latest move in the intensifying search wars, the company launches tools designed to let users tailor their searches and receive daily or weekly e-mails on the latest results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google takes searching personally
Date: 2004-03-29 Source: News.com
In its latest move in the intensifying search wars, the company launches tools designed to let users tailor their searches and receive daily or weekly e-mails on the latest results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Shopping Tool 'Froogle' Goes Primetime
Date: 2004-03-29 Source: AuctionBytes.com
After more than a year of beta-testing, Google has brought its shopping comparison search tool, Froogle, to prime time. Google added the "Froogle" link to its main page Monday morning alongside search options Images, Groups and News. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Case for Infospace + Google
Date: 2004-03-29 Source: Traffick
Infospace's seemingly innocuous acquisition of a local online search provider called Switchboard for $160 million in cash may be a harbinger of an impending domino sequence in the local search market and the search engine industry in general. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Grownup at Google
Date: 2004-03-29 Source: WSJ.com
Mr. Schmidt, 48, says he was given one instruction by Google's board: "'Don't screw this up now, Eric. This is a really, really good starting point. ... So it doesn't require some gross change.'" Google's venture backers wanted the company to grow without introducing cumbersome bureaucracy. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Five-domain Googlebomb explodes in boardroom
Date: 2004-03-25 Source: The Register
"Can anybody catch these guys?" is the question posed by Newsweek's cover story in the current issue. Veteran archivist Daniel Brandt has created a Googlebomb which makes the question rather redundant. The bomb is for the phrase 'out of touch executives'. Type the phrase with quotes into the Google search engine, and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky." Or click here, which has the same effect. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google set to woo non-Internet users with voice search
Date: 2004-03-24 Source: ZDNet
Google is not the obvious company to telephone when you are looking for directions to a restaurant or hotel, but the popular search engine's development team is hoping that its emerging voice search facility may over time completely change the concept of a search engine. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Local Search Goes Beta
Date: 2004-03-24 Source: ClickZ
Google's approach to local search involves using yellow-page and business-directory information from third-party providers, integrating it with information about individual businesses from Google's main Web page index. Though the service is still in beta, Google has promoted it from its relatively obscure location in Google Labs to its own Local Search URL. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is Google telling lies?
Date: 2004-03-24 Source: About Web Search
In a blog post over at SiliconValley.com, Dan Gillmor claims that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is telling fibs. Gillmore states in his post that Schmidt "claimed his company's customers were end users, not advertisers. This is not really true." I'm not so sure about that Dan... [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google facing public filing as it grows
Date: 2004-03-23 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
Google.com has been coy about going public even as Wall Street's collective mouth waters, but the Internet giant may soon have to reveal its closely guarded financial performance through another type of public filing, according to securities lawyers tracking the company. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google blackmailer arrested
Date: 2004-03-22 Source: silicon.com
A US man has been charged with extortion after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google - according to court papers he claimed that if they did not pay, he would release a piece of software to spammers to generate fake advertising hits and cost them millions. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Makes a Splash in Local Search
Date: 2004-03-22 Source: TheStreet.com
With Yahoo!, Google and other companies providing local information online, says Sterling, consumer use should increase. "All of these sources should cause more local searches to happen on the Internet, because now people know you can do local searching on the Internet," he says. "You can find local information on the Internet." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
AOL got Google warrants in 2002 -filing
Date: 2004-03-18 Source: Forbes
American Online has the right to buy about 1.9 million preferred shares of Google Inc. for around $22 million, under a 2002 deal with the world's No. 1 Web search engine, AOL parent Time Warner Inc. said in a recent filing. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
