Is Googling Culturally Healthy?
Date: 2004-03-18 Source: About Web Search
In a way, all that information and so-called information can be as dangerous as it is enlightening. After all, how many people take the time to research their online research? Google and the Internet can open up a whole new world of information to people around the world, the question that remains to be seen is if they have the responsibility to handle it. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google goes local
Date: 2004-03-17 Source: News.com
Google is taking search to the streets, helping Web surfers find cafes, parks or even Wi-Fi hot spots in their area. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Goes Local
Date: 2004-03-17 Source: InternetNews.com
The search giant introduces a local search service, setting up a battle with Yahoo! and Verizon for users and advertisers. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Feds slap cuffs on Google stock scammer
Date: 2004-03-12 Source: The Register
The FBI has arrested a Dutch man in connection with a $2.8m stock fraud. Shamoon Rafiq, who has been living in New York City since October 2003, sold non-existent Google stock prior to the company's impending IPO. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
How do I love Google? Let me count the ways
Date: 2004-03-12 Source: ZDNet
I think Google is a model for what the Internet is supposed to be and what most of the players have messed up. Specifically, Google has built its success on what I call the "second-mover advantage." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Content Goes Googling for Dollars
Date: 2004-03-10 Source: EcontentMag.com
PetPlace serves up to 4 million page views a month, and Zucker has the Google ad links run in about half of them. In September, PetPlace reaped about $8,600, and then $11,000 in October. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The perils of Googling
Date: 2004-03-10 Source: The Register
Google and other search tools have made the world available to us all, if we just know what to ask for. It's our job as security pros to help make the folks we work and interact with aware of that fact, in all of its far-reaching ramifications. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's Ads -- and Minuses
Date: 2004-03-09 Source: BusinessWeek
The search engine's policy of not taking ads that slam a third party could end up hurting its reputation, not to mention muffling free speech. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Open Letter to Tim Armstrong, VP of Advertising, Google
Date: 2004-03-04 Source: Traffick
Yesterday, at a session at SES, you reportedly claimed that Google has been studying conversion rates on contextual ads for over a year, that they are "about the same" as search ads, and that you have no plans to change the bidding process to allow advertisers to bid separately on the content targeting. With all due respect, your research is wrong, but more to the point, your principle is wrong. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google's soft spot
Date: 2004-03-03 Source: News.com
While Google has had a fairy-tale beginning, Forrester believes the company will be hard-pressed to live up to its highly anticipated IPO. This is because Google will have to fight three fronts in the upcoming search war--and will likely succeed at only one. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Behind the Rise of Google Lies the Rise in Internet Credibility
Date: 2004-02-27 Source: The New York Times
What has really carried Google to the top is a change in our perception of the Internet. Some of the predictions made for the Internet in the late 1990's were as outlandish as they sounded, especially the economic ones. But a surprising number of predictions about how we would use the Web are being fulfilled. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The hit factory
Date: 2004-02-27 Source: Independent.co.uk
Today, it is the planet's gateway to the internet and is valued at $15bn. But could the Google phenomenon crash as spectacularly as it was born? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Is Searching for the Perfect Hit
Date: 2004-02-25 Source: AlwaysOn
At the recent World Economic Forum meeting, Google CEO Eric Schmidt participated in a panel called Clearing the Data Smog. The group addressed the information explosion and its effect on how we search for, analyze, and use data. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Googlemania!
Date: 2004-02-24 Source: Wired
They named their new search engine Google, for the biggest number they could imagine. But it wasn't big enough. Today Google's a library, an almanac, a settler of bets. It's a parlor game, a dating service, a shopping mall. It's a Microsoft rival. It's a verb. At more than 200 million requests a day, it is, by far, the world's biggest search engine. And now, on the eve of a very public stock offering, it's cast as savior, a harbinger of rebirth in the Valley. How can it be so many things? It's Goooooooooogle. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
