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BBC: Google Celebrates Fifth Birthday - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3084442.stm
The hugely popular search engine, Google, is turning five years old this weekend. |
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CNet: Google Protects Its Search Results - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-883558.html
Gwendolyn Mariano's article: "Dimandja Emoungu got a surprise when he tried to search Google this month: Instead of a results list, he says, the company handed him a 'rude' note denying service." |
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Can the Marcia Brady of Search Stay Sweet? - http://searchenginewatch.com/2164991
Article by Danny Sullivan on the growing dominance of Google and their ability to draw attention to themselves. |
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Let's Get This Straight - Yes, There Is a Better Search Engine - http://archive.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/12/21straight.html
Scott Rosenberg's article: "While the portal sites fiddle, Google catches fire." From Salon Magazine. |
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Science Friday: Google - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Sep/hour1_090503.html
Twenty-four minute NPR radio show segment interviewing Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, and Rael Dornfest, coauthor of two new books about Google. [Realaudio] |
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BBC: Google Data Request Fuels Fears - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4631924.stm
Net experts and civil libertarians fear US official requests for data could set a dangerous precedent. |
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BusinessWeek Online : Google's Ads - and Minuses - http://businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc2004039_1592_tc047.htm
Argues that restrictive and opaque policies regarding Google's Adwords program hurts Google's reputation. |
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BBC News: Google Is 'Feeling Lucky' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1978993.stm
"Seek and ye will find ... two entrepreneurial students with a $100k cheque in their pockets did just that, and founded the internet search engine Google. Peter Day, of BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, checks out a dot.com business that's far from failing". |
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NYTimes.com: Postcards From Planet Google - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/postcards-from-planet-google.html
Discusses how Google organizes and analyses the collective searches of people worldwide. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] |
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NYTimes.com: Sites Become Dependent on Google - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/technology/09NECO.html
Many smaller merchants in specialized niches rely on their sites turning up in Google's free search results. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] |
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BBC: Google Changes Anger Web Businesses - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/3290277.stm
Tweaks to the way the world's biggest search engine works mean many companies no longer show up on rankings. |
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Slashdot: Craig Silverstein Answers Your Google Questions - http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/02/07/03/1352239.shtml?tid=95
11 questions answered covering technical, business model, and site ranking issues. |
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Who's Naughty, Who's Nice: Google Christmas 2003 - http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca/newsletter-35.htm
Barry Welford's summary of what happened in the Google Florida Update and the likely reasons. Includes a discussion of stemming and Applied Semantics. |
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Pandia: PageRank For Sale - http://www.pandia.com/features/pagerank.html
SearchKing has started selling text ads on its network of independent portals, with prices based on Google PageRank. Jono Craig asks Robert Massa of SearchKing if he really believes he can get away with it. |
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NetProfit: Google''s Florida Update: One Month Later - http://www.enquiro.com/net-profit/Google's-Florida-Update.asp
Gord Hotchkiss of Search Engine Positioning looks at Google's new algorithm and reactions to it. Includes the possible use of Applied Semantics. |
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MSNBC: Can Google's Search Engine Find Profits? - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-102541.html
"Google.com seems to have it all...But one thing Google doesn't seem to have -- or at least isn't answering questions about -- is a business plan." |
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The Register: Google Labs Passes Borges Test - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/23/google_labs_passes_borges_test/
Andrew Orlowski's article: "Google has opened its kimono on some new labs work, soliciting feedback for four experimental features." |
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Wired News: A Catalog to Catalog All Catalogs - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/12/49187
"Google's catalog search combs the pages of more than 600 current catalogs -- 1,500 including back issues -- to help both consumers and corporations find everything from apple butter to zipper doodles." |
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SearchEngineWatch: Happy Birthday, Google! - http://searchenginewatch.com/2160731
Five years ago, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their fledgling startup, notes Chris Sherman. |
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Linux Gazette: Sergey Brin - http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/correa.html
Transcript of an interview with Google's co-founder. |
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The Search Engine Report: Google Goes Forward - http://searchenginewatch.com/2167311
"While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal." |
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Information Today: Google Buys Applied Semantics - http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbreader.asp?ArticleID=16713
Google announced that it has acquired Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, California-based company known for its semantic text processing technology. |
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MediaGuardian.co.uk: How Google Got It So Right - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/may/06/mondaymediasection.comment1
David Teather's article: "The success of Google, the internet search engine, has come about through the old fashioned form of viral marketing: word of mouth." |
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CNN.com: Going Ga-ga for Google - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/24/google.idg/
Liane Gouthro's article: "Fickle Web surfers often switch from one search engine to another as if they were brands of soap. But one that has drawn a loyal following is Google, a search engine launched last fall with a different twist." |
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Forbes.com: How Google Is That? - http://www.forbes.com/1999/10/04/feat.html
Om Malik's article: "The reason why all these Valley hotshots are going gaga over Google is because the company has a search technology that is far better than anything else out there." |
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USA Today: Thrill of Hunt Lures Google Competitors - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/2002/05/13/search.htm
Jefferson Graham's article: "Even as Google keeps growing, competitors are taking aim at the Internet's top search service." |
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WorldNetDaily: Google bans Christian ad - http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39992
Anti-homosexual remarks considered to be 'hate' content. |
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PCWorld.com: War, Music, Magic Sought in 2001 - http://www.pcworld.com/article/77328/war_music_magic_sought_in_2001.html
"Inquiring minds searched the Internet on a virtual cornucopia of topics during 2001, stretching from war and terrorism to music, magic, and prophecy, according to a listing of top queries released by Google." |
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USA Today: Google Hit With Patent Suit Over 'Paid Listings' - http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/04/05/google-suit.htm
"Internet advertising company Overture Services said Friday it sued search-engine company Google, alleging that Google's system for featuring paid advertisements infringes an Overture patent". |
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Google's Florida Shake Up: A View from the Beginning - http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/600/
Jim Hedger of the Internet Search Engines Database presents a compilation of his reactions and conclusions over weeks following Google change of 16 November. |