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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 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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Salon: From Beta to Bona Fide - http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/09/23/google/index.html
Janelle Brown's article: "Google, a favorite search engine of the plugged-in crowd, uses its $25 million in venture funding to launch a site almost unchanged from the "test" version." |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BusinessWeek: Can Google's Prodigies Make a Search Tool Pay? - http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/ebiz/ebiz_frame.pl?url=/ebiz/9909/em0929.htm
Neil Gross' article: "Sergey Brin and Larry Page insist that their math wizardry and magical search results can compete with the entertainment-heavy portals". |
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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. |
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PCWorld.com: A Search Engine Worth Gambling On - http://www.pcworld.com/article/12974/a_search_engine_worth_gambling_on.html
"Developed by two Stanford Ph.D. candidates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google is lightning-quick. And, while it's not completely on target, it's close." |
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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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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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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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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] |