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Information Today
February 19, 2001
Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Acquires Deja.com Deja's story is one more reminder that the utopian days of the Net are gone, and that if a service doesn't have a viable means of financial support, users are unwise to assume its permanent presence...   |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gets Bigger, Fresher, Offers Better News In December, Google became the first crawler-based search engine to break the 1.5 billion web page mark. In addition, the service rolled out changes designed to improve the freshness of its results and the ability for users to find news... |
Search Engine Watch
March 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Acquires Deja Newsgroup Service Google purchased the Deja newsgroup archives last month and is now running them within its own site. Despite saving the service, Google came under criticism from hardcore Deja users upset about lost functionality during the transition period... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Newsgroup Searching: And Then There Was One Last year, when DejaNews changed its name and pulled away from being a newsgroup-centric service, RemarQ became a strong alternative for those wishing to search discussions in Usenet. But last month, RemarQ became no more, as new owner Critical Path pulled the plug. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update With the crash of the dot com economy, it is perhaps no surprise to see some search engines disappearing from the scene as well. This month's update notes the death of both the Infoseek Web search engine and the Deja.com Usenet search engine... |
Salon.com
June 20, 2000
Andrew Leonard & Katharine Mieszkowski |
Deja.com loses its memory Now that Deja is busy helping you decide what to buy next, it doesn't have room to store its old-school Usenet archives. |
Search Engine Watch
May 12, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Groups Adds Mailing Lists & Other Features, Competes With Yahoo Groups Google has added new mailing list creation functionality to its Google Groups service, giving it a capability that competes directly with the Yahoo Groups service. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Improves Newsgroups, Makes Inroads To Japan Google has now made the full archives of newsgroup postings it acquired from Deja available via its Google Groups service. They date back to March 29, 1995. The company has also launched a new Japan edition and signed deals with major Japanese portals... |
Search Engine Watch
May 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Everything Google Underneath its simple, sparse interface, Google is loaded with useful tools and services, though they're not always easy to find. A new book How to do Everything with Google offers an insider's guide to maximizing the power of the search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Catalog Search In December, Google rolled out a completely unexpected offering: Google Catalogs. The new service allows you to search through the contents of catalogs from over 600 companies... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
A Webby, More Images, Date Range Search & Search Voyeurism At Google Google has enlarged its image search service, added a new date range searching option and unveiled a way to discover popular search topics at the service. The service also received its third Webby award in July... |
Information Today
December 6, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Factiva's North American Customers to Access Full NY Times Archive... Critical Mention Releases New TV Enterprise Version... New Google Groups Beta Launches... |
Search Engine Watch
January 22, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service Google has quietly launched a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Buys Better European Maps Google bought European Internet mapping company Endoxon today, characterizing the move as part of its effort to improve Google Maps and Google Earth in European markets. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why? Why did Google buy Blogger? Most likely for ad distribution and almost certainly not to improve search quality. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google. |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Petition To Save Newsgroup Archives A petition to restore access to previous years of the Deja newsgroup archives has been posted, while the service is up for sale. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
20 Great Google Secrets You already love searching with google. These tips can make finding what you need even easier. |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Google Loses Virginity But Gains A Virgin And so finally it's come -- advertising on Google. They promised something other than banners when the site came out of beta, and Google delivers on that promise. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Answers Service, API Program Google introduced two new interesting features last month. The first, Google Answers, is a beta program that allows users to get personal answers from a professional researcher, in exchange for a fee. The second allows programmers to use the new Google Web APIs... |
Salon.com
January 22, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Relics of the lost bulletin-board tribes Text files preserve some of the vivacity of old-fashioned online conversation. Will Web-based discussions vanish from the historical record? |
Search Engine Watch
March 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Loses Tabs In New Look, Gains Web Alerts & Personalized Search Results Google has rolled a new look that involves dropping its famed search tabs, along with debuting a web alerts service and a personalized search results option. |
Information Today
September 30, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Upgrades Appliance Tool Even as Google cements its dominance in the global search portal market, the company continues to aggressively pursue the intranet and extranet markets with its Google Appliance. |
PC World
June 2003
Steve Bass |
Maximum Google Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2004
Pamela Parker |
Google Boasts of Biggest Index Search giant Google fired a shot across competitors' bows Tuesday by boasting of a 6-billion-item index, featuring more Web pages, images, and book-related information. |
Entrepreneur
September 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
What's the 411? New services from Google and Microsoft are stepping up to put the squeeze on the old 411. |
Information Today
October 7, 2002
Marydee Ojala |
Google Expands Google News From its former hundred or so sources, Google News has expanded to 4,000 English-language news sources that it crawls continuously. |
InternetNews
October 5, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Launches Code Search Billions of lines of code are now available for your searching enjoyment. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Google Goes Forward 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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use. |
Salon.com
June 21, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Google a go-go While other search engines sputter and fail, Monika Henzinger, Google's director of research, has an answer to every query... |
Information Today
Richard W. Wiggins |
New Google Toolbar Feature Lets IE Users 'Browse by Name' If this news gives you deja vu, there's a good reason: You have heard all this before. Google is betting that its popular toolbar will bring Browse by Name users to its service. |
InternetNews
June 6, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Microsoft: Google Spreadsheets is so 10 Years Ago Google wants Excel users to upload their XLS files and share them with Google Spreadsheets. |
PC Magazine
August 8, 2008 |
Top Five Underused Google Services Google Labs... Google Pack... Google Translate... Google Custom Search... |
Information Today
May 29, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Google Universal and Its New Navigation At Google's Searchology event, Google announced several major changes at the search engine, all of which have now begun to appear in Google results. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
There's Google. Then There's Google Desktop The new local search tool is no privacy threat, but it falls short in several ways -- such as fundamental problems in using its Web query and results formats for local searches. But the decision to use it should be based on whether it meets your needs, not scare talk. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Enters Enterprise Search Space Google has introduced a new search appliance, a pizza-box size unit that contains the full Google search functionality for internal networks and intranets... |
Macworld
May 25, 2007
Dan Moren |
Google Desktop Search engine's desktop software offers power, but little intelligence. |
Information Today
December 22, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Google Beta Tests Book Search Service "Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible." Such conservative goal-setting has now led the world's busiest search engine to a new set of content -- books in print. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2006
Tom Taulli |
The Writely Stuff Google bought a very small company, Writely. It may be mostly a hiring decision, but with Google's avid users, massive traffic, and sophisticated advertising infrastructure, an online word processor will give the search giant yet another revenue stream. |
InternetNews
November 1, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Code Gets a WebAssist Google's code, specifically Google Maps, Checkout and Search, are getting a developer assist by way of WebAssist's Dreamweaver Tools for Google, a free add-on for Adobe Dreamweaver users. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Google As News Archivist Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search. |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Building the Universal Library What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? Here is a fascinating look at the challenges. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Google Gets Kid Safe, Suggests Maps Google has added a new feature to filter adult content out of its listings, and the search engine now also provides links to online maps in response to relevant queries. |
Search Engine Watch
November 10, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Personalized Search Leaves Google Labs Google's personalized search has graduated from Google Labs and is now available to users on 39 worldwide Google domains in addition to Google.com. |
InternetNews
May 9, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Back After Going Black Internet search giant Google's engine sputtered briefly over the weekend when its Web site blacked-out, leaving millions of visitors looking for answers elsewhere. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Bush's Dubious Victory At Google For the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting phrase -- think dumb Oedipus -- the top result was to the official George W. Bush campaign store. How on earth did this happen? |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2007 |
Q & A: Rajen Sheth Google Apps On the heels of Google's release of new PowerPoint-like online applications, the product manager of Google Enterprise talks about Google Apps. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Adds Texting Tech Google announced it acquired Zingku's mobile messaging and social networking service. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Options for customizing or personalizing the search forms seems to be the new change of the month... AltaVista has made several significant changes in the past several months... Deja.com has lost much of its older Usenet archives... Excite has modified its results display... etc. |
