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A Search for Google’s Success Turns Up Two Words: Trust and Technology - http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=435
Article that looks on the reasons behind Google success. [Free registration required.] |
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Daring Fireball: Writing for Google - http://daringfireball.net/2004/05/writing_for_google
Weblog entry. If you wish for something you write for web consumption to turn up in a Google search, here are some suggestions. |
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Google is Three Times Bigger Than the Experts Think - http://www.pressflex.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/44/Google_is_three_times_bigger_than_the_experts_think.html
Article from Pressflex.com: "OK, guys, listen closely: Google processes at least three quarters of all Internet searches". |
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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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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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BBC News: Google Hit By Link Bombers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1868395.stm
"Popular search site Google is being exploited by some net users to mount protests and play jokes on their friends." |
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Ogling Google - "Jesus" is Bigger Than "The Beatles" - http://www.pressflex.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/42/Ogling_Google:__Jesus__is_bigger_than__The_Beatles_.html
Explains how AdWords can be used to determine the popularity of given keywords From Pressflex.com. |
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BBC Is Google Good for You? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3334531.stm
The Google search engine has become the Coke of the web, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. |
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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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BBC News: China Blocking Google - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2231101.stm
Beijing bears down on Google, blocking access to the search engine. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Searching leads back to Google - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/19/BU230843.DTL&type=tech
A Henry Norr article on current issues facing Google. |
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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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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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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." |