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Searcher
January 2003
Jessamyn West |
Google Answers Back Or How to Become an Ex Google Answers Researcher   |
Information Today
December 4, 2006
Tara Calishain |
Google Shutters Its Answers Service Google's decision to close down Google Answers has produced a huge amount of discussion and comment from all corners of the Web. |
D-Lib
June 2003
Kenney et al. |
Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers This paper presents the results of a modest study to compare and contrast its digital reference services with those of Google Answers. The study provided an opportunity for librarians to gain insights into how Google's approach to service development and delivery has made it so attractive. |
Information Today
April 22, 2002
Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions... |
InternetNews
November 29, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google Answers Ends Its Run If you have a question for Google Answers, you better hurry up and ask it. Later this week, Google will shut down the service, which allowed people to pose questions, for a fee, in the hopes of getting the perfect answer. |
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... |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Information Today
April 11, 2005
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Google Unveils New Q&A Service Despite a few bugs and no search tab Google rolls out Q&A, a service providing quick answers to your questions. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Google Has No Answer... and That's OK The shuttering of Google Answers might actually be good news. If a company isn't failing at some things, it probably isn't innovating. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Steals Some Answers Google is apparently gearing up to relaunch its Google Answers; this time the Q&A offering will feel a lot more like Yahoo! Answers. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Got Answers.com Online reference site Answers.com extends its contract with Google to fill its website with relevant Google AdWords text ads. The deal sent Answers shares soaring. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained. |
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
March 18, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Bombs Aren't So Scary It sounds frightening. Google Bombs are now going off, where web sites are influencing Google's search results by controlling where they link to and what they say in their links... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google Goes Corporate The corporate market is Google's plan to open another revenue channel. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Little G in Big China Google faces an uphill battle in the world's most populous nation. |
Searcher
June 2004
Paul S. Piper |
Google Spawn: The Culture Surrounding Google Just a few years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a person who hasn't heard of the search engine that bears this name. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Launches Paid Video Download Service The Google Video Store combines video search with Google-made digital rights management and the long-rumored Google Payments system. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google And The Big Brother Nomination This article explores allegations by Google Watch that Google is a threat to privacy and Big Brother like. |
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... |
PC World
September 25, 2002
Linda Rosencrance |
Google Search Leads to Gates of 'Hell' A devilish phrase typed into the search engine reaps Microsoft's Web site as top result. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Google Gets Out Of Beta Google finally lost its "beta" moniker on September 21, with the new site featuring a cleaner look and a new "GoogleScout" related pages feature. |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering As many expected, Google filed to go public today. A quick update on the news and pointers to more information. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. |
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. |
Information Today
May 6, 2002
Tara Calishain |
Yahoo! Service Offers More Advice Than Expertise First Google started an advice service with Google Answers. Now Yahoo! has stepped into the arena with Yahoo! Advice, which is offered through a partnership with LiveAdvice. Is this a new trend in search engine offerings or just a way for these two companies to generate revenue? |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2003
Chris Sherman |
Google Testing Frequent Searcher Program Ever wonder just how often you use Google in a day? Soon you may be able to get an exact count thanks to a Google search counter the company has been quietly testing with a small group of users. |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2004
Tara Calishain |
Google Everywhere Search results can find you many ways. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being unveiled, there's been both support and criticism of the tips and recommendations that Google has posted in various SEO forums. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Privacy At Google & Other Search Engines This article examines what Google and other search engines record about your searches. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2006 |
Top 10 Other Google Discarded Projects Google Answers bites the dust. What else didn't make the cut? 10. Godoogle... 9. Gmail 2.0... etc. |
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. |
Information Today
December 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Gets Social Search Religion Google's Custom Search Engine is for individuals, organizations or business that want to add customized Google Web Search to their Web site or blog. |
Search Engine Watch
November 9, 2006
Brian Smith |
A Closer Look at Google OneBox Results A Q & A with Google Product Marketing Director Debbie Jaffe wraps up our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Search and Destroy Will heavy ad pocketbooks help Microsoft strangle Google? |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google's Suggestive New Service Google Suggest may come as no shock, but it's useful and accurate. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web... |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
