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Searcher
October 2002
Jessamyn West |
Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers When you're a freelance librarian, finding the right niche in a tough job market can be a challenge. When Google Answers started accepting applications for researchers for their online question-answering service in April, I thought I'd found my match. Here's my experience.   |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google Goes Corporate The corporate market is Google's plan to open another revenue channel. |
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
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Google Stumbles Google's policy is to not give guidance. That doesn't change the fact that it did disappoint Wall Street with its fourth-quarter numbers. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Acts To Protect Trademark Google's first publicized action to protect its trademark from being transformed into a generic word has occurred. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Opens Up Its Base The Google Base Data API is now freely available from Google, allowing third party developers to have applications that can interact with Google Base. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2006
David Miller |
A More Personal Side to Google News Google News adds two new customization options to its online news aggregator. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Meet Mr. Anti-Google A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic." |
InternetNews
September 6, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Back in Time With Google Google connects searchers to history and might even make a buck doing it. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Adds Comment Feature to News Starting this week, Google will feature comments from a "special subset" of readers for the stories on its Google News homepage. |
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
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
January 25, 2006
Greg Jarboe |
Beyond Beta: Google News Graduates Google News -- the search engine of choice for journalists and news junkies -- has finally graduated from beta status, and with some shiny new features. |
Information Today
November 22, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google Scholar Focuses on Research-Quality Content The launch of Google Scholar may lead Yahoo! to upgrade searching and presentation of results from its own collection of material from publishers, societies, libraries, and library vendors acquired through its active Content Acquisition Program. |
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
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... |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Was YouTube a Good Deal for Google? Did Google pay too much (or too little) for YouTube? Has the deal been a good one for Google shareholders? |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2004
Tara Calishain |
Google Everywhere Search results can find you many ways. |
Search Engine Watch
February 14, 2006
Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
InternetNews
July 29, 2005 |
Microsoft Wins Google-Hire Restraining Order Microsoft's legal win delays search researcher Kai-Fu Lee's defection indefinitely. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 9, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: The Google Hammer Google has shown that search is big business, and No. 2 Yahoo!, along with Microsoft and IAC/InterActiveCorp, want a bigger piece of that pie. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2005
David Gardner |
Google This Interview Here is an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Vise, the author of the new book The Google Story, on hardware, hard profits, and hefty valuations. |
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. |
