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Search Engine Watch
April 21, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Blending the Best of Google and Amazon Amazon.com subsidiary A9 goes beyond Google, offering a number of unique options, including some very cool personalization features.   |
Information Today
Barbara Quint |
Amazon Introduces New Web Search Engine Amazon.com's technical research subsidiary, A9, has released a new search engine that combines Google searching of the Web with searches of Amazon's own full-text collection of books and site information from Amazon's Alexa service. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Is Amazon's A9 Benign? Search junkies can be psyched for a cool site, but will some features backfire? |
InternetNews
April 14, 2004
Pamela Parker |
Amazon Adds Search to E-Commerce The industry's newest search player mixes customer information from its online store into the search results and begins to explore the boundaries of personalization. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Sinks A9 Amazon.com strips its search engine of local color and personality. |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Google Ogles Your Hard Drive The company's Desktop Search utility is an impressive way to find information on your computer. |
InternetNews
February 23, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
A9 Search Looks to Patent Its Shtick A9 hopes to patent the complex server architecture it uses to personalize Web and catalog search results. |
Searcher
August 2004
Richard Wiggins |
GMail: Google Storms the Webmail Market This article explores what Gmail is, how well it works, some very serious flaws that Google needs to address, the embedded targeted advertising and other privacy concerns, and the behind-the-scenes global server and storage infrastructure that could let the company skyrocket past competitors. |
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
April 20, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
InternetNews
January 29, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Updates Toolbar Google Toolbar 4.0 broadens its focus and functionality beyond Google Search, adding four new features: custom buttons, Web-based bookmarks and site-specific search. |
Inc.
April 2005 |
A New Way to Find Small Businesses Amazon's A9 Yellow Pages provide small companies with a new way to be found on the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch
January 30, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Tools Around The search giant is upgrading its search toolbar, but there's much bigger news afoot. Tuesday's earnings release is where the real excitement lies this week for investors. |
PC World
October 24, 2007
Stephen Manes |
Today's Web: Use at Your Own Risk! Sites want the right to snoop on you. But just what do they promise to give you in return? |
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. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Tara Calishain |
The Next Small Thing If you haven't tried a search toolbar yet, you're missing a great way to ease your searching. |
PC World
October 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
Build a Better Browser Ready to make the most of today's Web? These 35 free downloads add invaluable new features to Internet Explorer and Firefox. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search and My History Shall Find My Search History, which went live on Wednesday, lets users access and manage their Google search history from any computer. |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Resolutions for the New Year Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective searcher in the year to come. |
InternetNews
October 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Search Hits The Desktop Google's Desktop Search application, released today, sorts through desktop files of all sorts, as well as AOL Instant Messenger chats and Web sites the user has visited. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Amazon's Secret Sale In another move to steal search, Amazon offers discounts to A9.com users. |
PC World
August 2001
Steve Bass |
The Skinny on Web Searching Want superior Web searches? Seek my way and ye shall find... |
PC World
June 19, 2007
Scott Spanbauer |
Is Google Too Big? With its empire expanding, the search giant can have an unprecedented breadth of knowledge about you. Can we trust it with so much data? |
PC World
July 2004
Steve Bass |
Web-Based E-Mail; Gmail: Google's E-Mail Winner If you've had your fill of Web-based e-mail burdened with skimpy storage and cluttered interfaces, say hello to Google's free Gmail. |
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. |
Macworld
May 25, 2007
Dan Moren |
Google Desktop Search engine's desktop software offers power, but little intelligence. |
Search Engine Watch
August 30, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Visualizing Google Search Results MoreGoogle is a simple utility that enhances Google result pages with thumbnail images and other useful links. |
PC Magazine
August 29, 2007
Dan Costa |
You Are What You Search Google's Web History project tells us a lot about ourselves by tracking our search habits, but what info does it give Google about you, too? |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New Google Toolbar Lets Users Rate Pages A new version of the Google toolbar now in beta testing sports a new look -- happy and sad faces that let toolbar users rate web pages... |
Search Engine Watch
February 15, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Google Desktop Fears Overblown? Consumer watchdogs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are urging a boycott of Google's new Desktop Search program, citing privacy concerns. But is it really too risky to use the program? |
PC World
August 2005
Harry McCracken |
A Google, Google, Google, Google World The sovereign of search wants to organize everything. Is there a catch? So long as putting profitable little text ads next to search results enables Google to hire more smart people, it will keep launching products at an equal rate or maybe a greater rate. |
PC Magazine
December 13, 2007
Michael Muchmore |
Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer The new Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer offers you added convenience, but also more chances to relinquish your online privacy. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2005
Tim Gray |
Amazon, A9 Give Virutal Search Tour The companies' A9.com guide offers users a view of the businesses they're searching for. |
Search Engine Watch
October 25, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks Yahoo is releasing a new version of its toolbar with a powerful new bookmarking feature that integrates seamlessly with Yahoo web search, and features a "radical" new user interface. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
'Future of Search Will Make you Dizzy' Search technology pioneer Udi Manber provides a vision of the relevancy and speed of search results. |
Search Engine Watch
January 27, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Amazon's A9 Launches Visual Yellow Pages This new nationwide yellow pages directory comes with a twist--thumbnail images of business storefronts that let you take a virtual walk through the streets of 10 major U.S. cities. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google, Microsoft Face to Face After all the talk, direct competition is finally escalating between Google and Microsoft. It's to a point now that Google even gets mentions in Microsoft company memos. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google Mail: Novelty or Nosy? Does the "G" in "Gmail" stand for "going... going... gone"? |
InternetNews
February 9, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google's Desktop Search Red Flag Google's new desktop search reveals privacy concerns. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Last Train to Askville Amazon's latest Web 2.0 strategy hopes you can come up with the right answer. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 9, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Yahoo Leads in Toolbar Searches Though it continues to fall behind Google in other categories, Yahoo currently holds the lead for the most toolbar searches, but only by the thinnest of margins. |
Information Today
March 28, 2005
Richard W. Wiggins |
Amazon's New OpenSearch Enables Search Syndication Announcing the new service at a technology conference, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said vertical search service will do for search what RSS has done for content. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
InternetNews
June 12, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Shortens Hold Time on User Data From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the announcement this week in response to another round of European Union objections. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
Dave Mathews |
Cover Your Tracks Online Your online activities could, and do, end up in a data-base somewhere. |
