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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
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 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds More Fresh Pages, Changes Robots.txt & 403 Errors, Gains iWon Over the past month, Google has stepped up the number of pages that it is spidering on a daily basis in an effort to increase the freshness of its database. The search engine has also picked up iWon as a new customer for its search results. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Fiddling with File Types In the computer age, each software program seems to have one or more distinct file types in which it saves individual documents. While the Web has pushed a single format, HTML, one of the Net's great strengths has been its ability to make many other file formats available as well. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
Google Speaks Languages, WAP, Adds Other Features Google has unveiled beta versions of its site for non-English speakers and those accessing the web using wireless devices. The search engine has also added new features to its search results and launched a new "university" search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New At Google: More File Types, Page Snapshots For Some, & Webmaster Help Not content with being the only major search engine to list PDF files, Google now lists Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from across the web, as well as Rich Text Format and PostScript files... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google's New Look & New File Types Google's home page, known for its elegant simplicity, has gotten a little more complex. New tabs were introduced yesterday, to give users easier access to the search engine's features... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 18, 2006
Chris Sherman |
A Closer Look at Google Docs & Spreadsheets Google has integrated its online spreadsheet and word processor into a single free service that's now available to anyone with a Google account. How does it compare to Microsoft Word & Excel? |
PC Magazine
October 17, 2006
Edward Mendelson |
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Google Docs & Spreadsheets online word processor and spreadsheet isn't perfect, but it's one of our favorite no-software-necessary productivity apps. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google News It was another busy month for Google, so here's a compilation of stories that cover its new news search service, a new Search Microsoft feature, how the Google Toolbar is being used to solve genetic puzzles and other items... |
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
October 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Docs: Spreadsheets, Writely on The Web Google is scheduled to officially launch Google Docs & Spreadsheets later today at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. |
InternetNews
February 7, 2008 |
Google Apps Adds Workgroup Features For Businesses Google Apps helps business users set up and manage their own work groups. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Google's Growing Index A new patent could quadruple Google's searching capability. |
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. |
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? |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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
April 19, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
iLOR Makes Google Even Better iLOR is a new search service that takes the power and relevancy of Google's results and adds on some nifty features than many searchers may find useful... |
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
March 2, 2006
Dan Muse |
Google Search Appliance Gets a Little More Mini In a move to make its search appliance appeal to the smallest of small businesses, Google today announced a lower-priced Mini. |
InternetNews
February 20, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Scribd Looks To Be The YouTube Of Documents For anyone frustrated with Web publishing via PDF and HTML, iPaper may solve their problems. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
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
October 29, 2004
Gus Venditto |
Google Takes a Risk The company is wading further into its customers' lives with Google Desktop Search. But can you trust Google with your secrets? |
InternetNews
January 12, 2006
Tim Gray |
Google Touts Bigger Mini The latest version of Google Mini is available with two new capacity upgrades. |
InternetNews
November 27, 2007 |
Report: Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data Google is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
February 9, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Google Desktop Gets New Features Google has released Google Desktop 3.0 beta, which includes several new features -- three of which Google considers 'major' enhancements. |
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
June 27, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Adds Playback to Video Search Google Video Search now includes video content uploaded by users, and this content can be displayed directly in your browser window. |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web.... |
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? |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Google's Next Step? Today, Google Finance is nothing more than a neat new service. Tomorrow, it could be the gateway to a Google-powered browser loaded with accessible, Office-like services and deep hooks into the best information the Web has to offer. Watch out, Microsoft. Investors, take note. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gains More Features The folks at Google have been busy, adding a new advanced search page, a preferences page, dictionary links and a Korean-language version. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Security Concerns Security issues with Lycos and Google came up in July. They aren't likely to impact many, if any, users, so don't get panicked. Here's a rundown on what happened... |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Unveils New Server Appliance Web search engine company Google has announced a new line of server appliances intended for enterprises that wish to harness its crawling, searching, and page-ranking capabilities in order to index millions of documents hidden behind corporate firewalls... |
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
October 6, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Print Opens Widely To Publishers Google's nearly year-old Google Print program is set for a huge expansion of content through the launch of a new program today allowing publishers to more easily submit material for inclusion. |
ONLINE
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
