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Links to the SEC filings here and here. From the Financial Times, the full-text of an “unconventional” letter from Google’s founders that accompanied their IPO application. See also Unusual Google Language Might Prompt Closer Look By SEC. From the New York Times, Google’s Sale of Its Shares Will Defy Wall St. Tradition
Application of the DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions to Search Engines, by Craig W. Walker, Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 9, Issue 1 – Winter 2004: “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) established procedures that Internet service providers can implement to gain protection from liability for copyright infringement by their users. Under DMCA “notice …
Press release from iProspect: “..results from a recent survey indicate that 56.7 percent of Internet users use the same search engine or directory when they are looking for information, and another 30.5 percent of Web users have a few specific search engines they use regularly. A small amount of Web users, 12.8 percent, said they …
Trends in Blog Searching, by Christina K. Pikas, a Techical Services Librarian at JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory, provides a valuable resource on the effective use of general search engines and blog search engines.
“People Search: Famous People – Search the name of a famous person and Jeeves will show you a picture, provide background information, and return other relevant links.”
From NewsKnife, an organization that rates news sites, their current survey, December 2003 through March 2004, lists the most relevant news sites based on Google searches, as follows: The New York Times, Reuters, The Washington Post, ABC News, Voice of America and the San Francisco Chronicle. The complete alphabetical list of the top 81 sites …
Googles Big Eyes are on Your E-mail Google E-Mail Ad Plans Raise Fears About Privacy Google Launches Limited Release of New E-Mail Service
Google press release: Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail – User Complaint About Existing Services Leads Google to Create Search-Based Webmail “Gmail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. …
All Eyes on Google The IPO: Giddy Over Going Public Little Engines That Can – Even Google can’t think of everything. A host of start-ups are working to fill niches and capitalize on the search boom. Talk Transcript: Steven Levy Talked About Google and the Search Wars.
Google launched a subtle redesign of their site this Sunday. Result screens now use predominantly blue and green colors, the tabs are gone, the shopping site Froogle has a more prominent position on the main page, and additional services are accessible through clicking More. Other enhancements include the following: “Google Web Alerts (Beta) are sent …
What’s new with Yahoo! News Search? “Yahoo! News Search gives you access to over 7,000 news sources from around the world.”
See Google Local Search (beta), “Find local businesses and services on the web.” From the Google press release: “This new feature enables users to find relevant local information with neighborhood business listings, maps, directions, and useful web pages.” See also Yahoo’s Smart View, introduced March 9.
