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This Business Week article provides perspective on Google’s growing pains, as the high profile, successful company (fielding an amazing 75% of all search engine queries) increasingly becomes the target of rivals in the advertising and e-commerce arenas. See also this Business Week review of Google’s beta web shopping network search engine, Froogle.
In typical fashion, you will not find any news releases from Google concerning legal issues actually posted on their own website. However, a number of tech publications, such as InfoWorld and PCWorld, have articles today stating that Google is fighting SearchKing’s preliminary injunction, arguing that the motion “contains only bare and conclusory allegations.” The text …
The legal rangling between search engine giant Google and a search engine portal aggregator called SearchKing is playing out in the U.S. Western District Court of Oklahoma. The lawsuit by SearchKing revolves around the use of Googles’ Page Rank Algorithm, a system by which websites are displayed in response to Google queries based on popularity …
According to a survey conducted by online news monitoring service Newsknife, owned by Industry Standard Computing Ltd of New Zealand, Google News is faring well again its competition – “human” powered news sites. Newsknife gave the nod for best news sites for 2002 to CNN, BBC, and Yahoo.
Poynteronline’s two part review of the new HotBot is worth noting. Part I is here, and Part II is here. The author praised the new engine’s capabilities, and feedback from readers championed Google as far superior.
This San Francisco Chronicle article speculates that Yahoo’s December 23 announcement that the company has acquired search engine Inktomi will likely result in several important ramifications. Yahoo’s tracking and monitoring of its growing population of users will increase, along with associated activities geared toward exponentially increasing the marketing of products and services to already ad-saturated …
Once popular search engine HotBot has returned with a new look, new features, and new hopes to lure back all those users who abandoned them for Google.
This BBC commentary by Bill Thompson reviews the much discussed actions of search engine giant Google who has exluded content from their German and French search results. Content that is no longer available originates in what be called hate sites that are actually banned in these countries. See this excellent report, Localized Google search result …
This privacy policy, added on 10/1/2002, clearly states that the site uses cookies and web beacons. The addition of this privacy policy is a result of a recent controversy discussed in my posting “Search Engine AllTheWeb Collects and Sells User Data,” on 9/21/02.
Web site watch-dog Google Watch has filed a complaint with the the Data Inspectorate of Norway, against AllTheWeb, where the company’s parent, Fast Search & Transfer International AS, is based. It alleges that the global search engine is collecting and selling consumer data to DoubleClick, via the use of web bugs, and does not provide …
Fortune Small Business (FSB) columnist Maggie Overfelt offers short reviews and grades for AlltheWeb, Google, MSN, Teoma, WiseNut and Yahoo. Also from FSB, see the article All the Right Moves about the incredible rise in the fortunes of the 4 year old Google, a company that is making what appear to be all the right …
