What's the Story With . . . Google? It's By Far the Most-Used Internet Search Engine, and It's Expanding Its Services All the Time. Is Google in Danger of Becoming Big Brother?
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By MATT ROPER  FOR a company with the motto "don't be evil", Google is showing signs that its halo is beginning to slip. Not content with being a way to search the internet quickly and simply, the company this week declared its intention to catalogue and control the world's information.
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Amazon joined the search engine market with its new company A9.com (see our coverage) that offers a personalized search engine. Not to be outdone, Yahoo!
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The search engine is good for more than just scouring the Web. It's also a powerful tool for the shadier side of online data collection.
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Because it's a search engine Google links to more than 11.5bn web pages - and it's responsible for the content posted to every single one them. At least, Brian Retkin thinks so.â¦
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Google and the History of Link Building  I can't begin to tell you how sick I am of reading articles and posts that mention the two words "Google" and "penalty" in the same sentence!  So many webmasters are walking on eggshells these days when it comes to Google, and it just doesn't ...
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According to a recent study from Nielsen//Netratings, Yahoo &#038; Ask.com are growing faster than Google in terms of search engine usage. While Google still undoubtedly holds the number one spot for the amount of searches at over 3 billion searches in the past year, or 49.6% of the search engine market share; Yahoo search usage grew [...]
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By Alan MacDermid  WHAT, only a billion dollars? What have they been doing for the past three months? It's not the reaction you normally expect to good news, but Google, the search engine that threatens to eat cyberspace, has just had a hard lesson in avarice from its shareholders.
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The alternative search engine buys Bloglines in a move to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo. Also: Mitsubishi feels the financial pain of repeated scandals.... EarthLink earnings are up and looking good... and more.
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As a literary reporter, I spend most of my waking hours tracking people down and trying to connect the dots. Which is to say, Iâm a Google addict. In recent years, tons of ink has been spilled about Google â as a business model, as an intellectual phenomenon and as a way of reflecting on [...].
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How do I stop the various Internet search services from recording every keyword I use? It can be embarrassing when somebody sits down at my desk and starts to type in a Google search, and when the first letter is typed, all  of my searches starting with that letter appear.
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Google Founders Selling Off Stock  Is this a sign that Google stack is overpriced? Or does it just mean that since there is so much interest in Google and its shares right now that the founders decided to sell off a big part of their holdings with the search engine. Dow ...
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Google leads the charge of indexing information outside the web as it turns to TV. Also: Video-game maker Take Two buys a chunk of Sega & hellip;.  Google hiring practices raise eyebrows and speculations on future projects & hellip;. and more.
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Google is Growing â An Update on Google  There is a lot going on at the Googleplex these days. For three different reasons, each of which is important to search marketing, Google has been in the SEO spotlight this week. For the technology wonks, Google engineers are said to be developing ...
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Search Engine Marketing Issues - Link Popularity  For years, "link popularity" and "Google PageRank" have been the talk of the town in the search engine optimization community. However, the definition of link popularity and how it differs from PageRank (PR), as well as how much effect these actually have on search ...
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Coinciding with the preview of Microsoft's new MSN Search, Google has announced its search index has nearly doubled to a massive 8 billion documents. The company says users will now find more results on obscure topics that previously returned just a handful of Web pages. The new index places Google's search scope far beyond its rivals, but as Google V.P. of Engineering Bill Coughran notes, "The real test is how well we do in finding what you want from within those pages. We'll keep improving that too."
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The Search Engine Showdown  If you're anything like me, you have a favorite search engine and you're loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research difficult for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-all and you even go so far as to deny any shortcomings ...
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Google Search Index Booms to 8 Billion  Google had something up their sleeve. It seems that whenever a competitor does something big, such as MSN announcing the beta launch of their new search engine, Google has to "one up" them somehow. Just as the news wires started flaming with MSN Beta ...