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70+20+10 Equals Google
In a conversation with John Battelle, Google CEO Eric Schmidt discussed the percentages of time Googlers work on aspects of the business...but he won't discuss Microsoft.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-30

Google Stock "Not For Weak Stomachs"
A Merrill Lynch analyst sees some short term risk in place for shares of high-flying Google, and a need for long term revenue alternatives.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-29

Will Google's Stock Pass $500?
It got to quittin' time Wednesday and I buzzed on home daydreaming about the nearly suicidal feast that was awaiting me the next day-I could leave Google in Mountain View for Thanksgiving, I thought. But during the commute, listening to the only guy that makes Wall Street interesting for me on the radio...
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-28

Why Did WebmasterWorld Ban Google?
When I first saw this news I thought it was some sort of news parody. Who would think that WebmasterWorld wouldn't want traffic from search engines.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-27

Thanksgiving On The Net
One of the biggest times of the year for just about anyone with something to sell is the holidays. Companies on the Internet are no different. There are tons of sites with the history of Thanksgiving, recipes, craft ideas and tons of other stuff. Some sites are better than others. I've included a few here that I like.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-24

Google Starts Click-To-Call Ads
Users who find a green phone icon in the sponsored search results on Google can click on it to call the advertiser, as Google begins testing the pay-per-call advertising method.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-23

Google Jamming For Code In China
The Summer of Code will spend the autumn and early winter in China, where Google will offer valuable prizes to Chinese participants who win the competition.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-23

Google Mini Needed Big Security Patch
The search appliance that has been part of a recent Google hardware promotion contained a "highly critical" flaw leading to the presence of several exploitable bugs.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-22

Giggity-Giggity Google Base
Yin and yang, man. If one were to accept the task of indexing the world's information, it would seem right and proper to index the good, the bad, the ugly and the pornographic-as long as it's not illegal. As par for the Internet course, Google Base has become an online porn store in record time-or maybe a bad neighborhood directory.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-22

Google Searching For Korean Opportunity
Interviews are taking place at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to fill several roles in Seoul, including product managers, marketing managers and finance managers, and a CEO.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-21

Google, Authors, Publishers, NYPL, Etc
A live blogger at last night's "intellectual law smackdown" featuring Google, the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers, and Wired Magazine captured the rancorous debate about Google Book Search.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-18

Cringely Sees Google Trucking Along
Pundit Robert X Cringely, who recently keynoted WebMasterWorld's PubCon in Las Vegas, claims to know what Google wants with all the dark fiber it's reportedly purchased, but we think there's another reason.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-18

Alibaba Wishes To Make Google Disappear
Now that it has absorbed Yahoo China, Jack Ma's Alibaba wants to be the top search site in China and render the whole Google versus Microsoft fight over China moot.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-17

Google Base Arrives
Google has opened up its massive server farms to host user-submitted content that it will index and make searchable. The company opened up Google Base to users today.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-16

Yahoo Blasts Into The Shoposphere
Just in time for the holiday shopping rush, Yahoo has made a "social commerce" update to its site to add community feedback on products to the shopping experience.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-15

What If Santa Used PayPal?
Sometimes, thinking up a unique gift for that almost-special-enough-to-give-a-real-gift someone in your life is just more of a commitment than you're willing to suffer. In that Yuletide "I don't have time for you" spirit, PayPal announced that merchants who accept PayPal...
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-15

Google to Win the Net: PubCon 2005
Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft. There are basically four major players on in the Internet world today. Few would argue much with that statement. Likewise, it's no big secret that the actions and maneuvers made by the big four have a direct impact on practically every online business.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-15

Google Analytics To Alter Google Algorithm?
The big news today is that Google has made Urchin free and renamed it Google Analytics. This could be a serious blow to competitors such as WebTrends, although I doubt Google will initially offer a free package that competes on an enterprise level.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-14

Yahoo: Bling Vs Tech Sensibilities
Yahoo the tech company, with its Silicon Valley heritage and credibility, operates far differently than Yahoo the media company in ego-filled Santa Monica.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-14

Google is Building Yahoo 2.0
In his posting titled Reading the Google Tea Leaves, Tristan compares various product offerings from Google against those of the "big three" (AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) and concludes...
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-10

Welcome To The Googleconomy
Information is power. Google knows that. It also knows that information is money, lots of it. The up-until-recently-only-a search company has the world's most powerful and wealthy corporations reexamining how they see life, the universe, and everything.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-08

Google Local Mobilizes
The extension of Google Local and its maps to wireless phones will include satellite imagery just as it is available from a computer. A free download for Java-enabled phones lets users take Google Local for mobile along for a trip.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-07

Google Desktop 2 Sheds Beta Label
The search engine company's information utility has become an official Google product, and goes out the door with a few enhancements to celebrate its post-beta status.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-04

Being A Google Addict Can Be Good
"She never mentions the word addiction in certain company," or so the song goes, but Garett Rogers has learned that sometimes, addiction is good, especially if it's to a certain company. After maintaining an investigative weblog devoted entirely to all things Google, Garett landed himself a job.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-04

Gates Dismissive Of Google
Bill Gates thinks that users should benefit from using one search engine or another, and predicts price competition could emerge as engines bid for users.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-03

Gnosh Munches On Social Networks
The developers behind the Gnosh meta-search call it "dim-sum for the web," and it puts all kind of searched morsels on the user's plate. For once a search engine has come from an institute of higher learning that isn't called ‘Stanford.'
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-03

Yahoo! Gives It To Google Down Under
When you're the champ, everybody takes a shot-and sometimes it's a shot below the belt (the belt being the equator). Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand gives a bloke a second option if, for some strange reason, they want search for Google on Yahoo!.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-03

Saying The Unspeakable About Google
Thankfully it's John Dvorak playing connect the dots with the Internet's past and Google's present and future, because the points are hard to argue. When Bill Gates recently said Google was most like Microsoft, more than any other competitor, he may have been making a more subtle statement than most people realized.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-02

Googling TV Ads
Google redefined the advertising business. They've had a prolific impact on both the Internet and the advertising world. They remodeled the look of ads and in just a few short years Google is on track to become the fourth largest ad seller behind Viacom, News Corp. and Disney. Is Google heading for TV too?
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-02

Yahoo Helps Pimp Your Ride
On Halloween, the portal company launched Yahoo Autos Custom, a beta site focused on car enthusiasts and their automobiles. Yahoo has had an Autos site for a while, where it helps users find more information on buying new cars.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-11-01