Google News from other News Media:
Google's share of search market falls, Nielsen says
[Google's search engine, lost market share in December for the first time
since June, according to Nielsen Online. Queries to Google fell to 56.3%
from 57.7% in November. Yahoo Search dropped to 17.7% from 17.9%.
Microsoft captured 13.8% of searches, up from 12% in November.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 1-19-2008)
Mobile-application developers grow tired of waiting for Google's Android code
[Dubbed Android, after a company Google acquired in 2005, the software
promised by Google's Open Handset Alliance was supposed to give
programmers everything they needed to design a sophisticated cell
phone and add their own applications. But Google has yet to deliver.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 1-19-2008)
Google's philanthropy aims to change the world
[Can nearly $2 billion make the world a better place? Google aims to find out.
Google wants to: (1) Help communities identify local "hot spots" before they turn
into local, regional or global crises, like a mass pandemic. (2) Fix failing
public services in developing countries, especially for the poor. (3) Target
medium-size business - "the missing middle" - that can't access resources available
to large businesses and micro-enterprises. (4) Develop renewable energy cheaper
than coal. (5) Accelerate the commercialization of plug-in vehicles.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 1-18-2008)
GPS adds dimension to online photos [To plan an upcoming hike in the Alps,
John Higham scoured scores of photos plotted along his route on a digital map
for clues to the steepness of trails and the availability of accommodations or
camp sites. This emerging practice is known as "geotagging". Photo-sharing services
like SmugMug, Google's Picasa & Panoramio, and Yahoo's Flickr let you manually add
photos to a map. Google also extended geotagging to its YouTube video-sharing site.]
(By Anick Jesdanun, AP Internet Writer, SiliconValley.com, 1-18-2008)
Google.org to disburse more than $26M
[Google Inc.'s philanthropic arm is making more than $26 million in new grants
and investments in organizations and companies devoted to causes that the
Internet search leader believes will help make the world a better place.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-17-2008)
Google's unofficial food critic: Chefs woo techie who e-mails reviews to co-workers
[Thunder Parley is the most famous foodie at a company that takes gastronomy
nearly as seriously as Web-search algorithms. He draws crowds to dishes offered
in Google's 17 cafeterias by championing them in reviews he posts to an internal
e-mail list about food. Google chefs compete good-naturedly to entice Parley to
their cafes, according to John Dickman, Google's global food service manager.]
(By Jessica Guynn, Los Angeles Times, SiliconValley.com, 1-16-2008)
Magellan partners with Google for local listings on connected GPS device
[Magellan Navigation Inc. has teamed with Google to put local business listings
on its first portable navigation device to feature wireless connectivity.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-5-2008)
NASA to fly over Arctic in Google founders' jet
[A Gulfstream V aircraft owned by Google's founders is taking flight today on
a scientific mission to view what's anticipated to be one of the most brilliant
meteor showers of the new year, NASA officials reported. Scientists believe the
Quadrantid meteor shower may produce more than 100 visible meteors/hour at its peak.]
(By Melanie Carroll, Bay Area News Group, SiliconValley.com, 1-3-2008)
Google change triggers uproar [A small change to Google Reader
has caused a big stir among users of the online service, which lets
people gather updates of blogs and Web sites onto a single Web page.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 12-27-2007)
Reports: Japan's largest mobile phone carrier in deal with Google
[Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will join with Internet search engine
Google to provide Internet search and e-mail services on the company's handsets.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-24-2007)
Google gets OK to buy ad firm: Doublclick deal raises no antitrust concerns
[Google won FTC approval to proceed with its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition
of DoubleClick, although the agency acknowledged concerns about the impact
that combining two online advertising giants could have on consumer privacy.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 12-21-2007)
Google adds Columbia University to Web books project
[Google added to its online book library Columbia University, the fourth Ivy League
school to join. Google will make hundreds of Columbia's book collections available
in digital form for free. The collections range from architecture to political
science. Columbia is the 28th institution to sign onto Google's library project.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2007)
Chinese company sues Google over the name 'Guge'
[Beijing Guge Sci-Tech Co. was officially registered at the Beijing Municipal
Industrial and Commercial Bureau on April 19, 2006, but Google didn't register
the name "Guge" in China until Nov. 24, 2006. Google says the name "Guge,"
which is not a Chinese word, was created by the Beijing-based company.
The Chinese characters mean "valley" and "song."]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2007)
Google working on Internet encyclopedia
[Google is working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material
submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from
their knowledge. The concept, in a posting on Google's Web site, poses a potential
challenge to the nonprofit Wikipedia, which has drawn upon the collective wisdom
of unpaid, anonymous contributors to emerge as a widely used reference tool.
Google is calling its alternative "knol" shorthand for a "unit of knowledge.
"
For now, submissions are by invitation only as Google fine tunes the system,
but Google said it will eventually publish articles by all comers.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2007)
Google adds e-mail, calendar tabs to site for iPhone
[Google added buttons to its homepage for Apple's iPhone so users can
check e-mail, view their calendars and track blogs on a single site.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 12-6-2007)
Google to battle telecom giants for wireless Web
[Count Larry and Sergey in. After weeks of playing coy, Google said it will bid
in the auction for a highly coveted part of the nation's airwaves, setting the
stage for a multibillion-dollar game of corporate poker that could determine
who controls the wireless Web in the U.S. Other players include AT&T and
Verizon Wireless, the two biggest cell phone companies, as well as Frontline
Wireless, a start-up backed by venture capitalists John Doerr & Ram Shriram.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 12-1-2007)
Google: Go green for cost of coal [Google said that it'll spend
"tens of millions" to research clean-energy alternatives to coal-fired
power plants and "hundreds of millions" to cut the costs of this power.]
(By Matt Nauman, San Jose Mercury News, 11-28-2007)
Google plans online storage service [Google plans to offer online storage
as part of an attempt to shift personal computing to the Web. This essentially
frees consumers to view their data wherever they are and makes them less dependent
on a single hard drive. This intensifies Google's competition with Microsoft, since
a consumer who stores data on the Web may have less need for Microsoft's desktop
software. When data, services and applications are stored and run from Internet
servers, are referred to as "cloud computing" in contrast to desktop computing.]
(Wall Street Journal report cited in San Jose Mercury News, 11-27-2007)
Tech takes back seat during Obama's visit to Google [Obama told about his
his last 2004 visit to Google in his book, "The Audacity of Hope." He mentioned
a screen image of the revolving Earth in Google's front lobby with points of light
emanating from around the globe and shooting into the atmosphere. Those were points
where Google searches from computer users were happening at the moment. "What struck
me wasn't the light, but the darkness," he said - those areas in Africa, China,
parts of America and elsewhere that don't have computer access. "You and I must
not settle for anything less than bringing light" to that darkness, Obama said.
When asked about his perceived lack of experience for the White House,
Obama drove home a point the audience could appreciate. "Sergey and Larry
didn't have a lot of experience starting this Fortune 100 company,"
he said of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.]
(By Julia Prodis Sulek, San Jose Mercury News, 11-15-2007)
Google co-founder Larry Page to wed [Silicon Valley's richest bachelor is
getting married next month. Google's co-founder Larry Page, whose stake in the
Internet search leader is worth about $20 billion, and Lucy Southworth are tying
the knot in a ceremony scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8, according to a report
published Tuesday in the San Francisco Chronicle. Page, 34, is following in the
footsteps of Google's other founder, Sergey Brin, who married Anne Wojcicki six months
ago in an exclusive ceremony in the Caribbean. Southworth was a biomedical informatics
doctoral student at Stanford. Page has been dating Southworth for more than a year.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-14-2007)
Google offering cash prizes to code writers [Google, hoping to gin up
excitement among developers for its mobile-phone operating system, is offering
$10 million in prizes to code writers to create applications for the new
platform, known as Android. Cash prizes will range from $25,000 to $275,000,]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 11-12-2007)
Microsoft CEO plays down Google threat in online business [Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch new Windows Live services, played down the
threat of Google on Thursday, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in
online searches. Microsoft began offering its Windows Live programming package
for e-mail, instant messaging, blogging and photo-sharing in Japan]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-8-2007)
Google to help lost drivers: Gas station pumps will display local maps, print directions
[Lost drivers soon will be able to Google for help at the pump. The pumps, made by
Gilbarco Veeder-Root, include an Internet connection and display Google's map service
on a small screen. Motorists will be able to scroll through several categories to find
local landmarks, hotels, restaurants and hospitals selected by the gas station's owner.
After the driver selects a destination, the pump will print out directions.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-7-2007)
Google dials into the cell phone market [Google wants to become as influential
in the mobile market as it is on the InternetÐand the online search leader thinks
it can do that without sticking its prized brand on a cell phone. Google is hoping
Android opens another lucrative channel for peddling ads and services to people
when they're away from their personal computers, supplementing their online revenue.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-5-2007)
Google stock price soars above $700 for first time
[Google gained $12.23 to finish at a new peak of $707. It took less than a month
for the stock to leap from $600 to $700, building upon a fervor that has lifted
Google's market value by 34% since mid-September. During that 6 1/2-week stretch,
Google created an additional $55 billion in shareholder wealth. That dwarfs the
total $42 billion market value of Yahoo, which had a 4-year head start on Google.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-31-2007)
Google to buy Nielsen data [Determined to sell more television ads, Internet
search leader Google is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data
from the influential Nielsen Co. Even as it expands its ad platform into TV, radio
and print, Google continues to make most of its money from text-based ad links
posted next to search results and other online content. The Google alliance appeals
to Nielsen because the rating firm is trying to develop new measurement techniques
and extend its reach into more digital media, such as iPods and mobile phones.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-23-2007)
New Google tools help with Hindi, other S. Asian languages
[Google unveiled two tools to help users with English keyboards write
in Hindi and search for terms in 14 languages spoken in India and other
countries in South Asia. Users can search for Web sites in Assamese,
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and other languages.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 8-21-2007)
Google's growth has come at a price [Since Google went public
Aug. 19, 2004, at $85 a share, its market value has grown nearly 500%
to $156 billion. In comparison, Microsoft's value had not quite
quadrupled on its 3rd anniversary way back in March 1989.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-19-2007)
Google: Mobile search will help it get bigger than Baidu in China
[The number of Chinese consumers searching for information on their
mobile phones may surpass those visiting Web sites on computers by 2009.]
(Bloomberg News, SiliconValley.com, 8-17-2007)
Airline sues Google over keyword ads
[American Airlines is suing Google over the Internet company's sale
of keywords ads for rivals triggered by its own trademarks.]
(By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-17-2007)
Google's AdSense to distribute videos
[Short Internet videos from the creator of the animated TV show
"Family Guy" and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show
"That's So Raven," will be distributed over Google's AdSense network]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-16-2007)
Google distributing Sun office software for free
[Google quietly began including Sun's StarOffice suite of
word processing, spreadsheets and other workplace-oriented
programs for free as part of the Google Pack download.]
(By JORDAN ROBERTSON, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-15-2007)
Google leases historic HP site: Search Engine Giant's Spree Leases Former Agilent HQ
[In a real-estate spree that shows no sign of stopping, upstart Google has leased
395 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. The office building, which served as Agilent Technologies'
headquarters for six years, was the site of HP's original 10,000-square-foot campus, built
two years after founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard left the famous garage.]
(By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, 7-12-2007)
* Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World
[In Building 45 on Google's Mountain View campus, John Hanke clicks the 3-foot image
of Earth projected on his office wall and spins it around to India. Hanke, the director
of Google Earth and Google Maps, zooms in for a closer look at Bangalore.]
(By Evan Ratliff, Wired Magazine 15.07, 6-26-2007)
Google, Intel going green [Google and Intel threw their weight behind
an initiative Tuesday to help blunt the impact of global warming by
bringing greater energy efficiency to personal computers and servers.]
(By Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News, 6-13-2007)
Suit vs. Google, YouTube widens
[Federation Francaise de Tennis, the Ligue de Football Professionel
soccer group and Cherry Lane Music Publishing, back England's Football
Association Premier League in its suit against Google, Inc.]
(By Jeff St. Onge & Ari Levy, Bloomberg News, 6-7-2007)
Salesforce.com to unveil Google ad channel
[Salesforce.com will roll out a new version of its service so its
32,300 customers can distribute their online ads through Google,]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 6-5-2007)
Google buys RSS firm FeedBurner [Google paid $100 million for
FeedBurner, a Chicago company focused on distributing digital media
through a technology known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 6-2-2007)
Google's new mapping feature includes unwitting subjects
[Google bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it
looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures
that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 6-1-2007)
Street-level views added to Google's Internet maps site
[Google announced it would add a two-dimensional "street view" to
five cities in Google Maps, letting users navigate the streets in
the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-30-2007)
Google service translates results in 12 languages
[Besides English, Google's search-results translator works in
Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian,
Japanese, Korean, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 5-24-2007)
Google aims for 3-D world
[Google is hoping a robotic car will prove to be a secret weapon in its
ongoing battle with Microsoft to extend the frontiers of the Internet.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-19-2007)
Google to use YouTube to amass video database
[Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion. It may provide a way for Google
to easily and legally amass the world's biggest database of video,
helping it figure out better ways to search that kind of material.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-17-2007)
Stanley to Drive for Google
[Technology developed by the Stanford Racing Team for a self-driving car
named Stanley could help Google create photo-realistic 3-D representations
of urban areas. Google Earth could eventually become a virtual environment
used for shopping, telecommuting and online games.]
(AI Magazine, SiliconValley.com, 5-19-2007)
Google shows off new office building in Ann Arbor
[The facility is a sales center for Google's AdWords program, which allows
advertisers to create keyword-based ads that display alongside online search
results. The office eventually will employ as many as 1,000 people]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 5-17-2007)
Google retools search engine [Google unveiled a new master search engine
at the company's Mountain View headquarters. In addition to pointing people
to Web sites, Google will now steer them to digital books, movies, images,
news articles and maps that could contain the answers they are looking for.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-17-2007)
Google co-founder's wedding so secret, guests didn't know locale
[Google co-founder Sergey Brin and longtime sweetheart Anne Wojcicki, a biotech
entrepreneur, exchanged vows recently in the Bahamas, in a ceremony so hush-hush
that word didn't leak out for more than a week. Date was from May 4 to May 6.]
(By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, 5-17-2007)
Shareholders happy at Google [More than 200 Google shareholders
turned the company's annual meeting into a love fest, praising company
executives for their stewardship of the world's most popular search engine.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-11-2007)
Thailand drops plan to sue Google over video clips offensive to king
[The Thai government blocked access to YouTube - a popular video-sharing
site owned by Google - on April 4, after Google Inc. turned down Thailand's
request to remove the clips seen as offensive to King Bhumibol Adulyadej.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 5-11-2007)
CEO Schmidt says Google trying to expand China market share
[Google has 22% of China's search market, well behind industry leader
Baidu.com Inc., which has 55%, according to iResearch Inc.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-27-2007)
Google keeps up strong growth
[Google's first-quarter net profits rising 69% and revenues swelling 63%
to $3.66 billion. Google was trading around $480 in after-hours trading,
up more than 2 percent after release of the earnings report.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 4-13-2007)
Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
[The deal would pair the Web's most popular search engine, and leader
in text-ads, with one of the leading distributors of online display
advertising, Hellman & Friedman, which owns DoubleClick.]
(By Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News, 4-13-2007)
Google plans to open operations center in Poland
[Google said it will open the "center of innovation" in Wroclaw
in the coming months and begin hiring 200 workers immediately.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-12-2007)
Google maps Darfur genocide
[Google Earth - with 200 million users - has joined with the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to focus its high-tech lens
and high-powered search on the atrocities in Darfur.]
(By Frank Davies, MediaNews Washington Bureau, 4-11-2007)
Google, Agence France-Presse settle suit with licensing deal
[The deal allows Google to use headlines & photos on Google News and
other services that drive online traffic to sites displaying AFP news.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-6-2007)
Google trio's salaries: $1 each
[The trio of billionaires who run Google collected less than $600,000
in combined compensation last year while they raked in big jackpots
by selling some of their holdings. Brin sold 1.99 million shares for
a total of $788 million last year while Page pocketed $666 million
by selling 1.72 million shares. Schmidt cashed out 1.39 million
shares during 2006 for a total $580 million.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-5-2007)
Google providing new tools for maps
[Google will provide free tools designed to make it easy for people to share
their knowledge about their neighborhoods and other favorite places by creating
customized maps that can assemble information from a variety of sources.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-5-2007)
'Cheating' the search engines [Type "miserable failure" and the
official George Bush White House site shows up as top of search result.
Google decided to tweak its search algorithm to spot link bombs,
and the miserable failure dropped away. On other search engines,
such as Ask, it remains high. "Tony Blair" was top search for "Liar".]
(By Spencer Kelly, BBC News, 4-5-2007)
What to do when a snake is missing at Google? Search, of course!
[An employee's python went missing over the weekend in Google's sprawling
Manhattan office, sending search teams on an all-out snake hunt. Searchers
scoured the complex for the 3-foot-long snake and finally found the serpent,
known as Kaiser, on Monday night "relaxing behind a cabinet."]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-4-2007)
Google to sell ads for Dish Network
[EchoStar Communications, operates the Dish Network service, which has more
than 13 million customers nationwide, making it the second-largest satellite-TV
provider after DirecTV. Google is setting up an online system to allow advertisers
to buy time slots and track viewership of ads served to Dish Network customers.]
(By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 4-3-2007)
LG to add Google functions to mobile phones
[South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. said it plans to start shipping globally
select handsets with Google products and services including Google Maps,
Blogger Mobile and Gmail during the second quarter of this year.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-27-2007)
Insiders: Google stock enriches VC Doerr
[Since Google held its initial public offering of stock in 2004,
Doerr, who sits on the board of directors, has sold 1.1 million
shares to collect $423.2 million.]
(By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, 3-26-2007)
Federal judge dismisses suit attacking Google's search rankings
[A lawsuit by Kinderstart.com was dismissed alleging that Google
abused its position as the Internet's leading search engine
by wrongfully banishing dozens of Web sites from its index.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-23-2007)
Google offers new way to buy Internet ads
[Instead of paying for each click, a small group of advertisers will
experiment with paying each time a person takes a specific action
on their Web site, such as filling out a form or buying a product.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-21-2007)
Google adds more pizzaz to Web site with decorative themes
[Sprucing up its famously plain Web site, Google Inc. is offering
a new option that plants its Internet search box in panoramic
settings that change with the time of day and the outside weather.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-19-2007)
Viacom vs. Google: Test of key online law
[The copyright lawsuit filed Tuesday by Viacom against Google and
its YouTube subsidiary could end up rewriting one of the key laws
of the Internet age: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-14-2007)
Microsoft criticizes Google's use of books
[Google and Microsoft are both scanning libraries' worth of books, then
making the tomes searchable on the Web, but the two companies take different
approaches. Microsoft is scanning works no longer covered by copyright law,
plus newer titles publishers give Microsoft explicit permission to use.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-7-2007)
Google wins key ruling in patent dispute over Earth software
[U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock in Massachusetts decided
that Google Earth doesn't infringe on a patent issued to
Skyline Software Systems Inc. in 2002.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-7-2007)
Google CEO: Old and new media remain divided over online video
[Eric Schmidt said the Internet giant continues to pursue deals that will
let it show copyrighted videos on YouTube, but suggested old and new media
remain far apart in how they view the emerging business of online video.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-6-2007)
Report: Google to open R&D center in Singapore
[Google Inc. plans to open a research and development
center in Singapore, its first in Southeast Asia.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-27-2007)
Google picks up in-game ad firm [Google has acquired San Francisco
in-game advertising company AdScape Media, paying $23 million for the
year-old start-up. The potential deal could fuel speculation that
Google is building a virtual world game, much like Linden Labs'
Second Life, using its Google Earth product as a backbone.]
(By Ryan Blitstein and Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, 2-17-2007)
Users debate meaning of Google Valentine logo
[For nearly a year, Google employees aided a Missouri-based company
that provided software and tech support to people who downloaded
pirated software and movies. Sample and Drury shut down their business
in October 2005 after they were sued by the studios. In total, the men
estimated, they sold more than 30,000 memberships and took in about
$1.1 million, virtually all, they said, from Google searches.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 2-15-2007)
Google widens doors to Gmail [Google's free e-mail service
will shed the final remnants of its invitation-only restrictions,
extending the reach of an increasingly popular product that has emerged
as a vital cog in the online search leader's expansion efforts.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-14-2007)
Local officials defend Google incentives deal
[Some observers have criticized the $260 million in incentives
used to lure Google, Inc. to Caldwell County. But on Tuesday,
local leaders said most in their communities support the deal.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-14-2007)
Princeton joins Google's book-scanning project
[About 1 million books in Princeton University's collection will be
made available online through Google Inc.'s book-scanning project.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-5-2007)
Galloping Google nearly triples Q4 earnings
[Google stock price dipped after announcing it earned $1.03 billion,
or $3.29 per share, during the final three months of 2006, compared
with net income of $372.2 million, or $1.22 per share in 2005.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-31-2007)
Google plans data center in N.C. worth up to $600 million
[Google plans to build in Lenoir, a city of 60,000 about 60 miles
northwest of Charlotte. The average annual salary at the data center
is expected to be $48,300, about $20,000 more than the average salary
in Caldwell County. The "server farm" could eventually employ 210 people
in a region hit hard by layoffs in the furniture & textile industries.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-19-2007)
Best place to work: Google [Fortune Magazine Knocks Genetech to No. 2]
[Working for Google has famously proved an enriching experience for many,
given its rising stock value. But the 10th annual rankings are based on
a combination of factors: two-thirds weight is given to responses on a
57-question survey of 400 randomly selected employees at each company by
Great Place To Work Institute, a San Francisco research & consulting group]
(By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, 1-8-2007)
Amazon pushes an answer service after Google drops out
[Amazon is trying to beef up its user-driven research site, just weeks
after Google abandoned its 4-year-old effort. Like leader Yahoo Answers,
Amazon's Askville is free, and participants can earn points based on
the quality of answers they provide.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-3-2007)
Google, Apple, Yahoo boost valley market in real estate
[In 2006, Google gobbled up yet another portion of land and buildings
in Mountain View's Shoreline Technology Park for $319 million; Apple
announced plans to buy 50 acres in Cupertino for more than $160 million;
and Yahoo bought 46 acres in Santa Clara for about $50 million.]
(By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, 1-2-2007)
Google to let employees sell options [Starting next spring,
Googlers who have vested options will be able to sell them
through an online site to institutional investors.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 11-28-2006)
Google to abandon answer service in a win for Yahoo
[Google doesn't have all the answers— a fact underscored by the Internet
search leader's decision to abandon a 4-year-old service that hired researchers
to field questions on everything from school homework to sports trivia.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-29-2006)
Google Checkout rings up gripes [Problems beset payment service.
As Google launches a major campaign to pay holiday shoppers to use its
online payment service, Google Checkout users are warning: "Buyer beware."]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 11-28-2006)
Google reserves $200 million from YouTube deal for copyright issues
[Google has set aside more than $200 million in its just-completed takeover
of YouTube Inc. as a financial cushion to cover losses or possible legal bills
for the frequent copyright violations on YouTube's video-sharing site.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-14-2006)
Google, Yahoo ask SEC to review higher fees for market data
[Google, Yahoo, and other Internet companies are asking the SEC
to review fees that U.S. stock exchanges charge for market data,
challenging a major source of income at the exchanges.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-13-2006)
Google buys wiki maker [Google acquires JotSpot, a Palo Alto
company that makes Web-site pages called wikis. The purchase is
further evidence of one of the Internet search giant's emerging
strategies: helping people share information and media online.]
(By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 11-1-2006)
Amazon won't give book-search details to Google
[Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book
search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it needs them to fight copyright
infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-24-2006)
Google unveils tools for search engines
[Hoping to leave an even bigger imprint on the Internet,
Google Inc. is opening up its vast online index so other
Web sites can build their own specialty search engines.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 10-23-2006)
Google profits sky high [Google's 3rd-quarter profits nearly doubled
as revenues rose 70%, powered by a continued surge in online advertising.
This contrasted with the downbeat performance of Yahoo, Google's
chief rival in Internet advertising, whose profits had declined 38%]
(By Elise Ackerman and Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 10-20-2006)
Google stock climbs to 9-month high after Q3 blowout
[Shares climbed as high as $460.10 before falling back to close at $459.67,
an increase of $33.61, or 7.9%. The run-up created more than $10 billion
in shareholder wealth and left Google's market value at $143 billion after
8 years in business. By comparison, 67-year-old Hewlett-Packard Co.—
the world's largest technology company— has a market value of $108 billion.
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-20-2006)
Search sovereign's newest beta: Google Offshore Bank Account
[Start the steroid investigation; Google's knocked the cover off
the ball again. After market close Thursday, the company reported another
blowout quarter posting profits that nearly doubled from a year ago.]
(Posted by John Paczkowski, SiliconValley.com, 10-20-2006)
Google's Q3 profit nearly doubles, soars past estimates
[Google earned $733.4 million, or $2.36 per share, for the 3 months
ended in September. That compared with net income of $381.2 million,
or $1.32 per share, at the same time last year. Revenue for the period
totaled $2.69 billion, a 70% increase from $1.58 billion last year.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-19-2006)
Google, YouTube celebrate deal with a round of Coke and Mentos
[The happiest people in the deal aside from Hurley and Chen are
the folks at Sequoia Capital, the VC outfit that backed them and
and is looking at better than a 40x return on a year-old investment.]
(Posted by John Murrell, SiliconValley.com, 10-10-2006)
Google eclipses rivals once again with YouTube acquisition
[Google's lightning-quick acquisition of online video pioneer YouTube
once again demonstrated the Internet search leader's penchant for pouncing
on golden opportunities that leave its rivals scrambling to catch up.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-10-2006)
Copyright key to Google-YouTube deal [Google's deal to buy YouTube
for $1.65 billion, is an enormous bet on the future of the online video
revolution and a gamble that the search engine giant can solve one
of the trickiest aspects of media on the Web: copyright issues.]
(By Elise Ackerman and Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2006)
YouTube: another valley garage-to-riches story [Monday's purchase of YouTube
turns the popular video-sharing site's two co-founders, Chad Hurley, 29, and
Steve Chen, 27, into the latest Silicon Valley superstars, and both stand
to realize tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from the deal.]
(By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2006)
Report: Google near deal for YouTube [The rumored $1.65 billion
marriage between tech giant Google and video-sharing upstart YouTube
might be announced as early as today.]
(By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2006)
Google plans to set up R&D center in South Korea ["Now we will have the
chances to experience and learn Google's advanced technology. and know-how," said
Commerce Minister Chung Sye-kyun. "We hope Korea will become a global R&D hub."]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-9-2006)
Google continues to plumb new advertising opportunities [Google has accelerated
its efforts to sell advertising for magazines and newspapers while continuing to gear
up for potentially lucrative opportunities in broadcasting and mobile devices.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 10-9-2006)
Go to UC for free, on Google Video [In a new deal with Google Video,
the University of California-Berkeley is sharing with the public, via the
Internet, dozens of videotaped seminars, speeches, special events and even
entire courses taught by some of the campus' leading professors.]
(By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, 9-28-2006)
Google appeals Brazil judge's order rather than turn over data
[Google Inc. appealed on Thursday a federal judge's order to turn over
information on users of the company's Orkut social-networking service.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-28-2006)
Google to publishers: Don't bite the hand that feeds you
[Google blog by David Eun, VP for content partnerships, says Google is guided
by three principles when it comes to content: "1. We respect copyright;
2. We let owners choose whether we index their content in our products;
3. We try to bring benefit back to content owners by partnering with them."]
(Blogpost by John Murrell, SiliconValley.com, 9-27-2006)
Google gives Belgian sites temporary exemption from minimalist design standard
[Google finally complied with an order to post on its Belgian home and news
pages the full text of a ruling barring its use of content from the country's
French- and German-language newspapers.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-25-2006)
Belgian court rejects Google's appeal against publishing judgment
[Google lost an appeal Friday of a Belgian court's requirement that the Internet
search company publish on its home page the ruling in a recent case it lost.]
(By AOIFE WHITE, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 9-22-2006)
Belgian court rules in favor of newspapers in case against Google
[A Belgian court has ordered Google Inc. to stop publishing content from Belgian
newspapers without permission or payment of fees, a Belgian press association said.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-18-2006)
Valleywide WiFi would keep area on cutting edge, but project faces hurdles
[Wireless Silicon Valley (WSV) picked Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a team created
by IBM, Cisco Systems, a small wireless operator named Azulstar and a non-profit
named SeaKay. MetroFi, a Mountain View start-up, is already offering free muni WiFi
in Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and downtown San Jose. Google turned on a free
WiFi network covering Mountain View in August. EarthLink has announced plans for a
network in Milpitas, and is also building a WiFi network with Google in San Francisco.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 9-11-2006)
Factoring in the Human Element [How can a search engine beat Google?
[Microsoft & Yahoo have one approach: Invest hundreds of millions of dollars
in computer technology and collect personal data by the terabyte. Scott Jones
has another: Tap into the genius of the slacker underground. Jones launched
the search engine ChaCha early this week. It was quickly overwhelmed.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 9-7-2006)
Google broadens news archive [Starting Tuesday at 9 p.m. PDT, articles published
by news organizations, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time
and the Washington Post, will be available in the archive of Google News.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 9-6-2006)
Tool generates fake searches for privacy [TrackMeNot periodically sends fake,
innocuous queries to search engines, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN, and AOL.
This makes it harder for someone to glean your actual search habits by
reviewing the companies' logs that contain your queries.]
(By ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 9-1-2006)
Executive: Google growth driven by users
[Producers have looked with particular alarm at the rapid rise of user-generated
video. Stunts, spoofs and other clips posted on video-sharing sites like YouTube Inc.
or Google Video can attract millions of viewers who might otherwise be watching TV.]
(By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-30-2006)
Google, eBay forge alliance [eBay announced it would grant Google
exclusive rights to sell text-based ads on eBay's non-U.S. Web sites.
The multiyear advertising agreement would also include an experiment
in "click-to-call" advertising using Google Talk and eBay's Skype.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-29-2006)
Google to allow free downloads of books
[Google plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge
classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-29-2006)
Google CEO to join Apple Computer board
[Apple Computer named Google's CEO Eric Schmidt to its board of directors,
creating a high-profile link between two of Silicon Valley's most prized
companies as they try to topple Microsoft as high technology's kingpin.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 8-29-2006)
Google, eBay try to crack service market [Google and eBay announced
an advertising partnership that aims to put buyers in touch with a wider variety
of sellers, such as the neighborhood exterminator, math tutor or roofer.]
(By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press, 8-28-2006)
Google announces hosted apps [Workers will be able to send e-mail
with Gmail, Google's two-year-old Web-based mail service, but messages
will carry their company's domain name. The package also includes Google's
online calendar, instant-messaging service, and Page Creator, a Web page builder.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-27-2006)
Google seeks regulatory exemption for cash hoard [Search-engine giant Google Inc.
has piled up so much cash that it is in danger of being mistaken for an investment fund.
Google wants to diversify its investment strategy but doesn't want to be regulated
as a mutual fund. It has asked the SEC to exempt it from regulations that can apply
to a company with a lot of marketable securities on its balance sheet.]
(SiliconValley.com, 8-25-2006)
Google launches free WiFi in Mountain View [After months of beta testing
and anticipation, the Internet giant plans to open up its free, wireless
Internet network to Mountain View's 72,000 residents. The network covers
about 90% of the city's 12 square miles and offers maximum data-transfer
speeds of up to 1 megabit per second— slightly slower than DSL.]
(By Sarah Jane Tribble, San Jose Mercury News, 8-16-2006)
Google's home town to get Web access free
[Powered by 380 radio antennae, the Mountain View network is supposed to surf the Web
at speeds comparable to the Internet connections delivered by digital subscriber,
or DSL lines. It will be slightly slower than a high-speed cable connection.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 8-15-2006)
Google offers local coupons [Google has a deal to distribute online coupons
sold by Valpak, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises and one of the top providers
of direct-mail advertising services in the United States. Customers can print
out the coupons at home and then redeem them at a local business.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-15-2006)
Google removes text link to Froogle
[Google removed a text link to its comparison-shopping site, Froogle,
and replaced it with one pointing to Google Video, where amateur spoofs
uploaded by users mingle with episodes of Dave Chappelle's show.]
(By JESSICA MINTZ, Associated Press, 8-14-2006)
Google's gift [Google is about to give its hometown a wonderful gift:
a municipal wireless network covering the entire city of Mountain View,
with free Internet access for both residents and visitors. But Google will not
provide live human tech support, which is often crucial for first-time users.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-14-2006)
Google to keep storing search requests
[Google keeps its users' search requests as part of its efforts to better understand
what specific people are looking for on the Internet. But by storing the search requests,
Google and its competitors are creating an opportunity for the material to be mistakenly
released or stolen, according to privacy advocates.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 8-11-2006)
Disclosure fight over Google jet settled
[Google's famous co-founders have decided not to press the accusation that an
Oklahoma aircraft designer violated a court order for allegedly disclosing details
about a Boeing 767 that he was refurbishing on their behalf to newspaper reporters.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 8-11-2006)
UC books on Google: a global resource [A proposed deal between Google
and the University of California to convert library books into searchable
online files could turn UC's 34 million volumes into a global resource.]
(By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, 8-4-2006)
Google piles on profits [Google more than doubled its quarterly profit
thanks to a continued outpouring of online advertising that boosted revenue
77% from a year ago. 99% of Google's revenue came from online advertising.
In comparison, Yahoo reported advertising revenue of $1.38 billion, up 27%.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 7-21-2006)
Google, Yahoo bolster sites for photo sharing
[Google launched Web Albums, an updated version of its Picasa photo-sharing software
the company acquired in 2004. For now, Web Albums is offered on an invitation-only
basis while the Mountain View search engine giant works out any potential kinks.
Yahoo is giving one of its two photo-sharing sites, Yahoo Photos, a face lift, too.]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 6-15-2006)
Google to buy its headquarters for $319 million
[Google Inc. is buying its Silicon Valley headquarters for $319 million
in a deal covering the Internet search leader's nerve center—
a cluster of buildings revered in high-tech circles as the "Googleplex."]
(SiliconValley.com, 6-14-2006)
Google upgrades mapping tools
[Google released the latest upgrades
to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest successes outside
the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traffic.
The improvements include a major expansion of the satellite imagery
included in Google's three-dimensional software for touring Earth.]
(SiliconValley.com, 6-13-2006)
Google to take on eBay [Google is expected to roll out an online payment
system at the end of the month that will directly compete with eBay's PayPal.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 6-10-2006)
Brin says Google compromised principles
[Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant Internet company has
compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said
Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.]
(TED BRIDIS, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 6-6-2006)
Google to launch online spreadsheet [Google Spreadsheets, a free program
that requires no downloads and allows people to share or work on the same
document online, won't offer all of the bells and whistles that Microsoft's
Excel program offers. People will be able to open Excel documents (.xls)
and Comma-Separated files (.csv) with the program.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 6-6-2006)
Google Meets Obstacles in Ad-Supported Wi-Fi Business
[Google won a contract to build San Francisco1s citywide network, in partnership with
EarthLink, but bureaucracy & regulatory issues are slowing down the project considerably.]
(Telecommunications Industry News, Canada, 5-27-2006)
Google to bundle software on Dell PCs
[The partnership means millions of Dell computers will leave the factories with
Google software already installed, an advantage that could widen the usage of the
products and provide another boost to Google's already rapidly growing profits.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 5-26-2006)
Yahoo, eBay team up in deal that takes aim at chief rivals
[Coupled with Google Inc.'s recent $1 billion investment in Time Warner Inc.'s AOL,
the Yahoo-eBay partnership also figures to intensify the pressure on Microsoft to
find an ally as it tries to become a more formidable player in Internet advertising.]
(By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press, 5-25-2006)
Google 'business founder' No. 1 [$289 million, plus stock option gains]
[Sometime after Google went public in August 2004, sales chief Omid Kordestani shared
his thoughts on the essentials for success with a group of Silicon Valley businesswomen.
He said, "Stay positive. Smile. Move forward— don't stay where you're at... Be open
to learning." Finally, he added, "Measure everything." What was Kordestani's 2 cents worth?
If it is measured by his compensation at Google last year: $289 million.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-21-2006)
Chinese cell firm talks with Google about mobile search engine
[China Mobile Ltd., China's largest cell-phone carrier by subscribers, is in talks
with Google to launch an Internet search engine for mobile services in China.]
(SiliconValley.com, 5-19-2006)
Nokia to add Google Talk to tablet device
[Finland-based Nokia announced that an upgraded version of its Internet Tablet
device will come ready loaded with Google Inc.'s Talk service, which enables
users to have voice conversations and exchange instant messages]
(SiliconValley.com, 5-12-2006)
Why Google hasn't split stock
[Google co-founder Sergey Brin told investors Thursday that Google
hasn't split its $387 stock into cheaper chunks because executives
want prospective buyers to have "thought it through."]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-12-2006)
Google opens up with new features
[What Google isn't trying to do is be the next Microsoft or eBay,
said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. What Google is doing, executives said,
is solving new problems in new ways, while maintaining supremacy in search.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-11-2006)
Google stands up for poultry rights
[Google officials plan to announce their employee cafeterias will
no longer serve eggs that come from hens crammed into small cages.]
(By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, 5-11-2006)
Google Watch: Partner City for Google Wi-Fi
[Seth Fearey and his colleagues at a joint venture to build a huge wireless Internet
network recently learned that Google wasn't going to participate. "Google doesn't know
anything about repairing 'buckets', or truck rolls, S? Nor do they have the staff to
operate and manage a network like this," Fearey said. "They have some terrific people,
but they would need feet on the ground in a lot of places, and they don't have that."]
(By Ben Charny, eWeek.com, Weblog, 5-5-2006)
EBay CEO wary of Google: Search Engine giant moving into online seller's markets
[Signs that Google may try to become a force in eBay's e-commerce and online payment
businesses, coupled with investor concern over slow growth and stiff competition in
markets like China and South Korea, has driven down eBay's stock almost 30% this year.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-5-2006)
Microsoft invades Google's turf [Microsoft will try again today
when it launches AdCenter, an online advertising platform it has been testing
for the past seven months. AdCenter will provide advertisers with tools and
targeting capabilities that are similar to what is offered by Google.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-4-2006)
Google raises concerns about new Microsoft browser
[Google Inc. is hoping to pressure Microsoft Corp. into changing a new
Internet Explorer browser feature that could direct more people to Microsoft's
online search engine instead of Google's far more popular offering.]
(SiliconValley.com, 5-1-2006)
* Friend or foe?: EBay's Changing Relationship with Google
[In November, Google began offering to host any sort of information that
anyone wanted to upload to Google Base. People quickly began to post ads
to sell everything from Beanie Babies to diamond rings. Unlike eBay,
where sellers pay to list each item, Google Base was free.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 5-1-2006)
Google Wi-Fi Deal Gains Powerful Critics
[San Francisco politicians and the ACLU ask the city to rethink its Wi-Fi deal
with Google and Earthlink. The two companies would offer free but ad-supported
Internet access, plus a $20-per-month plan that is faster, and ad-free.]
(By Ben Charny, PC Magazine, 4-27-2006)
Google rivals plan Enemy of My Enemy Conference
[eBay has been discussing potential partnerships with Yahoo and Microsoft
in response to Googles encroachment in everything from classified-advertising
services to Voice over IP. Julie Meyer: "Google is undertaking the biggest
landgrab the world has ever seen... It probably would take a coalition
of major players, a kind of super-union, to stop it.]
(Blog By Paczkowski, SiliconValley.com, 4-21-2006)
Google shares flying high again after stellar quarter
[Wall Street celebrated by driving up Google's shares by as much $35.72
Friday, prompting some analysts to predict it won't be long before the
company's stock price surpasses $500 for the first time.]
(SiliconValley.com, 4-21-2006)
Google dazzles Wall Street
[Google posted a 79% increase in revenue and a 60% increase in profit for the first
quarter on Thursday, stunning Wall Street and quelling fears that its advertising
business had begun to slow. share price soaring 8 percent in after-hours trading.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 4-21-2006)
Logo art so surreal artist's family upset
[Google wanted to honor Miro, the famous painter's birthday (April 20, 1893),
and reworked the Google logo to look like some of the artist's work. But it
looked so surreal that Joan Miro's family asked Google to remove it.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 4-21-2006)
Google earnings blow past estimates [Google's first-quarter profit rose 60%.
Quarterly revenue surpassed $2 billion for the first time in Google's 7.5 year history,
reaching $2.25 billion -- a 79 percent increase from $1.26 billion last year.
Google ended March with a 42.7% share of the U.S. search engine market, up from 36.4%
at the same time last year, according to comScore Media Metrix. Yahoo's market share
fell to 28% from 30.6% last year, while Microsoft's dropped to 13.2% from 16.5%.]
(SiliconValley.com, 4-20-2006)
Artist's family asks Google to take down today's `painted' logo
[The family of Joan Miro was upset to discover elements of several works by the Spanish
surrealist incorporated into Google's logo. Google has since taken the logo off its site.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 4-20-2006)
Langberg: Click fraud looms over Google, Yahoo
[Silicon Valley's twin titans of the Internet era get almost all their
revenues from pay-per-click advertising. But advertisers pay only when
someone is interested enough to click on their links.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 4-17-2006)
Growing pains: Google shareholder stage small revolt
[A pension fund that owns 4,735 Google shares, out of a total of 297 million,
filed a proposal Wednesday asking the Mountain View company to dismantle its
two-class stock structure. That arrangement gives co-founders Sergey Brin
and Larry Page and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt control of Google.]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 4-13-2006)
Google launches new calendar service
[Google is unveiling a calendar service, http://www.google.com/calendar, that allows users
to store appointments online, receive reminders about them & share those plans with others.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 4-13-2006)
'Chinese Google' had stellar IPO, then a long slide
[Baidu.com went public at $27 a share, climbed to $122.54 its first day
of trading on Aug. 5, 2005. On Friday 4/7/06, the shares closed at $57.40]
(By Ellen Simon, SiliconValley.com, 4-7-2006)
Google execs refuse pay
[Since the company's IPO in August 2004, Schmidt has sold stock worth $549 million,
Page has sold nearly $2.2 billion and Brin has sold more than $1.8 billion.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 4-3-2006)
Google selling 5.3 million more shares
[Two days before Google was scheduled to join the S&P 500 Index,
it planned to offer 5.3 million shares for sale to help meet the
needs of fund managers who will be obligated to buy the stock.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-30-2006)
Google expands America Online alliance
[Google to invest $1 billion in its biggest advertising partner.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-29-2006)
Google plans to sell another 5.3 million shares
[Hopes to raise more than $2 billion in stocks sale to finance
its expansion plans and pay for possible acquisitions.]
(SiliconValley.com, 3-29-2006)
Google shares surge 7% after selection to S&P 500
[Google's shares soared $23.91 to close at $365.80 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 3-24-2006)
Stanford still the golden goose of valley tech
[How do you build the next Yahoo or Google? Perhaps the best way is to
get admitted to the graduate program at Stanford University's department
of computer science, or be invited to join the department's faculty.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 3-22-2006)
Google Finance makes its debut
[Google's site, http://finance.google.com, provides stock charts, news and
chat rooms, much like Yahoo Finance, the most popular finance site on the Web.]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 3-21-2006)
Larry Page's brother Carl Page uses tactic with tainted history
[Carl Page became an Internet success story before his younger brother,
billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page. Carl's Handheld Entertainment raised
$7.6 million by going public through a reverse merger earlier this month.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 3-20-2006)
Web site sues Google over drop in rank
[Plunge in page views and ad revenue 'cataclysmic' says Kinderstart.com]
(By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, 3-18-2006)
Lawsuit alleges Google improperly banishes Web sites
[KinderStart, a Norwalk-based Web site devoted to information about children,
says it was dropped from Google's index a year ago without warning.]
(SiliconValley.com, 3-17-2006)
Google ruling points to need for protecting consumer data
[If Web companies want to earn the trust of their customers, they must do far
more to guarantee the privacy & security of the data they collect from users.]
(Editorial, San Jose Mercury News, 3-16-2006)
Google vs. government: Major dispute defused
[Federal judge said he intends to require Google to hand over only a slice of
its closely guarded Web data— 50,000 Web sites and 5,000 Web searches]
(By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, 3-15-2006)
Google to put books online
[Google is expanding its role in the publishing world from a search engine
for books to a distributor making entire books available to read online.]
(By Jessie Seyfer, San Jose Mercury News, 3-14-2006)
Google launches interactive map of Mars
[First there was Google Earth, then Google Moon. Google expanded its galactic
reach by launching Google Mars, a Web browser-based mapping tool that gives users
an up-close, interactive view of the Red Planet with the click of a mouse.]
(By Alicia Chang, San Jose Mercury News, 3-14-2006)
Judge to order Google to turn over records
[U.S. District Judge James Ware told the Justice Department it can expect to get at
least some of the information sought from Google as part of the Bush administration's
effort to revive a law meant to shield children from online pornography.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 3-14-2006)
Keeping you in the Big 3 playgrounds
[Google, Microsoft and Yahoo no longer aim to confine you in a "walled garden"—
the online equivalent of a gated community where you only use the owner's services.
Instead, they are now pursuing a more subtle approach— "personal playground."]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 3-13-2006)
Google edges onto Microsoft turf
[Google has bought Upstartle, a small, private Portola Valley company that
makes Web-based word processing software, as it begins to flesh out its plan
to move more traditional computing tasks onto the Internet.]
(By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, San Jose Mercury News, 3-10-2006)
Google's recent gaffes exasperate analysts
[Google's stock price tumbled by nearly 3% Wednesday as exasperated analysts scolded
the company for a series of events that has confounded investors. Google's shares fell
$10.57, or 2.9%, to close at $353.88. It has fallen 26% from its Jan. 11 high of $475.11]
(By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, San Jose Mercury News, 3-9-2006)
Google to pay $90M in 'click fraud' case
[Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging
the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid
for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud."]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 3-9-2006)
Google looking to provide 'infinite' storage to computer users
[Plans for a Google service offering "infinite" storage capacity leaked
out last week when the company inadvertently shared some information
about several projects, including one named "GDrive," on its Web site.]
(SiliconValley.com, 3-8-2006)
Google subpoenaed by airline
[American Airlines wants Google to reveal the identity of a person who
the airline says posted a copyrighted video on Google's video Web site.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-8-2006)
Google puts cat back in the bag
[Google accidentally released internal financial projections on its Web site last Thursday.
The posting also warned that strong competition was squeezing margins on advertising
posted on the Web sites of Google partners— a program known as AdSense.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-8-2006)
Google says it mistakenly released growth projections on Web site
[The notes said the business was "projected to grow from $6 billion
this year to $9.5 billion next year based purely on trends in traffic
and monetization growth." It also pointed out that strong competition
was squeezing margins for its AdSense syndication network.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-7-2006)
Google investors deserve facts, not sarcasm
[Google's valuation is $111.2 billion at 3/2/06 closing price of
$376.45 a share. Google's revenue in 2005 stood at $6.1 billion.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 3-3-2006)
Google CEO issues upbeat report
[Following the release of CEO Schmidt's remarks to placate investors,
Google stock rose 4.5% Thursday to $378.25 at 11:19 a.m.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 3-2-2006)
Google discussing ethics code for dealing overseas
[Google's research chief said the search giant and other technology firms with
Chinese operations are discussing a code of principles to address censorship
and protection of people's privacy in repressive countries.]
(By K. Oanh Ha, San Jose Mercury News, 3-1-2006)
Google's stock punished after warning of slower growth
[A warning by Google's CFO Reves that its growth was slowing triggered a sharp
sell-off this morning, with shares falling nearly 14%, before ending at -7%]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 2-28-2006)
Closing bell: Google growth warning, economic reports sink Nasdaq
[Nasdaq composite index fell 25.79, or 1.1%, to 2,281.39, hurt by a 7.1% decline
in Google's shares, which tumbled $27.76 to $362.62 after CFO's comment on growth.]
(San Jose Mercury News Wire Services, 2-28-2006)
Google says tech companies discussing China strategy
[Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, provided some insight into the internal
debates within the company over its decision to comply with Chinese censorship laws.]
(By K. Oanh Ha, San Jose Mercury News, 2-28-2006)
Google loses in court over nude photo links
[A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled that Google's image search violates an
adult Web site's copyrights by displaying "thumbnail"versions of its photos.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 2-22-2006)
Google, EarthLink submit S.F. WiFi plan
[Google & EarthLink have teamed up to create a city-wide wireless Internet network
for San Francisco. EarthLink's Philadelphia network will cost at least $9 a month.]
(By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, 2-22-2006)
Google hires web pioneer Larry Brilliant
[Larry Brilliant, online pioneer (Well founder) & veteran philanthropist to run a charitable
foundation that's trying to fulfill Google's promise to make the world a better place.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-22-2006)
Google denies report on China operation
[Google denied that its Chinese-language search engine, which has been criticized for blocking
searches for politically sensitive material, is operating without a required government license.]
(By Joe McDonald, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 2-21-2006)
Google dissects U.S. claim
[Google called the Bush administration's request for data on Web searches "so uninformed
as to be nonsensical" in papers filed in San Jose federal court Friday, arguing that turning
over the information would expose its trade secrets and violate the privacy of its users.]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 2-18-2006)
Google launches China blog a day before China hearing
["The Google China blog is a platform for Google to share information about
our products and culture with Chinese users. It is also a useful reference
for candidates interested in working for Google at the China R&D center."]
(By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, 2-18-2006)
Google criticizes gov't in court papers
[Google criticized the Bush administration's demand to examine millions of its
users' Internet search requests as a misguided fishing expedition that threatens
to ruin the company's credibility and reveal its closely guarded secrets.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 2-17-2006)
Congress chides 4 tech giants over China
[House members contended that Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Cisco Systems Inc.
and Google Inc. were collaborators with the Chinese government in suppressing
dissent in return for access to a booming Internet market.]
(By Foster Klug, Associated Press, 2-15-2006)
Google looks to expand its presence in print ads
[Advertisers in its popular online ad network— known as AdWords— can now bid
for full-page, half-page or quarter-page ad placements in the publications.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 2-10-2006)
Google's new search feature seeks greater access to personal computers
[The ability to search a computer remotely is included in Google's latest upgrade
to its software that scours hard drives for documents, e-mails, & instant messages.]
(SiliconValley.com, 2-9-2006)
Google offers transfer tool for computers
[Google's new tool will automatically transfer information from one
personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must
authorize Google to store the material for up to 30 days.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 2-9-2006)
Google battles broadband provider fee
[AT&T & BellSouth have suggested charging Internet services such as Google, Yahoo,
and Vonage Holdings Corp. for the high-quality delivery of their content over the
phone companies' networks. The phone companies say they're investing billions of
dollars upgrading their broadband networks and should be able to recoup that cost.]
(By Jennier C. Kerr, Associated Press, 2-8-2006)
A bundle of a deal with Dell: Google software to be pre-loaded on Dell PCs
[Google may not be a personal computer company— or have ambitions to
become one— but getting onto your desktop is key to its business strategy.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 2-8-2006)
Google is first to merge e-mail, IM
[Google is breaking down the barrier between e-mail and instant messaging, combining
its Gmail and Google Talk services to create a central messaging hub, an industry first.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 2-7-2006)
Google, cos. clash over Internet access
[Google said that the wide variety of Web sites might shrink if broadband providers
like AT&T start charging companies for premium access to high-speed networks.]
(By Jennier C. Kerr, Associated Press, 2-7-2006)
Google to unveil new chat feature
[Google to wed its instant messaging & e-mail services in the same Web browser,
hoping the convenience will lure users from the larger communications networks.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 2-6-2006)
Google, Skype in startup to link hotspots
[Google and eBay's Skype are investing in a startup that plans to help hotspot owners
charge for Wi-Fi access, a plan that could face significant opposition from ISPs.]
(By Peter Svensson, Associated Pres, 2-5-2006)
* No regrets for ex-Google exec: Taking off on his own,
he missed the big money but discovered his true passion
[To Alberto Savoia, peace of mind is worth tens of millions of dollars.]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 2-4-2006)
* Start-up hopes to challenge Google: Both search engines have Stanford roots
[Anand Rajaraman & Venky Harinarayan, who knew Google's co-founders while the four studied
at Stanford together, are launching an ambitious new search engine company, Kosmix.]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 2-4-2006)
Google bubbling over with plans for outer space
[Google is expanding its plans for potential collaborations with NASA scientists
at Moffett Field to include research on everything from private commercial rocket
launches to search engines in the classroom to nanotechnology in orbit.]
(By Renee Koury, San Jose Mercury News, 2-2-2006)
Investors get grow-up lesson from Google
[Startled investors pushed Google stock down as much as $65 on Tuesday night
in after-hours trading, but it regained half of its losses on Wednesday.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 2-2-2006)
Google's earnings nearly double, but miss forecasts; stock plunges
[Google's profit fell below analyst expectations for the first time
since its August 2004 IPO. The news rattled previously bullish
investors, causing Google's stock price to plunge by more than 12%.]
(SiliconValley.com, 1-31-2006)
Google profit doesn't impress analysts [Google's profit jumped 82%
in the 4th quarter compared with last year. Net income for the quarter
jumped to $372.2 million, or $1.22 per diluted share. Wall Street analysts
were expecting net profit of between $1.51 to $1.98 a share. CEO Schmidt
predicted especially strong growth in 2006 in the world marketplace.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 1-31-2006)
Hearing set for Feb. 27 in Google-Justice Dept. dispute
[U.S. District Court in San Jose will examine Google's decision to withhold
millions of online search records from the U.S. Department of Justice.]
(SiliconValley.com, 1-27-2006)
Compromise vs. idealism: Welcome to the real world
[Google should change its motto from the overly ambitious "Don't Be Evil"
to the more realistic "Don't Be More Evil Than Necessary."]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 1-25-2006)
Google to censor results in China [Can't search for info on the "three T's":
Taiwan independence, Tibet independence and Tiananmen Square, which are all forbidden
topics in China. And Google is not yet offering its e-mail service, called GMail.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 1-25-2006)
Google suffers biggest percent drop: Stock dips below $400 on record trading volume
[Google Inc. shares fell $36.92, or 8.5%, to $399.46, on trading volume that was
the heaviest since the firm's IPO in August 2004. The drop wiped out about $11 billion
in market value. The stock has dropped about 16% since January 11, when it peaked at $475.
The drop came a day after Google said it would fight a U.S. government request to share
its search data as part of an effort to fight online child pornography.]
(By Scott Banerjee & Dan Gallagher, MarketWatch, 1-20-2006)
Google case raises new questions about U.S. spying
[The Justice Department has not asked for names or computer addresses. But the Google subpoenas
reinforced concerns about how much personal information the government should be entitled to.]
(By Tom Raum, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 1-20-2006)
Google sparks privacy fight: But Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL turned over records Feds sought
["Google's acceding to the request would suggest it is willing to reveal information
about those who use its services. This is not a perception that Google can accept."]
(By Michael Bazeley and Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, 1-20-2006)
Feds after Google data: Records sought in U.S. quest to revive porn law
[Google refused request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all
Google searches from any one-week period. The government contends it needs
the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches.
Google has the largest share of U.S. Web searches with 46%, according to Nov. 2005
figures from Nielsen/NetRatings. Yahoo is second with 23%, and MSN third with 11%.]
(By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, 1-19-2006)
Google casts its net over radio: Company adds radio to stable of offline advertising
[Buys a Newport Beach radio advertising company, dMarc Broadcasting, in a deal
for $102 million up front but which could end up being worth more than $1 billion.]
(By Michael Liedtke, San Jose Mercury News, 1-18-2006)
Google going after Microsoft and Apple
[There's no disputing Google has enough money in the bank and clout
in the marketplace to slowly wear down even the biggest of rivals.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 1-17-2006)
BlackBerry to support Google's mapping and IM programs
[BlackBerry e-mail devices will soon support the Google Talk instant-messaging
and Google Local mapping programs, the handheld maker said Thursday, extending
the Internet titan's push to put its services on mobile devices.]
(SiliconValley.com, 1-12-2006)
European tech giants craft search engine they hope will rival Google
[Quaero is billed as Europe's answer to Google, but it has a lot to live up to.
Quaero which means "to search" in Latin— is just a scattering of top
tech minds in labs across France and Germany, working on what they hope
will be the world's most advanced multimedia search engine.]
(SiliconValley.com, 1-11-2006)
An insider's tale from Google's great chef hunt
[Steve Petusevsky, former national director of creative food development for
Whole Foods Market and author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook
is one of the few still in the running. "What's for dessert? Before leaving Florida,
I had decided to take along one ingredient that the Google chefs had never seen...
I was at Caspian Persian market in Plantation, Fla., where I found saffron sugar,
the inspiration for my dessert. I caramelized the golden saffron sugar and drizzled
it over warm rice pudding before sprinkling in pistachios, fresh pomegranate seeds,
dates and pine nuts. I am happy that is the last taste guests had in their mouths.]
(By Steve Petusevsky, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 1-10-2006)
Google introduces software starter kit
[Google is distributing a suite of programs designed to make it easier
to install and maintain basic applications that have helped turn the PC
into a hub of information, entertainment and communications.]
(By Michael Liedtke, San Jose Mercury News, 1-9-2006)
Google plans to expand video offerings
[Google is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set
their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple's iTunes store.]
(By May Wong, Associated Press, 1-9-2006)
Google maps next moves: Video over the Internet, desktop software bundle
[Page announces availability of Google Pack, a downloadable package of
Google-branded and third-party software, such as a Web browser and a
media player. Google will also distribute video from CBS & the NBA.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 1-6-2006)
Report: Google to announce video partnership deal
[Google Inc. will let consumers buy video over the Internet
from CBS, the NBA and other providers, becoming the latest
company to explore the new method of distributing TV content.]
(SiliconValley.com, 1-5-2006)
The buzz: What's Google up to?: Firm expected to roll out big, new initiative
[Rumor has it that Larry Page will announce a Google PC when he addresses the
Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show later this week. Piper Jaffray analyst
Safa Rashtchy set a $600 price target for Google's shares by the end of 2006.]
(By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, 1-4-2006)
Six Predictions for 2006
[Prediction One: Google's stock goes down, Hewlett-Packard's stock goes up.
Google's continuing growth & success won't be enough to sustain the bulls.
The stock will finish 2006 somewhere below its 2005 closing price of $414.86.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 1-2-2006)
Digital maps going beyond the roads
[Microsoft, Yahoo, MapQuest and Google get their primary data from two companies,
Navteq Corp. and Tele Atlas NV, Google & Microsoft have satellite imagery from private
and government sources. Google recently unveiled a prototype of its Transit Trip Planner.
The tool checks bus and subway schedules for Portland, Ore., to plot the best itinerary]
(By Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-29-2005)
Google founders help finance indie film
[Brin & Page are the executive producers of "Broken Arrows," the story of a man who
loses his pregnant wife in a terrorist attack and then takes a job as a hit man.]
(SiliconValley.com, 12-29-2005)
Google expanding European base in Ireland, hiring 600 more people
[Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5%, compared to 35% in the United States.]
(SiliconValley.com, 12-13-2005)
* The Power Grid: Googlephobia
[Google may be the giant asteroid that is going to make the old-media
dinosaurs extinct— but the publishing industry is trying to head it off.]
(By John Heilemann, New York Magazine, 12-5-2005)
Intel CEO Paul Otellini tells tales from inside
[He conceded elements of Google's culture "drive me nuts," especially how employees
bring their dogs to work, lie about on futons and get free food in the cafeteria.
He admired Google's fresh approach to managing employees, such as allowing
workers to work on any project of their choice one day of the week.]
(By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, 12-5-2005)
* ROUNDTABLES | THE GOOGLEVERSE: Intelligently designed and evolving
[Guest Panelists: Stephen Arnold, John Battelle, Michael Bazeley, Nicholas Carr,
Cindy Cohn, Doug Edwards, Paul Ford, Gautam Godhwani, Charlene Li, Om Malik,
Matt Mullenweg, Gary Price, Rich Skrenta, and David Vise]
(SiliconValley.com, 12-4-2005)
* Google stock: Bargain or bubble?
[Google's market value has soared above $100 billion— eclipsing business icons
that includes Coca Cola, Pepsico, Time Warner, Hewlett-Packard, and Home Depot.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-2-2005)
Google insiders cash in on company stock
[A total of 14 Google executives & directors had pocketed a combined
$4.3 billion by selling 18.6 million of their shares so far this year.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 12-2-2005)
** A Risky Gamble With Google
[We need services like that provided by Google Library. Libraries should not be
relinquishing their core duties to private corporations for the sake of expediency.]
(By Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12-2-2005)
Stanford earns $336 million from Google stock
[Stanford received 1.8 million shares of Google stocks. Had Stanford waited until
this week to sell its Google shares, it could have brought in more than $700 million.]
(By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, 12-1-2005)
Google, Yahoo test new online ad model
[Pay-per-call: Search engines can charge more— $2 to $10
or even more per call,compared with less than $1 per click.]
(By David Koenig, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-30-2005)
Google users under the microscope
[The Google Space lab will house a number of internet "pods", offering
free web access to those travelling through the airport until December 17.]
(By Louisa Hearn, The Age, Australia, 11-28-2005)
Google Offers More Ad Flexibility
[Google has announced that it will allow advertisers to bid
separately for keyword ads on content pages and search pages.]
(By Mike Shields, Media Week, 11-28-2005)
Net giants `poaching' from VCs [Yahoo and Google, with loads of cash on hand
and in constant competition for the latest Internet breakthroughs, are finding
themselves brushing up against the interests of venture capitalists more and more.]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 11-23-2005)
Is sky Google's only limit?
[Google's shares cleared the $400 mark for the first time Thursday, 11/17/05.
Google's stock market value, $119 billion, surpassed Cisco Systems and trails
only Intel at $151 billion for the most valuable in Silicon Valley.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 11-18-2005)
Mountain View accepts Google's offer of free WiFi
[The city will get full umbrella of free WiFi coverage. Google will install as many
as 400 transmitters the size of a shoe box on streetlamps throughout the city.]
(By Renee Koury, San Jose Mercury News, 11-16-2005)
New service expands Google's reach [An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets
anyone upload most anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying
the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising.]
(By Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-16-2005)
WebSideStory down; Google to offer competing software for free
[Shares of WebSideStory fell $2.10, or 12% to $15.90 after Google Inc.
announced it will provide free Web-site usage tracking software.]
(SiliconValley.com, 11-14-2005)
Google's next gobble: classified ads?
[The new technology "Google Automat" would let people sell things on Google much as
they do on eBay or craigslist. It would let people create ads in less than a minute.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 11-10-2005)
FREE WIFI: Google expands coverage offer to Mountain View
[Google approached Mountain View leaders and offered to hoist 300
transmitters onto the city's 3,000 telephone poles and street lights.
WiFi service could be installed as early as the first few months of 2006.]
(By Jessie Seyfer & Jessica Portner, San Jose Mercury News, 11-10-2005)
Clarification: Google Mobile-Maps story
[The story should have made clear that the GPS function isn't available yet.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-7-2005)
Map service: Don't try this while driving
[Now you can download the new Google Local software to your Java-enhanced
cell phone to find nearby restaurants, hotels, ATM machines or WiFi hotspots.
To try it out, go to http://www.google.com/glm]
(By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, 11-7-2005)
Google offers index of public domain works
[Google will offer the entire contents of books & government documents
that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can
be scanned and indexed from five major libraries.]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 11-3-2005)
Google's stock scales new heights
[Google Inc.'s market value briefly surpassed $100 billion for the first time.
Shares traded as high as $346.43 and closed at $339.90, a gain of $36.70 or 12.1%]
(SiliconValley.com, 10-21-2005)
Google's earnings soar
[Surge in online advertising helps double revenue as profits increase sevenfold.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 10-21-2005)
Big Brother lurking in WiFi, mobile services [Google wants to create
a new kind of online advertising where its network knows your precise location
and displays ads for businesses within just a few blocks of wherever you are.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 10-19-2005)
Google Earth digs deeper
[Commercial real estate's largest data provider is working with
Google to integrate its vast stores of building information with
the Google Earth interactive satellite mapping service.]
(By Jon Ann Steinmetz, San Jose Mercury News, 10-18-2005)
Insiders: Sergey Brin's share sales less than a googol
[Brin's stock sales since last year amounted to $1,066,552,692;
Co-founder Larry Page collected $978.4 million in stock sales.]
(By Karl Schoenberger, San Jose Mercury News, 10-17-2005)
Judge tentatively sides with Microsoft in Google employment dispute
[Judge Ronald Whyte will pause a Google lawsuit that seeks to invalidate
a noncompete agreement that's preventing Kai-Fu Lee from carrying out all
his duties as the new director of the company's research center in China.]
(SiliconValley.com, 10-14-2005)
Google to report earnings in format favored by Wall Street
[Although Google's stock has more than tripled since its August 2004 initial
public offering, the company's refusal to provide pro forma earnings has frustrated
people trying to compare the GAAP profit to the consensus analyst estimate.]
(SiliconValley.com, 10-13-2005)
Google commits nearly $1 billion to philanthropic arm
[Google is pegging its total philanthropic commitment to the value
of 3 million company shares. Google's success has turned Page & Brin, both 32,
into technology moguls, each have amassed an estimated fortune of $11 billion.]
(SiliconValley.com, 10-11-2005)
Google Registered Domain Name List Updated
[Googlereader.com .info, .net, .org registered prior to release of Google Reader]
(By Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch, 10-9-2005)
* Google in position to control all aspects of life
[Online giant is in position to control the way people work,
communicate, shop, read and watch TV.]
(By Michael Liedtke, Florida Sun-Sentinel, 10-9-2005)
* Google's small steps, giant leaps
[In a 7-day span, Google partnered with NASA on research, offered to provide free WiFi
to San Francisco, and collaborated with Sun Microsystems in creating desktop software
for office workers. What Microsoft was to the PC era, Google is to the Internet era.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 10-9-2005)
* Search Is FAR From Being Done
[Google's CEO Eric Schmidt says it might be 300 years before Google indexes all
the world's information and makes it searchable. I suspect we'll get to 99.9 %
within 30 years. Schmidt should read Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near".]
(By Robert Scoble, WebProNews, 10-9-2005)
* Google ETA? 300 years to index the world's info
[Of the 5 million terabytes of information out in the world,
only about 170 terabytes have been indexed]
(By Elinor Mills, CNET News, 10-8-2005)
Taiwan wants Google to apologize [Taiwan demands that the search engine
change its recently launched Google Maps, which currently displays the name
"Taiwan, Province of China" next to a map of the island.]
(By April Lynch, San Jose Mercury News, 10-7-2005)
Semel On Yahoo Being New To Search, More Open To Google
[Paid inclusion remains the big fly-in-the-ointment with me about Yahoo.]
(Posted by Danny Sullivan, NEWS, 10-6-2005)
Yahoo CEO belittles Google's recent expansion efforts
[Terry Semel said "Google is looking more and more like a portal.
And as a portal, it probably would be rated No. 4."]
(SiliconValley.com, 10-6-2005)
Google localizes online maps service
[The new features will be available either at http://maps.google.com and
http://local.google.com. The hybrid service blends addresses, phone numbers,
maps, driving directions and other details, like user reviews and credit card
information, on the same Web page. Google also offers a satellite-mapping option.]
(By Michael Liedtke, SiliconValley.com,, 10-6-2005)
Hinting at a future without Microsoft
[The battle of Sun-Google vs. Microsoft is now moving into full swing.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 10-5-2005)
Free OpenOffice isn't obscure anymore
[Google will join the Sun-backed OpenOffice project, and would one day distribute
over the Internet word processing, spreadsheet and PowerPoint-like software.]
(By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, 10-5-2005)
No tears for the monster Google is about to behead
[I see Google as a knight in shining armor, decapitating the two-headed monster
of SBC & Comcast that has controlled high-speed Internet access for the Bay Area.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 10-4-2005)
Google-Sun alliance may presage challenge to Office
[The move could lead to Google offering next-generation word processing,
spreadsheet and collaboration tools that would take on Microsoft's
industry-leading Office suite of software.]
(SiliconValley.com, 10-4-2005)
WiFi competition in San Francisco
[Two dozen companies will battle Google to provide public wireless Internet access,
including SBC, Comcast, Cingular, Earthlink, Ericsson, Nortel, Motorola, and Cisco.]
(By Jessie Seyfer, San Jose Mercury News, 10-4-2005)
Is Google's NASA campus a search for a tax break?
[Google would help build the 1 million-square-foot project, upgrade infrastructure,
pay fair-market rent and shell out about $4.5 million a year to NASA/Ames for
services, such as fire, police, sewage and other utilities.]
(By Jessica Portner & Julie Patel, San Jose Mercury News, 10-3-2005)
Google's libraries project facing writers' block
[The dispute came to a head on Sept. 20 when the Author's Guild,
a group representing writers, filed a class-action lawsuit to stop
or modify the Google Print Library Project.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 10-3-2005)
Yahoo to jump into book databases
[Yahoo Inc. plans to begin scanning books and collecting other
media content in an online database rivaling Google Inc.'s effort.]
(MarketWatch, 10-3-2005)
Sun surges ahead of Google news
[Sun Microsystems Inc. shares climbed almost 7% on speculation about what the computer
server and software company has in store for a new partnership with Google Inc.]
(By Rex Crum, MarketWatch, 10-3-2005)
Assessor will try to make Google pay property taxes
[A project of that size would generate at least $2.5-$3 million
in annual property taxes for local governments.]
(By Jessica Portner and Julie Patel, San Jose Mercury News, 9-29-2005)
Google, NASA join hands on research
[Google has added nearly 1,200 employees in the first 6 months of this
year, bringing its total headcount worldwide to 4,183 as of June 2005.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-29-2005)
Report: Google to build sprawling campus at NASA Ames
[Plans to build a new 1-million-square foot corporate campus
at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-28-2005)
Google offers prime-time video streamcasts
[Internet streamcast of last week's TV premiere of Chris Rock's new comedy.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-26-2005)
Google WiFi hints are on Web [Speculation that Google wants to blanket
the Earth with free WiFi ratcheted up Tuesday after Internet users discovered
software on its Web site that allows access to a service called "Google WiFi."]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-21-2005)
* Google builds an empire to rival Microsoft
[Author Stephen Arnold has closely analyzed Google patents, engineering documents
and technology and has concluded that Google has a grand ambition—
to push the information age off the desktop and onto the Internet.]
(By Elinor Mills, CNET News, 9-21-2005)
Microsoft reorganizing corporate structure
[CTO Ray Ozzie to have broader powers in an effort to better compete
against its rivals, including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-20-2005)
Google begins limited test of Wi-Fi service
[Nate Tyler: "Google WiFi is a community outreach program to offer
free wireless access in areas near Google headquarters."]
(By Reuters, 9-20-2005)
Google to Put Copyright Laws to the Test
[Under the Print Library Project, Google is scanning millions of copyright books from
libraries at Harvard, Michigan and Stanford along with out-of-copyright materials there.]
(By ANICK JESDANUN, Washington Post, 9-19-2005)
Google Launches Blog Search
[BlogSearch.Google.com enters a market dominated by niche search engines
like Technorati.com, BlogPulse.com, Feedster.com, and IceRocket.com.]
(By Shankar Gupta, Online Media Daily, 9-15-2005)
$4.2 billion raised by Google in 2nd Offer [Google set a price of $295
a share on the 14.2 million shares it sold to select investors.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-15-2005)
Pressure cooker: One chef's tryout at Google
[Google's kitchen is a chef's Disneyland where food is born
of inspiration and pure love of cooking. Recipe included.]
(By Steve Petusevsky, SiliconValley.com, 9-14-2005)
Google (Finally) Offers Blog Search
[Google is first with an an industrial strength blog & feed search utility.]
(By Chris Sheerman, SearchEngineWatch.com, 9-13-2005)
Google hires Vinton Cerf, an Internet founding father
["The Internet has many fathers but he was one of the chief fathers,"
Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0, said of Cerf.]
(By Bloomberg News, Boston Globe, 9-9-2005)
CATCHING UP WITH JOHN BATTELLE: Tech guru envisions future
with everything searchable [He co-founded Wired magazine and
founded the Industry Standard magazine. In his new book, Battelle
envisions that most objects we value, including our pets, will be
tagged with an electronic RFID chip & linked to a searchable database.]
(Interview with Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-6-2005)
Google's chronicler searches out valley icon
[Tech Guru John Battelle explores implications of engine driving
Valley innovation in The Search: How Google and Its Rivals
Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-6-2005)
Blacklisting media outlet could send chilling message
[As a corporate citizen, Google must be engaged in a conversation
with the public that's channeled in part through media outlets.]
(Editorial, San Jose Mercury News, 9-2-2005)
Google opens digital library to European book publishers
[Google Print book-scanning project now opened to publishers
in France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Spain.]
(SiliconValley.com, 9-1-2005)
Google branches out with print ads
[Its online clients get more exposure and cheaper prices.]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 9-1-2005)
Google instant-messaging service does a lot without bells, whistles
[Google Talk offers no scrolling stock tickers, flashing
ad banners, pop-up news pages or animated buddy icons.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-25-2005)
Launch of Google Talk begets new portal player
[Google Talk allows you to instant message and chat with your
friends directly from your computer to theirs. Google also may
unleash a voice service that lets you call fixed-line phones too.]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 8-24-2005)
Google stepping beyond search
[Google's pair of new services is putting it more
directly in competition with Microsoft and Yahoo.]
(By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, 8-23-2005)
Google revamps desktop search program
[Google updates its software for searching PC hard drives and adds tools
that deliver personalized information based on a user's Web surfing habits.]
(By Matthew Fordahl, SiliconValley.com, 8-22-2005)
Google to make $4 billion stock offering
[The stock sale of 14.2 million shares would boost Google's
cash reserves and its ability to make high-profile acquisitions.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-18-2005)
Google deadline on book scanning stuns publishers
[Google notified publishers & authors that they must contact it by
November if they don't want their copyrighted material scanned.]
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 8-13-2005)
Google blackout of journalist a black eye for Internet giant
[Google willstop talking to all reporters from the CNet for a year.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-10-2005)
Google search: Chefs
[Google is scouring the world for a pair of executive chefs]
(By John Boudreau & Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-5-2005)
Tech notebook: Podcasts? Google is eating Apple dust
[Silicon Valley VC Roger McNamee asks: "How did Google miss podcasting?"]
(By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, 8-1-2005)
Google insiders sell $2.9 billion
[Google search engine now scans more than 8 billion Web sites]
(By Dan Lee, San Jose Mercury News, 8-1-2005)
Google stock sinks on slow revenue growth
[Shares of Google fell $15.96, or 5.1%, to $297.98]
(By Michael Liedtke, SiliconValley.com, 7-22-2005)
Google cautious about gains
[CFO Reyes alerts on slowdown after quadrupling profits to $1.19/share]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 7-22-2005)
Google map service covers lunar surface
[36 years after first man's lunar landing, Google maps the moon]
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 7-21-2005)
Google to expand presence in China
[R&D center to be headed by former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 7-20-2005)
Google shares continue climb past $300
(SiliconValley.com,, 6-28-2005)
OUR TAKE: Google's Payday Is Coming
(By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool, 6-23-2005)
Official: Monier Is Going To Google
(By Gary Price, SearchEngineWatch.com, 6-23-2005)
Louis Monier On Why He's Going To Google
(By John Battelle, Battellemedia.com, 6-23-2005)
Beware the Google Threat
(By Adam L. Penenberg, Wired News, 6-23-2005)
eBay & Google learn the China lesson: You gotta be there
[Because Google hasn't given sufficient attention to the Chinese
market, it has been surpassed by Chinese enterprises like Baidu.]
(By Matt Marshall, Silicon Beat, 6-23-2005)
Google Secrets Revealed
[Patent application gives some insight into its PageRank technology.]
(By David Utter, WebProNews, 6-23-2005)
Publishers to Google Library: Place Six-Month Moratorium on Scanning Books
(MarketingVOX News, 6-23-2005)
Review: Trivia Stump Smart Search Engines
[Answer.com & Ask.com better than Google, Yahoo, and MSN]
(By Michael Liedtke, Washington Post, 6-22-2005)
NEWS ANALYSIS: A New Page in Google's Books Fight
(By Burt Helm, Business Week, 6-22-2005)
CEO says Google won't compete with PayPal
(By Michael Liedtke, San Jose Mercury News, 6-22-2005)
Google's potential expansion into online payments raises intrigue
(SiliconValley.com, 6-21-2005)
Google maps filled with extras
[Site can show satellite views, crime areas, more]
(By Charles Paschal, The State, South Carolina, 6-21-2005)
MSN Search Launches Local & Maps
[MSN Search has released its Local and Maps product, designed to
compete with Google Local & Maps, and I for one am not impressed.]
(By Nathan Weinberg, WebProNews, 6-21-2005)
Google may expand into online payments
(By Michael Liedtke, San Jose Mercury News, 6-20-2005)
Microsoft Online Launches Search Feature
[Catching up with rivals Google Inc. & Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. unveiled
an improved search service that delivers results tuned to users' location]
(Associated Press, Washington Post, 6-20-2005)
The search for GoogleÍs soul
[Is Google a media company? The question came up last week when the companyÍs
stock market value surpassed that of Time Warner. One answer is: Sure...]
(By Dan Mitchell, Financial Express, India, 6-20-2005)
Tech Firms Try to Conquer the Globe
[Google and Microsoft Compete to Offer Navigable 3-D Maps of the Earth]
(By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post, 6-15-2005)
Yahoo Subscription Search Won't Do Much for Most
[Yahoo, locked in a feature war with Google, rolled out a new service to let
people sift through Internet subscription sites from a single query box.]
(By Leslie Walker, Washington Post, 6-15-2005)
Market, Investors Watch Google Stock Gains
[Ten months ago Google's IPO at $85 is now closing in on $300 a share,
giving it a market capitalization of more than $78 billion]
(By Rachel Beck, Washington Post, 6-14-2005)
Google, Yahoo Seen Boosted by Ad Surge
[Search advertising will generate about $5.6 billion
this year, then more than double to $12.3 billion by 2009]
(Associated Press, Washington Post, 6-10-2005)
Cross craigslist with Google and get...
[A new place to live with a lot less fuss]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 5-30-2005)
The Google Factory: Where Do Marketers Fit In?
["Our goal here was to give users tools to customize and organize their own information"]
(By Pamela Parker, ClickZ Network, 5-26-2005)
Google hits the business world: Variety of services keep Google a friend of Wall Street
[Web users who want to track the latest news stories or blog posts can sign up
to receive RSS 3 which stands for really simple syndication 3 feeds.]
(By Michelle Keller, The Stanford Daily, 5-24-2005)
Google Reveals a Few Secrets
[Customizable homepage is now available at labs.google.com— that integrates
Google's Web-based products, including its popular Gmail service and
GoogleMaps-powered driving directions, into one personalized Web site.]
(The Stanford Daily, Newsfactor Technology News, 5-22-2005)
Google insiders facing option: Sell stock now or bide time
["Lockup" on insider stock sales expires Monday; $19 billion stock sale?]
(By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, 2-13-2005)
Google details strategy for analysts
[Search engine operator's CEO describes plans to continue growth]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 2-10-2005)
Time Warner reports $1 billion-plus stake in Google
[Time Warner still owns about 5.08 million Google shares]
(SiliconValley.com, 2-4-2005)
Google profit, revenue rocket
[$204 million earnings in Q4 up sevenfold]
(By K. Oanh Ha, San Jose Mercury News, 2-2-2005)
Google blows past Q4 expectations
[Earned $204.1 million, or 71 cents per share, in last quarter 2004
compared to $27.3 million, or 10 cents per share, in last quareter 2003.
Revenues totaled $1.03 billion, doubling from $512.2 million in 2003.]
(SiliconValley.com, 2-1-2005)
Google to offer TV search
[Google Video (www.google.com/video) indexes the closed-caption
transcripts from PBS, C-SPAN, Fox News, the NBA and others.]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 1-25-2005)
Search engines' use in daily life grows
[Survey: Users are unclear on sites' practices. Google uses
digital cookies to collect anonymous information about its users]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 1-24-2005)
Google settles SEC charges involving stock options
(SiliconValley.com, 1-13-2005)
Google to fund deep-pocketed charitable foundation
(SiliconValley.com, 1-5-2005)
Lesley Stahl upgrades Google from "accumulate" to "overexposed"
(By John Paczkowski, SiliconValley.com, 1-4-2005)
Google wins in trademark lawsuit [vs. Geico on rival ads]
(SiliconValley.com, 12-15-2004)
Does Google move augur commercialization of libraries?
(SiliconValley.com, 12-14-2004)
Google co-founders, CEO to sell up to 16.6 million shares
(SiliconValley.com, 11-19-2004)
Analysis: Don't expect a quick split from Google
(By Michael Liedike, AP, SiliconValley.com, 11-5-2004)
Effect of Google IPO felt by newer deals
(SiliconValley.com, 11-1-2004)
Highflier Google on right track for growth
(By Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, 10-31-2004)
* Google guru shares words of wisdom [Ram Shriram]
["Ram's Book of Mistakes" to guide the way for Google founders]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 10-30-2004)
Google acquires mapping start-up [Keyhole provides aerial images]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 10-28-2004)
Google founders' wealth surges
[Larry Page & Sergey Brin goes from Forbes magazine's 43rd richest
($4 billion) to 27th richest ($6.9 billion) from September to October]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 10-27-2004)
Google investors revel in stock's success
(SiliconValley.com, 10-26-2004)
* Brain teasers, poetry, jobs and Google
(By Michael Liedike, Miami Herald, 10-26-2004)
First Post-IPO Google Earnings Deliver
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, Washington Post, 10-22-2004)
Gaga over Google
(By Paul J. Lim, U.S. News & World Report, 10-22-2004)
Uh, Jack, that memo you wrote about Google being
overvalued at $90... the boss wants to see you.
(By John Paczkowski, SiliconValley.com, 10-22-2004)
Google posts big gains [profit, sales double since IPO]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 10-22-2004)
New search engine aims for user control [Snap & Google test]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 10-6-2004)
Vivisimo receives another makeover:
New Search Site Uses 'Clustering' to Display Results
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-30-2004)
Google hits a high: Shares Get Boost from Analysts' Upbeat Reports
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-29-2004)
Google site in China under fire
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 9-25-2004)
Google's Chinese news service omits government-banned sites
(SiliconValley.com, 9-24-2004)
Google at bottom of ISS governance ranking
(SiliconValley.com, 8-23-2004)
Google Not The First To Go Dutch
(By Jerry Knight, Washington Post, 8-23-2004)
Suddenly rich: Avoiding the pitfalls of windfalls
(By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, 8-22-2004)
Google Faces Challenge of Public Company Status
(By Jonathan Krim, Washington Post, 8-21-2004)
Google stock rises again on 2nd day [$108.31]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 8-21-2004)
Google's success affects how others do business in valley
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-21-2004)
Investors Greet Google With a $27 Billion Smile [Market Value Tops Ford, GM]
(By David A. Vise, Washington Post, 8-20-2004)
Insiders Get Rich Through IPO
[Founders Each Make $41 Million, Are Worth About $3.8 Billion]
(By Terence O'Hara, Washington Post, 8-20-2004)
A Gaggle Of Google Critics
(By Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 8-20-2004)
No big pop, but still bubbly [18% gain for Google stock]
(By Michael Bazeley and Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-20-2004)
Underwriters' help sealed Google deal
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-20-2004)
Naysayers are wrong: Google IPO was a success
(By Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, 8-20-2004)
Making a nice profit on the first day
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-20-2004)
Going, going, Google: After the dust settles, entrepreneurs, bankers
and VCs give mixed reviews of Google1s unconventional path to IPO.
(Red Herring, 8-20-2004)
Google goes public, in more ways than one
(Red Herring, 8-19-2004)
Google jumps 18% on debut
(By Paul R. La Monica, CNN.com, 8-19-2004)
* Insiders Get Rich Through IPO: Founders Each Make $41 Million, Are Worth About $3.8 Billion
(By Terence O'Hara, Washington Post, 8-19-2004)
Google Ends Auction for IPO Shares [Price Is $85 a Share, At Low End of Estimate]
(By David A. Vise, Washington Post, 8-19-2004)
Google off to a running start [Stocks closes up 18%]
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-19-2004)
* Company must now take steps to go beyond good
(By Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, 8-19-2004)
Google bidders pressured by last-minute rush
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-18-2004)
* Gambling on Google [Graphics]
(By Bill Webster & Karen Yourish, Washington Post, 8-18-2004)
Google Sharply Reduces IPO Share Price
(By Fred Barbash and David A. Vise, Washington Post, 8-18-2004)
SEC approves Google IPO
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-18-2004)
* The Google guys' attitude has been... Trust us... but has the brashness cost them?
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 8-18-2004)
The glare is on Google
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-18-2004)
* The guts of Google: crawling, indexing, sorting
(By Robert S. Boyd, San Jose Mercury News, 8-18-2004)
Google closes auction on IPO after SEC gives final nod
(By Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press, 8-18-2004)
Tactics of 'Google Guys' Test IPO Law's Limits
(By David A. Vise, Washington Post, 8-17-2004)
Google IPO paperwork delayed
(SiliconValley.com, 8-17-2004)
Google bidding to close today
(By Deborah Lohse and Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-17-2004)
Because of, Or Despite, News, Bids Placed in IPO
(By Ben White and Terence O'Hara, Washington Post, 8-14-2004)
I may bid high— but don't you do it
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-14-2004)
Google scurries to clarify new goof
(By Deborah Lohse and Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-14-2004)
Google opens the gates today
(By Deborah Lohse and Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-13-2004)
Google issues investor warning about Playboy interview
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-13-2004)
To bid or not to bid
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 8-13-2004)
Bidding Opens New Chapter for Tech 'God' Google
(By David A. Vise, Washington Post, 8-13-2004)
Google IPO Moving Ahead Despite Playboy Flap
(By Michael Liedtke, Washington Post, 8-12-2004)
Google auction starts Friday [IPO Set for Next Week]
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-12-2004)
Playboy interview may affect Google IPO
(Associated Press, SiliconValley.com, 8-12-2004)
Google IPO appears to be on track
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-11-2004)
Time to stand back, take a deep breath
(By Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, 8-11-2004)
Google to end IPO registration Thursday
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 8-10-2004)
Google to give Yahoo more stock to settle patent dispute
(SiliconValley.com, 8-9-2004)
Google IPO to offer more shares
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-9-2004)
Google debut losing luster
(By Deborah Lohse & Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-8-2004)
Google's good-vibes IPO running into backlash
(Associated Press, SilconValley.com, 8-6-2004)
Google IPO hits snag
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 8-6-2004)
Google IPO more risky for bankers
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-5-2004)
The Right Place [165 University Ave, Palo Alto:
Former Office Building to Logitech, PayPal, Google]
(By Mike Cassidy, San Jose Mercury News, 8-5-2004)
Google may have illegally sold shares
(By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 8-5-2004)
In dark about Google IPO
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 8-4-2004)
Ad strategy makes Google a powerhouse
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 8-1-2004)
Google unveils IPO Web site
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 7-31-2004)
Google rank-and-file to become millionaires
(By Deborah Lohse & Jack Davis, San Jose Mercury News, 7-28-2004)
* Job hunters, Google this: Puzzle on 101— a job ad in disguise
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 7-10-2004)
Google, Yahoo face off in suit
[Overture patent]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 6-4-2004)
Google to place ads with images
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 5-13-2004)
Going Public May Be Google's First Bad Move
(By Allan Sloan, Washington Post, 5-4-2004)
Google IPO boosting valley's battered spirit
(By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, 5-2-2004)
The thrill is gone, Google; but it's not you, it's us
(By Mike Cassidy, San Jose Mercury News, 5-2-2004)
Like all things, Google keeps ambitions quiet
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 5-1-2004)
Investors get glimpse of Google's ideas, goals
(By By K. Oanh Ha and Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, 5-1-2004)
GOOGLE IPO: Sharing the wealth
(By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, 5-1-2004)
Google goes for it [Stock Sale Auction Open to Small Investors]
(By Michael Bazeley, San Jose Mercury News, 4-30-2004)
Company's founders have power to do some good
(By Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, 4-30-2004)
Rules of thumb to calculate company's value
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 4-30-2004)
Letter from the Google founders
(SiliconValley.com, 4-30-2004)
Google breaks the IPO mold [Plans Online Auction Process]
(By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, 4-30-2004)
Don't disregard risks of investing in youthful firm
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, 4-30-2004)
How you can bid online for Google shares
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 4-30-2004)
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The Secret Source of Google's Power
(By Rich Skrenta, Topix.net Weblog, 4-4-2004)
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Yahoo dumps Google [Two giants go their separate ways]
(Red Herring, 2-19-2004)
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World's largest Chinese search engine 'China Search Online' launched
(By Gao Lanrong, People's Daily, 12-25-2003)
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Google's future looking good: Bulked-up search firm beats up rivals
(By Verne Kopytoff, SF Chronicle, 11-9-2003)
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Googlistas will never be Mooglesofters [Search engine deal could backfire]
(The Guardian, UK, 11-1-2003)
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Microsoft Specter Stalks Google
(By STEPHEN LYNCH, New York Post, 11-1-2003)
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Microsoft makes a move on Google
(By Simon English, London Telegraph, 11-1-2003)
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Microsoft in merger talks with Google
(London Telegraph, 10-31-2003)
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Jupiter Research Study Finds Overture Outscores Google
(Media Daily News, 10-31-2003)
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Yahoo! takes! Overture! to! Europe!
(By Drew Cullen, The Register, 10-30-2003)
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Will Google Become Another Netscape?
(By Cliff, Slashdot, 10-31-2003)
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Friendster spurns Google [Dating site says no to $30 million purchase]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 10-31-2003)
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OUR TAKE: Google's Ticker Treat
(By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool, 10-31-2003)
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HindustanTimes.com ties up with Google
[as a media vehicle for its sponsored contextual advertising]
(HindustanTimes.com, 10-31-2003)
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Google's API: For Fun, Not Profit (Yet)
(By Avi Rappoport, SearchEngineWatch.com, 10-30-2003)
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LifeFiles: Married To My Computer: Admitting Problem Is First Step
(By Julie Moos, Life Files, Champlain Channel, 10-30-2003)
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* The next hot internet stock: How good is Google?
(The Economist, 10-30-2003)
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* To Place Ads, Google Searches For Best Bidders
(By Leslie Walker, Washington Post, 10-30-2003)
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Overture Tops Google in Paid Listings Study
(Web Advantage, 10-30-2003)
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Google Makes the Public Announcement: IPO in February
(By Jim Hedger, Internet Search Engine Database, 10-29-2003)
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Google looks at compiling a massive book database
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10-29-2003)
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Google eyes book search
(By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, 10-29-2003)
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Google searches for winning ad strategy
(By Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com, 10-28-2003)
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Google's IPO offers both risk and reward
(By Paul Kedrosky, National Post, Canada, 10-28-2003)
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* Local Search Part 3: Google Gets Local With AdWords
(By Dan Sullivan, SearchEngineWatc.com, 10-28-2003)
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* Will Google be giggling?
(By Adam Lashinsky, CNN/Money, 10-28-2003)
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* The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Looks for Book Content
(By Steven Zeitchik, Publishers Weekly NewsLine, 10-28-2003)
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Google News Refusing Blogs
(By hannahwye, AlwaysOn, 10-28-2003)
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Google float may make it a target of Net activists
(By Simon English, The Telegraph, UK, 10-25-2003)
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* God & Google: Do you ever treat God like a search engine?
(By Tracy Carbaugh, Campus Life, Sept/Oct. 2003)
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Google v Yahoo! Battle of the search engines
(PR Newswire, UK, 9-29-2003)
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Who's on First? What's on Second? IDon'tKnow who's Third
(By Jim Hedger, Internet Search Engine Database, 9-29-2003)
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Grudge Match: Google vs. Amazon
(By Matthew Falzone, Always On, 9-28-2003)
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Amazon.com invades Google's turf with search startup
(Associated Press, USA Today, 9-26-2003)
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Amazon steps in on Google's, Yahoo's turf
(San Francisco Business Times, 9-26-2003)
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Google clocks up advertiser milestone [150,000 advertisers worldwide]
(IndianTelevision.com Media, 9-26-2003)
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Is Google like Microsoft? In some ways
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, 9-25-2003)
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Google tests local search
(By Stefanie Olsen, C|net News, 9-22-2003)
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Microsoft bets big on new searching technology
(By Helen Jung, Detroit News, 9-22-2003)
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Microsoft Reveals Search-Engine Ambitions
(By Michael Y. Park, NewsFactor Network, 9-22-2003)
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Online Advertisers Find What They Need At Google
(By KNIGHT RIDDER, The Day, New London, CT, 9-21-2003)
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Who's better: Google or CU librarians? Search me
(By JARRETT MCLAUGHLIN, Ithaca Journal, 9-20-2003)
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Cornell librarians test themselves against Google researchers
(By Associated Press, Newsday, 9-19-2003)
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Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians
Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers
(By Anne R. Kenney, et. al., D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 6, June 2003)
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Microsoft goes after Google
(By Reuters, CNN Tech News, 9-19-2003)
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Prying Google seen as a risk
(By RICHARD PAMATATAU, New Zealand Herald, 9-19-2003)
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You do the math, or let Google do it for you
(By Leslie Walker, Washington Post, Fort Worth Star Telegram, 9-18-2003)
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Speedy Returns Are Google's Goal
(By Phil Hochmuth, E-Commerce Times, 9-18-2003)
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Google seeking a few good code jockeys
(By By Stefanie Olsen, C|Net News, Business Week, 9-17-2003)
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Google Ahead of Overture in Contextual Ads
(By Jim Hedger, ISEDB.com News, 9-17-2003)
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New Targeted Content Ads Pose Direct Challenge to Google's 'Adsense'
(PRNewswire, Yahoo Finance News, 9-16-2003)
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Google vs. eBay? [interview with eBay CEO Meg Whitman]
(By David Gardner & Tom Gardner, Motley Fool, 9-16-2003)
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Hawaii Web site tops Google Japan
(Pacific Business News, 9-16-2003)
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Google - the only archive we'll ever need?
(By By Andrew Orlowski, The Register, UK, 9-15-2003)
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The online ad wars: Competitors snap at Google
(By Matt Marshall, Nzoom, New Zealand, 9-15-2003)
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Niche players can charge premium to find what Google can't
(By Chris Gaither, Boston Globe, IHT, 9-10-2003)
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Warrant seeks N.Y. Times, Google hacker
(By Associated Press, CNN News, 9-8-2003)
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Spinning a web
(By Sachin Kalbag, mid-day.com, 9-7-2003)
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Exclusive: Sergey Brin interview
(By Sachin Kalbag, mid-day.com, 9-7-2003)
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Google celebrates fifth birthday
(BBC News, 9-7-2003)
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Mr. Gates and the Hunt for Search [Will Microsoft Netscape Google?]
(By John Battelle, Business 2.0, Sept. 2003, pp. 56-58)
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Yahoo and MSN Continue to Grab for Google's Gold
(By Jim Hedger, ISEDB.com News, 8-20-2003)
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Watch Out, Google [Nutch could rewrite the rules of search]
(By John Battelle, Business 2.0, August2003)
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Google launches India site in 5 languages
(By Sachin Kalbag, mid-day.com, 7-31-2003)
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Tips to Avoid AdWords Hassles
(By Tessa Wegert, Internet.com, 7-10-2003)
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GDS: The Google Dance Syndrome, Part 2
(By Danny Sullivan, Internet.com, July 9, 2003)
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GDS: The Google Dance Syndrome, Part 1
(By Danny Sullivan, Internet.com, July 2, 2003)
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Google bombed by missing WMDs
(By Andrew Orlowski, The Register, July 3, 2003)
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Consumers don't trust paid-for search
(By Drew Cullen, The Register, July 2, 2003)
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Blog noise is 'life or death' for Google
(By Andrew Orlowski, The Register, June 6, 2003)
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Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter
(By Danny Sullivan, Internet.com, June 4, 2003)
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From Googol to Google: Co-founder returns [Larry Page]
(Stanford Daily, Feb. 12, 2003)
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Google keywords knock Chinese surfers offline
(NewScientist.com, Sept. 13, 2002)
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Waiting for Google
[Will PayPal's successful share offering encourage Google to follow?]
(The Economist, Feb. 21, 2002)
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New internet search could turn up viruses
(NewScientist.com, Nov. 28, 2001)
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(5-17-2003, update 4-7-2007)