Talking With the Googlers From the Desk of David Pogue March 25, 2004

"Set the TiVo! This Sunday morning, 'CBS News Sunday Morning' will begin with my report on Google, the Web search page-slash-cultural deity that's expected to go public this Spring--the biggest in high-tech history, with a valuation as high as $25 billion."

All Eyes on Google By Steven Levy, Newsweek March 29, 2004

"In six short years, two Stanford grad students turned a simple idea into a multibillion-dollar phenomenon and changed our lives. Now competitors are searching for a way to dethrone the latest princes of the Net."

Love Affair With Google by Cynthia L. Webb, washingtonpost.com March 22, 2004

"The prospects of a huge initial public offering and the launch of innovative new services on news, shopping and local search are fueling a media infatuation with search-engine giant Google. Case in point is the cover of this week's Newsweek, which pictures Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page under the headline, "The New Age of Google."

Tools for mapping context, Collaborative Learning Environments by Martin Terre Blanche

"I'm becoming increasingly interested in finding good ways of rapidly getting a feel for a particular discursive-political-institutional landscape. For example, as a student wanting to do a thesis to do with 'critical psychology in South Africa' or an entrepreneur wanting to sell, er, postmodernism generators or whatever. Of course there is the usual boring academic thing of doing a literature survey, or you could get an overview by looking up critical psychology in an encyclopedia or something like that.

But increasingly I find myself doing this sort of thing using Google and Google-related gizmos. One tends to think of Google as a tool for locating some particular thing (say a good academic paper on critical psychology in South Africa), but I suspect that most Google searches have as much to do with getting a feel for context as with locating something specific."

Just for fun! Google before asking questions: Bart Simpson writing on the blackboard: "I will use Google before asking dumb questions."

Hidden Google Tools, askSam - Surf Report 38 By Mary Ellen Bates

"Even if you consider yourself a Google expert, these 'hidden' tools and resources let you push the search engine's capabilities to the max."

The mind Googles, www.smh.com.au March 13, 2004

"Google rules the world of wisdom for now, but the next step, writes Joel Achenbach, is a knowledge source that thinks before it looks."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Europeans take a shine to Google

"Google is an instantly recognised brand. Millions of Europeans are regular 'googlers', a study has found. According to the research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings, Google is the search engine of choice for more than 55 million Europeans."

Removing Your Materials from Google, hacks.oreilly.com March 17, 2003

HACK #100
Removing Your Materials from Google
"How to remove your content from Google's various web properties."

Googling Up Passwords SecurityFocus by Scott Granneman March 9, 2004

"Google is in many ways the most useful tool available to the bad guys, and the most dangerous Web site on the Internet for many, many thousands of individuals and organizations."

google.public.support.general FAQ

"This article includes answers to questions that appear especially frequently in the newsgroup google.public.support.general. It is not intended to replace Google's official FAQs and information for webmasters. Please read them if you haven't already done so."

http://www.google.com/help/faq.html
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/help.html
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Forrester Research Asks, 'Where Is Google Headed?

"Google's Dominance Will Weaken As Three Battles In The Search Industry Heat Up."

Google Goes Local by Jonathan Dube, Poynter Online

"The Web's global nature is a blessing and a curse -- a blessing in that it puts the world at our fingertips, and a curse in that it can be difficult to sift out the local information many users seek. While directory sites like Yahoo have attempted to categorize local information, no search engine has figured out an effective way to comb through the Web and extract websites geographically -- until now. And I'm sure you won't be surprised to learn I'm talking about Google."

Maximum Google, PCWorld.com by Steve Bass
From the June 2003 issue of PC World magazine

"Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines."

ZDNet AnchorDesk: How do I love Google? Let me count the ways by David Coursey,
Executive Editor, AnchorDesk March 12, 2004

Fast Company: How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows

"... Its performance is the envy of executives and engineers around the world ... For techno-evangelists, Google is a marvel of Web brilliance ... For Wall Street, it may be the IPO that changes everything (again) ... But Google is also a case study in savvy management -- a company filled with cutting-edge ideas, rigorous accountability, and relentless attention to detail ... Here's a search for the growth secrets of one of the world's most exciting young companies -- a company from which every company can learn."

Advanced Google Search Operators: "Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, 'link:' is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn't do a normal search but instead finds all web pages that have links to www.google.com. Several of the more common operators use punctuation instead of words, or do not require a colon. Among these operators are OR, '' " (the quote operator), - (the minus operator), and + (the plus operator)."

The Register: The perils of Googling by Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus 10/03/2004

Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations, writes SecurityFocus columnist Scott Granneman. Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would want.

SreeTips.com > Better Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does By Sree Sreenivasan, WABC-TV "Tech Guru"

"When it comes to search engines, most savvy users swear by Google and use it to start their Web hunts. It's my default search engine - I go there first. Every time. I have converted hundreds of people over the years to Google and will continue to do so, until something better comes along. Of course, I am NOT on Google's payroll, I just find it the best of the lot. But there’s more to Google - five years old in Sept. 2003 - than the simple search function. Here are some additional Googling tools." Updated Jan 22, 2004

mediabistro.com: Lies, Damned Lies, and Google

Google Offers News Alerts In Several Languages

"Google mentioned in their most recent newsletter
that they've started making news alerts available
in more languages. Now you can get them in four
additional languages:

French, German, Italian and Spanish."

ResearchBuzz #273 -- March 4, 2003

Commentary: Google's soft spot | CNET News.com Special to CNET News.com, by Charlene Li, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research March 2, 2004

"Moving toward a highly anticipated initial public offering, Google looks unstoppable."

Google Grumbles by Brian Livingston, February 18, 2004

"eWEEK's Brian Livingston finds that Google, the renowned search engine, is having a relevance problem in its search engine results. Read why."

The hit factory Charles Arthur investigates, 24 February 2004

"It was launched by two students in a garage seven years ago. Today, it is the planet's gateway to the internet and is valued at $15bn. But could the Google phenomenon crash as spectacularly as it was born?"

Mass High Tech: Guest Commentary: Think Google is the be-all and end-all of research? You?d better think again
11/24/2003 by George Plosker and Christopher Kenneally

Search For Tomorrow : by Joel Achenbach, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, February 15, 2004
We Wanted Answers, And Google Really Clicked. What's Next?

Search by Location

Google's search by location service helps you focus your search on a specific geographic location via Kegliography

Google Image Search

"DOUBLE VISION - TWICE AS MANY IMAGES AS BEFORE
...Google now searches twice as many images as it did last month. You can search by image size, format (JPEG and/or GIF) coloration and by the site or domain on which the images appear. So now you're much more likely to find exactly the image you need for that homework project or business proposal. After all, Google is all about helping you look good." March Google Friends Newsletter

4th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards by Danny Sullivan, Editor & Chris Sherman, Associate Editor, Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2004

Google wins in almost every category it's qualified to enter!

The Search Engine Watch Awards recognize outstanding achievements in web searching. The winners for accomplishments during 2003 are below:

Outstanding Search Service
Winner: Google
Second Place: AllTheWeb & Yahoo
Honorable Mention: Ask Jeeves

Best Meta Search Engine
Winner: Dogpile
Second Place: Vivisimo
Honorable Mention: Mamma

Best News Search Engine
Winner: Google News
Second Place: Yahoo News
Honorable Mention: AltaVista News & Daypop

Best Image Search Engine
Winner: Google Images
Second Place: AltaVista Images

Best Shopping Search Engine
Winner: Yahoo Shopping
Second Place: Froogle & Shopping.com
Honorable Mention: Kelkoo, BizRate & mySimon

Best Design
Winner: Google
Second Place: Yahoo & AllTheWeb

Most Webmaster Friendly Search Provider
Winner: Google
Second Place: Yahoo
Honorable Mention: Inktomi & AllTheWeb

Best Paid Placement Service
Winners: Google AdWords
Second Place: Overture
Honorable Mention: FindWhat, Espotting & Mirago

Best Search Toolbar
Winners: Google & Groowe
Second Place: Alexa
Honorable Mention: Copernic Agent

Best Search Feature
Winner: Google Definitions & AllTheWeb URL Investigator
Second Place: Google Calculator & AllTheWeb Calculator
Honorable Mention: Google Web API & Ask Jeeves Dictionary Search

Best Specialty Search Engine
Honorable Mention: Internet Archive, Scirus & Google Groups

Complete details at Search Engine Watch.

Google Achieves Search Milestone With Immediate Access To More Than 6 Billion Items

February 17, 2004
Google's collection of 6 billion items comprises 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.