Google Shares Two New Experiments with Public in Google Labs
Google engineers not only enjoy weekly roller hockey games, free gourmet lunches and an on site massage therapist; they also get their own online playground. In an effort to allow their engineers some space to experiment and play with new ideas, Google created the "Google Lab" site earlier this year. The site highlights a variety of search related products that are being developed during Google staffers free time.
Source: About | 2004-01-22

President Bush gets Google Bombed
US President George W. Bush has been Google bombed. A search for "miserable failure" on the popular search engine Google brings up, as the first link, the official biography of Bush provided by the White House.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2003-12-09

Start-up launches social search engine
Put Google and friendship together and you've got the makings of Eurekster, a new Internet search engine that combines traditional search engine technology with online social networking.
Source: ZDNet | 2004-01-21

Dogpile Toolbar Wins Award for Best Browser Toolbar Plug-In
Dogpile (www.dogpile.com), the metasearch engine that makes it easy to search more of the Web, today announced it has received high honors in PC World's "Web Stars: Best of the Web" feature published in the February 2004 issue of the magazine. Dogpile placed highly within two of the 12 categories evaluated by the editors of PC World.
Source: Business Wire | 2004-01-15

Search Fuels 178% Q4 Gain at Yahoo
Yahoo reported a strong fourth quarter yesterday thanks largely to continued growth in its paid search business. Reporting results for the first time since closing its acquisition of paid search provider Overture Services, Yahoo said increased search advertising helped power Yahoo?s marketing services revenue to $545.5 million, a 178 percent increase from the same period a year earlier.
Source: DMNews | 2004-01-15

Yahoo! Sinks Under Rising Valuation Concerns
Shares in the Net media giant slipped 4% Thursday morning, a day after the company posted solid fourth-quarter earnings and guided toward continued growth in the first quarter. Most Wall Streeters duly noted the company's strong progress, though one major analyst broke with the flock and downgraded the stock on valuation concerns.
Source: TheStreet.com | 2004-01-15


The Graphical Search Divide
Search engine marketing's stratospheric growth of late of has led many online marketers to ponder how the category can be expanded and improved upon. Numerous ideas have been thrown into the ring, ranging from local sponsored listings to better personalization. Some will certainly appear in 2004. Others are of more uncertain value.
Source: internetnews.com | 2004-01-14


There's a Gaggle Chasing Google
If you want to take a crack at knocking Google off its perch as the world's most popular search engine, you had better get in line. According to recent reports, both Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) already have started preparing next-generation search technologies in a bid to capture a portion of the fast-growing market for search advertising
Source: Wired News | 2004-01-14

Can Google put the sparkle back in IPOs?
After three years of fear and loathing, are investors ready to embrace the initial public offerings of seductive startups again? As they do with so many other things in modern life, lots of people are counting on Google to supply the answer.
Source: ZWire.com | 2003-12-14