News Quotes About Google 2004
News Quotes About Google 2004
Introduction
This page contains some news quotes about Google for year 2004.
Contents
MyDoom Virus Caused Problems to Google
Google Patents and Patent Applications
Google Personalized Web Search
Google Europe's Top Search Engine
Google Updates Google Directory Listings
Google Indexes 4,285,199,774 Web Pages
Search Engine Watch Awards for Google
MyDoom Virus Caused Problems to Google
Google says MyDoom virus caused problems
July 26, 2004
"The No. 1 Internet search engine on Monday was unable to provide search results to a number of Web surfers, probably because of a variant of the MyDoom virus."
"Users of other popular search engines such as Yahoo and Lycos may also have experienced some sluggish behavior."
"Google released a statement to CNN at 3 p.m. ET saying the site "experienced slowness for a short period of time early today because of the MyDoom virus, which flooded major search engines with automated searches."
"The latest incarnation of the troublesome virus uses search engines on infected computers to look for more e-mail addresses in order to keep replicating itself."
"For other people, although the main Google page was able to load, they reported seeing a "server error" message when trying to conduct a search."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/07/26/google.down/index.html
Google search engine hit hard by new virus
July 27, 2004
"Google was hit hard by a brand new kind of virus that rendered the site inaccessible for several hours yesterday."
"Those who tried to use the Google search engine were greeted by an error message stating that the service was not available."
" "The Google search engine experienced slowness for a short period of time earlier today because of the MyDoom virus, which flooded major search engines with automated searches," said Debbie Frost, international public relations manager for Google. "
"The virus behind the outage is the latest version of a past predator known as MyDoom. First detected early yesterday morning, MyDoom scours the Web for e-mail addresses using search engines run by Google, Yahoo Inc., Lycos Inc. and Altavista. The virus then attempts to e-mail itself to all the addresses it finds."
"But the impact wasn't limited to search engines. A spokesperson for the anti-virus company Sophos PLC said the virus also installs a back door on an infected computer, which can be used to install all kinds of other malicious software. Ultimately, private files could be viewed or destroyed."
Google recovers after virus hits
July 26, 2004
"Net search engine Google appeared to resume normal service in the UK around 2000BST after a virus crippled its search engine."
"Previous versions of MyDoom have launched distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) on websites like Microsoft and software firm SCO."
"Infected computers are used to bombard target websites with bogus data packages that utterly paralyse the sites."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3927963.stm
Return of Mydoom plagues computers
A more destructive virus hits tens of thousands of PCs
July 27, 2004
"While both McAfee and Symantec are offering fixes for paying customers, the firms are also offering free virus removal tools that can be downloaded from their Web pages."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/27/VIRUS.TMP
Web Worm Spreads, Slowing Online Search Sites
July 26, 2004
"A fast-spreading computer worm that uses Web search sites to find victims made a broad assault on computers worldwide on Monday"
"The spread of the worm, a variant of an Internet attack called MyDoom, was blamed for sporadic outages and slowdowns on Google -- the most popular search engine -- as well as the search sites of Yahoo and AltaVista."
"The new MyDoom worm searches victims' computers as well as Internet search engines for e-mail addresses, and propagates itself by sending an infected file to the addresses it finds"
" "Those search requests have been overloading the search engines," said Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technology for Keynote Systems Inc., which measures Web site performance. "
"The worm, Taylor said, was believed to be slowing performance on Google, AltaVista, a business of Overture Services Inc., and the Web site of Yahoo Inc."
"Computer security software vendors sent warnings to customers about the worm, which has been called MyDoom.m or MyDoom.o."
"Web site performance slowed broadly on Monday, suggesting the possibility that a virus or other Internet attack may be causing problems, according to Keynote."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5776601
Google Groups 2
Groups 2 Beta
May 12, 2004
"Create and join searchable discussion groups and mailing lists"
http://groups-beta.google.com/
"Users can easily create their own announcement lists, restricted mailing lists, and public web discussions in a matter of minutes."
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/google-labs-groups2/browse_thread/thread/d960df136d1ea84f
Google Patents
Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity (6,725,259)
April 20, 2004
"A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The search engine obtains an initial set of relevant documents by matching a user's search terms to an index of a corpus. A re-ranking component in the search engine then refines the initially returned document rankings so that documents that are frequently cited in the initial set of relevant documents are preferred over documents that are less frequently cited within the initial set."
Information extraction from a database (6,678,681)
January 13, 2004
"Techniques for extracting information from a database are provided. A database such as the Web is searched for occurrences of tuples of information. The occurrences of the tuples of information that were found in the database are analyzed to identify a pattern in which the tuples of information were stored. Additional tuples of information can then be extracted from the database utilizing the pattern. This process can be repeated with the additional tuples of information, if desired."
Google IPO
Google shares rise in debut
August 19, 2004
"Shares in Google rose $15.01, or 17.7 percent, to open at $100 in the company's public debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange."
"The jump was a surprise, given the initial $85 price of the shares and the unusual style of the sale. IPOs are typically priced at a discount in order to give buyers a first-day "pop," but Google used a rare Dutch-auction format that aimed to maximize the money going into the company's own pockets instead."
"On Wednesday, Google set its long-awaited initial public offering at $85 a share, well below the company's original range of $108 to $135. Google and selling shareholders raised $1.66 billion by floating out 19.6 million shares."
http://news.com.com/Google+shares+rise+in+debut/2100-1024_3-5316026.html
Google Shares Begin Trading on Nasdaq
August 19, 2004
"Shortly before noon today, Google Inc. stock began trading under the ticker symbol GOOG on the Nasdaq stock market. The initial offering price was $85 a share after the company yesterday slashed the price and size of its offering because its unusual auction for shares produced a weaker-than-expected demand from investors."
"When it opened, initial buyers paid about $100 for stock but that price fell a bit and the stock was trading in the high 90s within several minutes. By 1 p.m., however, it was back over $100 a share."
"While Google's roughly $1.7 billion IPO still ranks among the biggest technology offerings ever, the difficulty the online giant experienced is a sign of the troubled times for technology companies that want to go public and attract capital."
"Google reduced both the price and size of its offering by about 25 percent. The IPO price plunged from an estimated $121.50 to $85 per share, the bottom of its revised range, while the number of shares dropped from about 25.7 million to 19.6 million shares. The result cut Google's total stock market value from more than $30 billion to roughly $23 billion"
"The thing that hurt them the most was the spurning of Wall Street," said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, an online publication that monitors the search industry. "If this had been a traditionally run IPO where investment banks were going to cash in, they would have been supportive of the higher price, and you would have seen less criticism. They felt locked out of the process, so there was no incentive for them to move things along."
"Brin and Page, who founded the company in 1998 when they were in their mid-twenties, are each slated to sell stock in the IPO worth about $41 million. On paper, their remaining holdings will be worth about $3.2 billion each."
"Even though Google is changing from being a private company to having stock that is traded publicly and owned by thousands of investors, the founders will retain control over all major decisions because they own a special class of stock."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15325-2004Aug19.html
Google jumps 17% in debut
August 19, 2004
"Google stock jumped 17 percent in its long-awaited but rocky debut Thursday and the No. 1 Internet search engine later extended its gains."
http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/19/technology/goog/
Google Inc. Requests Effectiveness of IPO Registration Statement
August 18, 2004
"Google Inc. announced today that it will file an amendment to the registration statement for its initial public offering to change the estimated offering price range and the number of shares to be sold in the offering. The offering price is now expected to be between $85 and $95 per share. As originally planned, Google expects to sell 14,142,135 shares of Class A common stock in the offering. However, in view of this new price range, the selling shareholders are reducing the shares they expect to sell to 5,462,917 shares, yielding a total offering of 19,605,052 shares. In addition, the selling shareholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase 2,940,757 additional shares of Class A common stock at the initial public offering price to cover over-allotments."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/reg2_statement.html
Google Inc. Prices Initial Public Offering Of Class A Common Stock
August 18, 2004
"Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today the initial public offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock, 14,142,135 of which are being sold by Google and 5,462,917 of which are being sold by certain stockholders of Google, at a price of $85.00 per share. The selling stockholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 2,940,757 shares at the initial public offering price."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ipo.html
Google's Initial Public Offering Information
(August 19, 2004)
Google Inc. Files Registration Statement with the SEC for an Initial Public Offering
April 29, 2004
"Google Inc. announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock."
"Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston will act as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/reg_statement.html
Google Files to Sell Shares, Seeks to Raise $2.72 Bln
April 29, 2004
"Google Inc., which runs the world's most-used Internet search engine, said it plans to raise as much as $2.72 billion by selling shares through an electronic auction that will make billionaires of its founders and give the company more cash to compete against Yahoo! Inc."
"The sale, the biggest initial public offering by a U.S. Web company, may give six-year-old Google a market value between $20 billion and $25 billion, Renaissance Capital, which tracks IPOs, said in a report. The IPO, coming four years after the Internet- stock bubble burst, would give founders Sergey Brin, 30, and Larry Page, 31, each a stake of more than $3 billion."
"Google today disclosed its earnings and revenue for the first time, showing that in the first quarter of 2004, the company's net income more than doubled to $64 million. In 2003, profit rose 6 percent to $105.6 million on revenue that more than doubled to $961.9 million. In 2002, net income had increased 14- fold to $99.7 million as sales rose fourfold to $347.8 million."
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ata_NlKTfUvo&refer=us
Google Files For $2.7B Public Offering
April 29, 2004
"The executives admit that, with total assets of $1.08 billion, the main reason to go public was that, under SEC rules, Google's size had forced it to open its books today, going public or not."
http://www.internetnews.com/fina-news/article.php/3347391
Google IPO sets stage for Web search war
April 29, 2004
"The question is whether Google, despite heady growth that more than doubled revenue to nearly a billion dollars in 2003, can challenge the financial clout of its larger peers. Yahoo had $1.6 billion in revenue and Microsoft had $32.2 billion in revenue in its latest fiscal year."
http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/newswire/2004/04/29/rtr1354332.html
Google files long-awaited IPO
April 29, 2004
"Google will offer its shares in a so-called "Dutch auction," in which public bidding determines share price and anyone can bid for shares. The underwriters thus cannot reserve blocks of stock for friends, family, and clients, as often happens with other IPOs."
http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19205601
Google Inc. files for IPO
April 30, 2004
"Google has said that the price of its IPO will be determined through an auction designed to give the general public a better chance to buy its stock before the shares begin trading."
"This is most likely to happen late summer or early autumn. IPO shares traditionally have been restricted to an elite group picked by the investment bankers handling the deal."
http://www.ndtv.com/money/showbusinessstory.asp?slug=Google+Inc.+files+for+IPO&id=18838
Google Files Long-Awaited I.P.O.
April 29, 2004
"Google said it will issue two classes of stock. The Class A shares, which will be offered to the public, will have one vote per share. Each Class B share will have 10 votes. The Class B shares will be held by managers and insiders."
"While rare, a number of other companies share the two-class structure. In its filing, Google noted that those companies include The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company."
"Due to the two-class stock structure, "new investors will fully share in Google's long-term growth, but will have less influence over its strategic decisions than they would at other public companies," the company said in its filing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/business/29CND-GOOG.html
Gmail
Gmail
(April 1, 2004)
Google's free e-mail has a catch, but so what
April 25, 2004
"Gmail will give you an amazing 1 gigabyte. Oh, and there's one more thing, which has sent some folks into an absolute tizzy: The ads you get with the e-mail will be based on the words contained in the e-mail."
"That doesn't mean they will have a small army of spies personally reading every message for the latest tidbit about Uncle Bob's operation. The ad matching is all done, as you might imagine, with computers."
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Technology/03TechTECHCOL042504.htm
Is Gmail Safe?
April 21, 2004
"The public outcry over Google's plan to have targeted text ads appear alongside your free e-mail proves a point I made some months ago: Google is now officially a target. Individuals, public privacy advocacy groups and even states are nearly apoplectic over the fact that Google's completely automated technology will be "reading" mail received in its still-in-beta Gmail free e-mail service."
"Some say that this will lead to our privacy going straight out the window. The fact is that this will have no impact on privacy. Google has done its best to explain that it'll adhere to privacy rules and that there are other applications that do this (in fact they have to) to work. Antivirus software comes to mind. It reads the message and subject line and even goes as deep as looking at attachments."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1571491,00.asp
News: Legislator Seek to Block Google Gmail
April 23, 2004
"Liz Figueroa, a California state senator, is seeking to block Google's Gmail because it's an intrusion to Internet users' privacy she said. Thursday, she said that it should be illegal for any company to scan the text of its customers' email and display relevant advertising even if the customers agree to the policy."
http://www.overclockersclub.com/?read=8270010
Google Gets the Message, Launches Gmail
April 1, 2004
"Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail - a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user."
"Gmail comes with 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of free storage"
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html
FREE MAIL SERVICE 1 GIGABYTE MAIL BOX FROM GOOGLE
April 2, 2004
"The inspiration to the 'Gmail' came, according to the Google homepage, from a message from a user of the search motor who complained about not being able to file messages in his mail box because it had too little memory."
"The objective is that nobody should be forced to cancel or to save the e-mail messages on his own computer, and to make it possible to search the 500,000 pages of e-mails that the service will offer every single user in a simple way."
Google Gmail banks on goodwill
April 2, 2004
"Coll, president of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, believes Google is trying to use registration for its e-mail service to gain something that Yahoo and Microsoft already have - information on its users. The information could be used to tailor search results to a person's interests or demographics, making the search engine that much more efficient, she said."
http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/8333818.htm
Google launches test of e-mail
April 2, 2004
"So why does the company that's far ahead of everybody else in the fast-growing Internet search industry suddenly want to branch out into the cutthroat business of free e-mail service, pitting itself against some of the technology industry's biggest players along the way? Because one of the few areas of the Internet more popular than search engines these days is e-mail, Google executives know. To be a long-term player in the still-evolving Internet business, they know, Google has to offer e-mail along with search capabilities and myriad other services if it doesn't want to be left behind by Web "portals" run by Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN service, America Online and others."
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0404/02gmail.html
Google Launches Gmail
April 2, 2004
"E-Mail is an important offering for portals, drawing a group of users who visit with a high degree of frequency and spend a large amount of time. The average visitor to the E-Mail category visited during 13 of the 29 days in February and spent approximately 4 hours over the course of the month."
"E-mail is a critical and time-intensive application, capturing significant share of mind among consumers -- thus Gmail stands to offer greater value to companies that invest marketing dollars with Google."
http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/EplpAEkkuunqlhAeJZ.php
Some think Google mail part of April Fool's lunacy
April 2, 2004
"Privately held Google had Web message boards buzzing Thursday over whether a new e-mail product, announced on Wednesday and meant to challenge Yahoo and Microsoft, was actually an April Fool's joke."
"Google's free e-mail service called Gmail, which will offer significantly more storage than Yahoo or MSN, "is not a hoax," said Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's vice president of products."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2481257
Google Not Fooling Around: Launches Gmail
April 1, 2004
"Coming on the heels of Froogle, they've done a great job marketing and tapping into the pulse of what people want," Yankee analyst Laura DiDio told NewsFactor. Though some may be hesitant to switch from one webmail account to another, DiDio does not see this as a significant obstacle.
"One of the things we've learned with the breakup of the Ma Bells is that switching can be tiresome. Most people will keep what they have and add on. What we will see is one webmail account achieving greater preeminence. One account will be used more than the other. Users will be proactively using, not proactively switching."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20040401/tc_nf/23589
Google Says Gmail's For Real
April 2, 2004
" Google will support the new email service with AdWords, the same contextual advertising program it deploys on its search engine and publisher sites. "When users sign up," notes Salar Kamangar, director, product management, Google, "they have to sign an agreement stating they are willing to accept ads." "
"Google says Gmail users won't be receiving intrusive pop-ups or page- stealing rich media productions, but only text ads, which will appear along the sides of pages as they currently do on the Google search engine. Ads will be served based on email message content. An automated program crawls the content of a sender's message and then serves the appropriate ads based on keywords that advertisers bid on. Advertisers will not have to pay extra to market on Gmail; their keyword buys will include the new email service."
http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=244896
Gmail screenshots
(April, 2004)
http://www.fury.com/article/1990.php
Google's `Gmail' raises concerns
April 2, 2004
"Google -- the company whose founders vowed to ``do no evil'' with their products -- is raising concerns about privacy with a new e-mail service that will include targeted advertising based on scans of private e-mail messages."
" Google officials, including co-founder Larry Page, said such concerns are unfounded, noting that company computers, not people, will be analyzing the e-mail messages and matching them to ads in a database. The company posted a privacy policy on its Web site Wednesday night that promises that ``No human reads your mail to target ads or other information without your consent.'' "
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/8337390.htm
Google Responds to Gmail Privacy Concerns
April 2, 2004
"We're concerned that users of Gmail, who must give Google their names to sign up, may have their names correlated with the search terms they type in when searching. This can be done through cookies and IP addresses," Dixon said.
"In response, Google says what's drawing concern is what computers are capable of doing, not what the company does in reality. "We pride ourselves in protecting users' data and holding ourselves to he highest standard," said Wayne Rosing, VP of engineering for Google."
" "We do not keep that data in correlated form, it's separated in various ways and we have policies inside the company that do not allow that kind of correlation to happen. We consider any program or programming that correlates user data with user identity to be a violation of trust and we do not do that," said Rosing. "
" "I have been here a long time and I have no knowledge of that kind of situation [correlation] ever happening. It does not happen and every employee of Google knows they cannot do this. We have extensive monitoring of our people," Rosing said. "
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3335481
Yahoo randomly gives more email space
April 5, 2004
"Yahoo sent emails to some randomly selected users offering 100MB of free storage space - the day before Google announced its 1GB plans"
"Yahoo allots free mail subscribers 6MB of storage, offering 100MB for $49.99 (£27.54)."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39150911,00.htm
Spymac follows Google on free gig of storage
April 5, 2004
"Spymac, a Web hosting company for Macintosh aficionados, is giving away e-mail accounts that come with 1 gigabyte of storage, mimicking a move search leader Google made last week."
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5185461.html
Google's Mail Plans Call For Serious Storage
April 2, 2004
"Let's say Google gets one million users. One million users with a storage allocation of 1 GB each will push the storage needs of the infrastructure required to support GMail beyond the range of mere terabytes, into the range of petabytes. A petabyte is one quadrillion bytes, or 1,024 TB."
" But then Wayne Rosing, Google's vice president for engineering, told us it would take more than 1 PB to get the job done. "It will take many petabytes," he says. "The infrastructure is quite amazing." Google has a great deal of expertise in large-scale distributed computing, he notes. "We've done the same math ourselves, and we don't even flinch at the thought of 10 million or even 100 million users." " "petabyte-sized computing environments are not terribly uncommon, at least in the world of government and high-end corporate computing."
http://www.forbes.com/technology/personaltech/2004/04/02/cx_ah_0402tentech.html
Numeric Range Search
Google Introduces Personalized Search Services; Site Enhancements Emphasize Efficiency
March 29, 2004
"A new number range (numrange) advanced search command enables users to specify that results contain numbers in a range they set. Users can conduct a numrange search by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces. For example, a user looking for information about DVD players between $250 and $350 or technical information on high capacity batteries, can conduct a search for [DVD player $250..$350] or [50..1000 wh/kg battery]."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/enhancements.html
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Google Interface Enhancements
Google Introduces Personalized Search Services; Site Enhancements Emphasize Efficiency
March 29, 2004
"The Google homepages and search results pages worldwide have been modified to include links across the top of the search box, which directly connect users to other Google services including Froogle. These links provide a faster, simpler search experience."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/enhancements.html
Google Personalized Web Search
Google Introduces Personalized Search Services; Site Enhancements Emphasize Efficiency
March 29, 2004
"Get personalized search results based on your interests"
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/enhancements.html
http://labs.google.com/personalized
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=google.public.labs.personalized
Google Local
Google Local
(March 17, 2004)
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#local
Google local directory launched
March 18, 2004
"SEARCH engine leader Google has launched a beta version of a new system designed to make it easier for people to find things closer to their homes."
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8999836%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
Google Goes Local
March 17, 2004
"Google has launched a beta version of a service that lets users conduct Internet searches with geographical parameters. The new service allows users to query Google, for example, for restaurants in and around a particular city or zip code, the company says."
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115235,00.asp
Google rolls out local search on Google.com
March 17, 2004
"Google Inc., the world's No.1 Web search provider, launched Google Local late on Tuesday, joining rival Yahoo Inc. in staking out local search as a new frontier for growth."
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2004/03/17/rtr1301505.html
Google Connects Searchers With Local Information
March 17, 2004
"For example, users searching for a pizza restaurant in their neighborhood simply enter the keyword [pizza], and either a zip code or the name of a town or city [Palo Alto] into the search field to receive a comprehensive list of local pizza restaurants. Each result is accompanied by a phone number, street address, and a list of related websites such as those of local pizza restaurant, store reviews, and related information."
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/local.html
Google Europe's Top Search Engine
Google Europe's Top Search Engine
March 16, 2004
"Over 55 million Europeans use Google as their search engine of choice according to a report released by Nielsen/NetRatings."
"Top European Search Engines
* Google: Audience of 55 million
* MSN search: 27 million
* Yahoo search: 12 million
* Google image search: 10 million
* AOL search: 5 million"
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=371
Google: Five out of ten Europeans prefer it
March 17, 2004
"Google also scoops the 'most number of pages viewed' prize with an average of 52, and the 'most amount of time spent on the site' award, with each person spending more than 15 minutes per month on its pages. Rivals Yahoo and MSN flailed in comparison with seven and four minutes respectively."
http://www.e-consultancy.com/newsfeatures/154818/google-five-out-of-ten-europeans-prefer-it.html
Google tops European search channels with 55m users
March 17, 2004
"According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Google has more than twice the market share of its nearest rival, MSN Search, with a unique audience of 55.6m and 47.3% reach, compared with MSN's 27.2m. Google has enjoyed several years at the top of the search market and was widely reported to be preparing a partial flotation earlier this year."
http://www.brandrepublic.com/dmbulletin/daily_news_story.cfm?articleID=205027&Origin=DM17032004
Google Updates Google Directory Listings
Google Updates Google Directory Listings
March 15, 2004
"Google has recently updated the Google Directory listings, which use the Netscape Open Directory Project (DMOZ) as their base of information."
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=357
Google Updates Google Directory
March 16, 2004
"Google has recently updated their Google directory database with the new DMOZ entries."
http://www.rugles.com/weblog/archives/000070.html
Froogle Wireless
Froogle Wireless
(February 25, 2004)
"Search the web for products from your cell phone"
" To use Froogle on your cell phone, just point your phone's browser to http://wml.froogle.com/ "
http://labs.google.com/frooglewml.html
Google Indexes 4,285,199,774 Web Pages
(February 17, 2004)
Google Indexes "4,285,199,774 web pages".
Search Engine Watch Awards for Google
4th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards
February 6, 2004
"Outstanding Search Service
Winner: Google"
"Best News Search Engine
Winner: Google News"
"Best Image Search Engine
Winner: Google Images"
"Best Design
Winner: Google"
"Most Webmaster Friendly Search Provider
Winner: Google"
"Best Paid Placement Service
Winners: Google AdWords"
"Best Search Toolbar
Winners: Google & Groowe"
"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"
http://searchenginewatch.com/awards/article.phpr/3309841
http://www.google.com/press/awards.html
The Global Brand of the Year
Google Gets Lucky: Announcing 2003 Brand of the Year Results
February 2, 2004
"The Global Brand of the Year goes to Google, which narrowly beat out Apple for the second year in the row as the brand that had the most impact on our readers in 2003. -- Third place finisher automaker MINI is a surprise new entrant into the top five, revving up from last year's eleventh place finish and knocking third place holder Coca-Cola into fourth."
http://www.brandchannel.com/start1.asp?id=195
http://www.google.com/press/awards.html
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