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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." http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,725,259.WKU.&OS=PN/6,725,259&RS=PN/6,725,259
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." http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,678,681.WKU.&OS=PN/6,678,681&RS=PN/6,678,681
Detecting duplicate and near-duplicate files (6,658,423) December 2, 2003 "Improved duplicate and near-duplicate detection techniques may assign a number of fingerprints to a given document by (i) extracting parts from the document, (ii) assigning the extracted parts to one or more of a predetermined number of lists, and (iii) generating a fingerprint from each of the populated lists. Two documents may be considered to be near-duplicates if any one of their fingerprints match." http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,658,423.WKU.&OS=PN/6,658,423&RS=PN/6,658,423
Detecting query-specific duplicate documents (6,615,209) September 2, 2003 "An improved duplicate detection technique that uses query-relevant information to limit the portion(s) of documents to be compared for similarity is described. Before comparing two documents for similarity, the content of these documents may be condensed based on the query. In one embodiment, query-relevant information or text (also referred to as "snippets") is extracted from the documents and only the extracted snippets, rather than the entire documents, are compared for purposes of determining similarity." http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,615,209.WKU.&OS=PN/6,615,209&RS=PN/6,615,209
Methods and apparatus for using a modified index to provide search results in response to an ambiguous search query (6,529,903) March 4, 2003 "A system allows a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive potentially disambiguated search results. In one implementation, a search engine's conventional alphanumeric index is translated into a second index that is ambiguated in the same manner as which the user's input is ambiguated. The user's ambiguous search query is compared to this ambiguated index, and the corresponding documents are provided to the user as search results." http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,529,903.WKU.&OS=PN/6,529,903&RS=PN/6,529,903
Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity (6,526,440) February 25, 2003 "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." http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,526,440.WKU.&OS=PN/6,526,440&RS=PN/6,526,440
Google IPO
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 https://gmail.google.com/
Google's free e-mail has a catch, but so what 25 April 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 23 Apr 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 "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 Rome, Italy, April 2 "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." http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200404021305-1077-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia
Google Gmail banks on goodwill Fri, Apr. 02, 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 04/02/04 "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 Friday, 2 April 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, 1:48AM "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 Thu Apr 1, 5:05 PM ET "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?Create told NewsFactor?Create. Though some may be hesitant to switch from one webmail account to another, DiDio?Create 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 Friday, April 02, 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 http://www.fury.com/article/1990.php
Google's `Gmail' raises concerns Fri, Apr. 02, 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 05, 2004, 16:05 BST "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 (Ј27.54)." http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39150911,00.htm
Spymac follows Google on free gig of storage April 5, 2004, 6:23 PM PDT "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 04.02.04, 10:00 AM ET "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 http://local.google.com/lochp 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 Reuters, 03.17.04 "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 3/16/2004 "Over 55 million Europeans use Google as their search engine of choice according to a report released by Nielsen/NetRatings?Create." "Top European Search Engines
Google: Five out of ten Europeans prefer it 17 March 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 17-03-2004 "According to Nielsen//NetRatings?Create, 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 3/15/2004 "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
Google (February 17, 2004) Google Indexes "4,285,199,774 web pages". http://www.google.com/
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?Create URL Investigator Second Place: Google Calculator & AllTheWeb?Create 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 2-Feb-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
Google Fan Logos
More Google: Fan Logos (December 25, 2003) http://www.google.com/customlogos.html
Google Book Search
Google Introduces Book Searches December 17, 2003 "Google has launched an experimental program that indexes excerpts of popular books" http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3290351
Google Print http://services.google.com/print/info
Example: http://print.google.com/print/doc?isbn=0385476876
Travel Conditions
Google Web Search Features (December 11, 2003) " See delays and weather conditions at a particular airport. -- type the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." " http://www.google.com/help/features.html#travel
Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=sfo+airport
Search By Number
Google Web Search Features (December 11, 2003) "Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a variety of online databases." http://www.google.com/help/features.html#number
Examples:
FedEx?Create tracking numbers http://www.google.com/search?q=fedex+999999999999
Patent numbers http://www.google.com/search?q=patent+5123123
FAA airplane registration numbers http://www.google.com/search?q=n199ua
FCC equipment IDs http://www.google.com/search?q=fcc+B4Z-34009-PIR
Google Filter
Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again December 1, 2003 " Specifically, Google Watch's Daniel Brandt discovered that including a made-up word as part of your search may cause Google to show radically different results. Since his original post at WebmasterWorld?Create.com, hundreds if not thousands of site owners have tried this test. Based on their reports, the "filter test," as it has become known, seems to show how Google previously had ranked things.
Here's an example of the filter test in action and why it works.
Search for laptop rentals. You'll get thousands of matches, telling you that Google knows of plenty of web pages that contain both of those words on them.
Search for laptop rentals dhdhdhdhdh. You'll get no matches, telling you that Google knows of no web pages that contain all three words. We already know from step 1 that there are plenty of pages that contain the words laptop and rentals. So, it's really dhdhdhdhdh that doesn't exist on any of these pages.
Search for laptop rentals -dhdhdhdhdh. This should bring back exactly the same results as the search for laptop rentals. That's because we are asking for all pages that contain both laptop and rentals on them (which we know exist from step 1) but commanding Google to exclude any pages that also contain the word dhdhdhdhdh with the -dhdhdhdhdh part of our query. Since we know from step 2 that there are no pages with laptop and rentals on them that also contain the word dhdhdhdhdh, we should get the same results as step 1. Instead we get much different listings.
Why does this happen? One popular theory is that Google is using a new "filter" to prescreen results for "money words," searches where it hopes to sell its AdWords paid listings. You can understand the popularity of this theory by looking at the before and after for that search on laptop rentals. Before, you get mostly businesses that appear to specialize in laptop rentals. After, these are all gone -- replaced by mostly university web sites that talk about laptop rental programs for students.
Ah ha! Well, more like hmmm. The complication is that there are plenty of exceptions. There are some people who DID run ads before the change who still found they lost "free" rankings. There are also people who maintained their top free rankings after the change despite the fact that they never bought ads. Moreover, the changes have had positive and negative impacts on all types of sites. "Big" sites did not necessarily trump over "mom and pops." " http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3114531
Google Florida Update
Florida Google Dance Resources December 5, 2003 "This page summarizes articles from Search Engine Watch and resources from elsewhere that pertain to major changes to Google's search algorithm that happened in November and December 2003. "Florida" is the nickname that's been given to this particular wave of changes known as the Google Dance." http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3285661
Google Dance 2003
Google Dance 2003 (November 29, 2003) http://www.google.com/googledance2003/
Google Deskbar
Google Deskbar (November 6, 2003) "Search using Google, even when your browser isn't running" "Preview search results in a small inset window that closes automatically" http://toolbar.google.com/deskbar/index.html
Google Labs: Search by Location
Search by Location (September 22, 2003) http://labs.google.com/location
Google Definitions
Google Web Search Features (September 20, 2003) "To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results." http://www.google.com/help/features.html#definitions
Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=define:World+Wide+Web
Google Toolbar 2.0
Google Toolbar (August 13, 2003) Google Toolbar 2.0 has new options: Popup Blocker, AutoFill?Create, BlogThis?Create, Country Search. http://toolbar.google.com/
Google Calculator
Google Calculator (August 13, 2003) "To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the expression you'd like evaluated in the search box and hit the Enter key or click the Google Search button. The calculator can evaluate mathematical expressions involving basic arithmetic (5+2*2 or 2^20), more complicated math (sine(30 degrees) or e^(i pi)+1), units of measure and conversions (100 miles in kilometers or 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories), and physical constants (1 a.u./c or G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2). You can also experiment with other numbering systems, including hexadecimal and binary." http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator
Google Synonym Search
Advanced Search Made Easy (August 7, 2003) "You may want to search not only for a particular keyword, but also for its synonyms. Indicate a search for both by placing the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of the keyword." http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
Google News Alerts
Google News Alerts (BETA) (August 5, 2003) "Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify." http://www.google.com/newsalerts
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