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Ga Ga for Google

"Google is this era's transformational computing platform." - Stephen Arnold

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Or, in this case, the brightly colored company with the anything-but-evil ethos taking over every aspect of the web. Google is the 800-pound gorilla of the Internet game, and the tech industry is running scared. Traditional media companies (think Viacom) are suing 'em and new media companies (think Yahoo!) are trying to just keep up. And with Google's technology edge, even the once-invincible Microsoft can't seem to get a leg up. No one seems to know yet whether Google is friend or foe—or perhaps, as one pundit called them—a “frenemy.”

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July 2008
- After Yahoo, Microsoft Amps Up Search Effort
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 24, 08 4:21 PM CDT
  
  CEO Steve Ballmer is spinning Microsoft’s failure to acquire Yahoo expertly, telling analysts today that, unburdened by the search giant, the company can be more frisky and adaptable in its fight with nemesis Google, the Wall Street Journal reports. Actions might speak louder than words, though: Microsoft announced yesterday it would give the leader of its online efforts the boot, and restructure. More »
- Google Unveils Wikipedia Rival
  
  newser | CNET | Jul 24, 08 4:30 AM CDT
  
  Could Wikipedia's assassin be lurking behind a Knol? Google opened up its online encyclopedia with articles—or "units of knowledge" Google calls "Knols"—to the public today, featuring major differences from its well-established rival. The pieces are written by experts and their names are highlighted, in marked contrast to the anonymous writers of Wikipedia, CNET reports. Google writers, if they choose to, will get a cut of advertising revenue. More »
- Google's Walking Map Gives True Step-By-Step Directions
  
  newser | Wired | Jul 23, 08 3:45 PM CDT
  
  Google unveiled a new feature to its Maps site yesterday, Wired reports: walking directions. Users can now plot true step-by-step directions, taking into account one-way streets and a growing database of pedestrian pathways. The walking option will appear for distances less than 6.2 miles. More »
- Tech Firms Buoyed by Demand Abroad
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 18, 08 8:53 AM CDT
  
  The tech sector keeps rolling even as the overall economy continues to flail, the Wall Street Journal reports. Four of tech’s giants, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Nokia, posted quarterly results yesterday, riding high on developed nations’ need for cost-saving technologies and emerging economies’ demand for infrastructure upgrades as the Internet and cell phones enjoy wider use in the developing world. More »
- Google Agrees to Give Viacom Encrypted Data
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 15, 08 7:45 AM CDT
  
  In a deal reached last night, Google has agreed to hand over YouTube user data Viacom had demanded in its copyright lawsuit, but only after replacing user names and IP addresses with unique substitutes to protect users’ privacy, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move will allow Viacom and other plaintiffs to explore statistics without learning who’s viewing what. More »
- Google Refuses to Hand Over Employee Data
  
  newser | CNET | Jul 13, 08 9:17 AM CDT
  
  Google is refusing to turn over records of content its employees at YouTube have uploaded, CNET reports. Two weeks ago, a judge ordered the company to disclose a huge set of user data, along with information on employees, as part of Viacom’s copyright claim. If workers uploaded copyright-protected material, the video-sharing site's protection under federal law could be in jeopardy. More »
- Parents Not Ga Ga Over Google Day Care
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 5, 08 2:51 PM CDT
  
  So much for Google the good. The search giant announced 2 months ago a plan to raise in-house day care prices by 75%—to about $57,000 a year for parents with two kids. Some workers wept when the news broke in secret focus group meetings. Now the company that Fortune has twice called the "best to work for" faces parents bent on taking their kids elsewhere. More »
- Google Must Turn Over YouTube Records: Judge
  
  newser | Wired | Jul 4, 08 3:46 AM CDT
  
  A judge has ordered Google to give Viacom records of all videos ever watched on YouTube, including users’ names and IP addresses, Wired reports. Viacom is seeking the data to bolster its $1 billion lawsuit against Google for allowing copyrighted Viacom clips on YouTube. The media giant believes the data will show that copyrighted clips draw more views than user-created content. More »
- Feds Probing Google-Yahoo Deal
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 2, 08 9:24 AM CDT
  
  Google’s agreement to provide Yahoo with advertising for some of its searches in the US and Canada has prompted the Justice Department to launch a formal antitrust investigation into the deal, the Washington Post reports. "They don't do it without having identified significant issues," one lawyer said of the action, which goes beyond the voluntary review the search giant expected. More »
- Coming Soon: Your Medical Info on the Net
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Jul 1, 08 8:05 PM CDT
  
  Both Google and Microsoft are working on programs that allow patients to store their medical information online, reports the MIT Technology Review . Google Health was released in May, 7 months after Microsoft's HealthVault. Both programs will eventually gather test results and info from hospitals and share them with doctors and other health care providers. More »
June 2008
- Google Teams Up With Family Guy Creator
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 30, 08 3:43 AM CDT
  
  In a unique advertising move, Google and Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane are creating an ad-driven internet cartoon series, the New York Times reports. Using its AdSense service, Google will place two-minute animated "webisodes" of McFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy on websites likely to draw the animator's target audience. Blended into the clips will be various ads. More »
- When Is A Facebook Friend Just A Friend?
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Jun 27, 08 8:12 AM CDT
  
  There’s a movement among some social Web services, from MySpace and Yahoo to Plaxo, to let users share data, the MIT Technology Review reports. Take Google’s new Friend Connect, a service that lets users transport profiles and connections among sites. But Facebook, for one, is swimming against the tide, working to control its users’ data and arguing that control protects their privacy. More »
- Google's Data Avalanche Trumps Scientific Method
  
  newser | Wired | Jun 24, 08 6:38 PM CDT
  
  The data avalanche Google made possible has buried the scientific method, Chris Anderson argues in Wired , begging the question, “What can science learn from Google?” We’re in the “Petabyte Age,” he argues, when massive amounts of data obviate need for models and theories—the imperfect, if useful, imaginings of data-starved scientists. The petabyte revolution that lets Google conquer advertising is transforming science, he says. More »
- Google Plans Service to Track Surfers' Activity
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 24, 08 12:11 PM CDT
  
  A new Google service will track web users’ activity to help companies target ads, raising concerns about conflict of interest, the Wall Street Journal reports. The free tool will use server data to track hits, a plan that threatens current industry giants comScore and Nielsen Online. Those paid services employ user panels and surveys, methods that can be ineffective. More »
- Lawyer Uses Google to Judge Obscenity
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 24, 08 9:13 AM CDT
  
  A defense lawyer in a Florida obscenity case is trying out a new technique for determining those elusive “community standards” courts have been fighting over for years: what locals search for on Google. The resourceful attorney compared the frequency of local searches for words like “orgy” and “apple pie,” and found that searches for the former were more common, the New York Times reports. That behavior, he argues, constitutes evidence of the sort of standard a 1973 Supreme Court decision called for. More »
- Guess Who Has the Most Trusted Brand in America?
  
  newser | Advertising Age | Jun 23, 08 1:56 PM CDT
  
  Google is officially the most trusted company in America, Advertising Age reports. The search giant’s rise is all the more incredible because it spends essentially nothing on advertising, and all the sweeter because it’s taking the top spot from rival Microsoft. Oil companies bring up the rear in a new poll, with Halliburton coming in dead last. The top 10: More »
- Google Phones Running Behind Schedule
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 23, 08 11:15 AM CDT
  
  It turns out revolutionizing the mobile-phone industry isn’t as easy as Google thought it would be. The first phones to bear the search giant’s much-anticipated Android platform won’t ship until the fourth quarter, the Wall Street Journal reports, because carriers are having trouble customizing the software. Many despair of having Android offerings at all in 2008. More »
- Tech Firms to Fix Monster They Created
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 14, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  Google, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM are partnering are on a new initiative to help workers distracted by emails and instant messages improve their productivity, the New York Times reports. The Information Overload Research Group, a nonprofit launching next month, will devise cultural and technological solutions to reduce the digital deluge that’s costing firms $650 billion a year in productivity. More »
- Yahoo and Google: It's All Up to Yang
  
  newser | CNET | Jun 13, 08 10:08 AM CDT
  
  As Yahoo and Google prepare for a new search-ad deal, it’s all up to CEO Jerry Yang, writes Charles Cooper for CNET. Will Yang be the next Steve Jobs, pulling a struggling company back to the spotlight—or will he fade like his Yahoo predecessors? The afreement "may turn out to be a clever move if it fosters the two companies' respective strength in search and display advertising," Cooper writes. More »
- Yahoo Strikes Deal With Google on Search Ads
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 12, 08 8:10 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo struck a deal today with Google to display its rival's search ads, just hours after announcing the end of talks with Microsoft on a possible merger, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal with Google, which still faces months of federal scrutiny, could bring in $800 million a year for Yahoo and have a profound effect on Internet advertising. More »

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"With his unruly hair dipping across his forehead, Douglas Merrill walks up to the lectern set up in a ballroom of the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa, looking like a slightly rumpled university professor about to start a lecture. In fact, he is here on this April morning to talk about his work as director...

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Google is #1 on the list.

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"Google Inc., the world's No. 1 Internet search provider, plans to begin testing a free search-based e-mail product called Gmail, as it battles rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN."

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The Birth of Google
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"Larry thought Sergey was arrogant. Sergey thought Larry was obnoxious. But their obsession with backlinks just might be the start of something big."

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"Key dates in the history of Google, the world's No. 1 Web search engine."

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On The Origins of Google
National Science Foundation

"Even in the early days of the Internet, people saw the need for better interfaces to growing data collections. A graduate student supported by an NSF digital library project at Stanford University uncovered the missing links in Web page ranking."

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