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The truth about 'paid-for' search (Part II)
News Goodman, who runs Toronto-based Page Zero Media, said that many of his clients are more comfortable with pay-for-placement programs like those of Overture and Google, because the results are more clearly defined. [01 Oct 2002]
Search engines: how advertisers shape the results you see (1)
News Search site Google added an auction-style ad program to compliment its usual results, which set it into rivalry with Overture. A copy of the recent FTC letter was also sent to About.com, Disney, Google,... [19 Aug 2002]
Search engines: how advertisers shape the results you see (2)
News Google delivers unbiased search results from a vast index of websites; the company does not accept fees for cataloguing sites. AltaVista now includes a tiny link near its results pages called "about",... [19 Aug 2002]
"Jeeves, what is Teoma?"
News Teoma has indexed 200 million web pages compared to Google's three billion, so the new site has some way to go before it leads the pack. Idiosyncratic web butler-cum-search engine Ask... [02 Apr 2002]
Google does pictures
News Google has been trialling a feature that displays a thumbnail of web pages next to search results. Google has previously been lauded for its clean design and speed.... [01 Nov 2001]
Does Google's power threaten the web? (part two)
News This has led to a proliferation of "link farms" - elaborate linking schemes designed to manipulate one of Google's only publicised algorithms, PageRank, which factors a site's popularity... [31 Oct 2001]
Tech firms rally for relief efforts
Comment Web companies such as Google and Yahoo! We haven't had to wait long to find out goodwill and strength from individuals and organisations the world over is now carried over in the actions of companies covered on these... [13 Sep 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Work work work, OS attacks and the secret of Google's success
Comment Instead of simple, free text-based keywords - which has been what most searchers have cut their teeth on - the Google engine collects web pages based on a hierarchy of linkages. Google... [28 Aug 2001]
Sony goes for Google
News Japanese electronics giant Sony has turned to Google to help its customers find their way around its websites. Google yesterday announced that it had signed a licensing deal for an undisclosed amount... [17 Aug 2001]
ITNet exposes job seekers' details online
News But the server which stored the details was outside the company firewall and the pages were cached by search engine Google. The company then contacted Google to ensure the cached... [27 Jul 2001]
Google gets a serious rival
News Like Google it rates web pages according to the number of people who link to that site. US technology company Hawk Holdings has launched an internet search engine called Teoma which is set to rival... [24 Jul 2001]
Internet cowboys stole my website
News Following complaints from Oyster, Proxima Consulting took down its website, but Oyster also kept copies of the site and cached copies are still available on search engine Google. The site must have been up for at least... [04 Jul 2001]
Search engines flagging behind Web boom
News The survey looked at 11 major engines - AltaVista, EuroSeek, Excite, Google, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Microsoft, Northern Light, Snap and Yahoo! Research shows that the top 11 engines are actually getting worse at... [09 Jul 1999]