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News Search engine giant Google plans for the first time to sell ads that include images - a surprise reversal for a company that has won regard for its pioneering use of text-only marketing pitches and for keeping its... [13 May 2004]
Opera begins next act with poke at Google
News It's also taken the chance to have a poke at Google whose Gmail service looks pretty similar to some Opera developments, according to the company's CEO. Tetzchner compared the email client to Google's... [13 May 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Do surfers really love to hate?
Comment There was outcry when Google's site was blocked in China for failing to filter search results for outlawed spiritual movement Falun Gong. More recently there was outcry again when Google's site failed to... [12 May 2004]
Analysis: Politicians botching tech laws
Comment • A California state senator's attempt to ban Google's Gmail actually covers all web email services instead. Legislating technology hasn't gone well in the U.S.according to this piece from silicon.com sister site CNET... [12 May 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Easy mobile minutes, corporate compliance and Google's IPO
Comment Google groupies' complicate IPO One of the most unusual elements of the proposed Google IPO is the use of the public auction system via the internet. In other words, individuals (and institutions) must... [10 May 2004]
Extremist and hate websites rise by 300 per cent
News However, as the controversy over the anti-Semitic Jewwatch website - which ranks top of search giant Google's ratings for the word 'Jew' - has shown, hate websites can be protected by freedom of speech legislation in... [07 May 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.05.04
Round-Up The Round-Up had to turn to Google to find out who Dubya's uncle is - for the sake of a rather childish joke - but at least it's not passing off knowledge as it's own - unlike people who cheat in pub quizzes… cue... [07 May 2004]
Wanted: Google chairman
News Google CEO Eric Schmidt has relinquished his role as company chairman of the board, according to the search engine leader's filing for an initial public offering last week. Schmidt, who joined Google as... [07 May 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.04.04
Round-Up Google has filed for an initial public offering. The corporate culture of Google is renowned as being quirky and idiosyncratic, with toys and gadgets, games of roller hockey and meals cooked by the... [30 Apr 2004]
Google denies FBI masterminding Gmail
News Google on Thursday denied that it has had any contact with the FBI regarding the design of its Gmail web email service. The search firm's denial came after the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submitted a... [30 Apr 2004]
Google files for £2.7bn IPO
News Internet search leader Google filed to go public on Thursday, seeking to raise $2.7bn in an unusual auction-style offering that will give the founders rare control over the company. The letter outlines the company's... [30 Apr 2004]
Jew Watch site drops from Google
News Controversial anti-Semitic website Jew Watch has disappeared from Google, but the search site says it had nothing to do with it -despite calls for the company to remove the offending site from its results. [27 Apr 2004]
Google IPO could be announced 'in days'
News Google could finally be poised to file for a much-anticipated initial public offering, thanks to a fast-approaching deadline that requires the search leader to report financial information to federal regulators. [26 Apr 2004]
Google sets up Tokyo facility
News Google has said it will open a research and development lab in Tokyo, bolstering its technical expertise in four countries. The Tokyo group will join a rapidly growing research arm within Google, one of... [26 Apr 2004]
"Siebel meets Google"
News This is Siebel meets Google," he said. Siebel launched its hosted CRM service in Europe and announced version 7.7 of its CRM application suite at the Siebel User Week conference in Cannes, France, on Wednesday [22 Apr 2004]
