RSS GoogleMicrosoft suffers further embarrassment
News Visitors to www.trustworthycomputing.com are taken to a real-life Google search results page with links to news articles about Microsoft security flaws. Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiative got off to a rather... [08 Feb 2002]
Google signs up EarthLink
News Internet search engine Google has signed a deal with US ISP EarthLink to provide its technology and advertising for the company's search functions. EarthLink's service previously used rival search tool Overture but has... [06 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment Nowadays there's a heavy, alternative rock outfit called Vic-20 (thanks, Google) but back then it stood for Video Interface Chip (or Computer, according to some revisionists). So far in our 1980s home computing series... [04 Feb 2002]
'Stromatolite Blackpool': A Googlewhacker if ever there was one
News A new craze is sweeping the world - or possibly only the silicon.com office - which is seeing people trying to stump the searching powers of Google by finding instances where searches yield one solitary result. [01 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News Nowadays there's a heavy, alternative rock outfit called Vic-20 (thanks, Google) but back then it stood for Video Interface Chip (or Computer, according to some revisionists). So far in our 1980s home computing series... [01 Feb 2002]
Walter Hewlett vs HP-Compaq: this time it's personal
Comment The game involves searching Google's massive two-billion page database for two words that return a "Results 1 out of 1" message at the top of the page. When the merger was first announced last September a surprised... [31 Jan 2002]
'Stromatolite Blackpool': A Googlewhacker if ever there was one
News A new craze is sweeping the world - or possibly only the silicon.com office - which is seeing people trying to stump the searching powers of Google by finding instances where searches yield one solitary result. [31 Jan 2002]
Google hates pop-ups
News Google, one of the web's most popular search engines, has responded to complaints about pop-ups on its site by issuing an official notice condemning the much-hated advertising practice. Read Google's... [30 Jan 2002]
Yahoo! to charge for searches
News Rival search engine Google has also introduced a fee-based search option, while media websites including The Times, the Sun and the Telegraph have introduced charges for archive searches and daily crosswords. [23 Jan 2002]
Honor Blackman and Alan Hansen: together at last
News The surprise winner of the 'most Google references' is Alan Hansen with an impressive 205,000 (although it's a common name and at least some of the sites refer to one Alan Hansen, assistant professor, University of New... [10 Jan 2002]
The A-Z of ebusiness (Q-R)
News In computer terms, this is what is entered by a user into a search engine (such as Altavista, Yahoo or Google) but can also be applied to any kind of database search. Query RAM Random Access Memory. This is where... [01 Jan 2002]
Google to charge for premium searches?
News Google is considering boosting its revenues by charging users for specialised searches. Google has grown in the past few years to overtake older internet brands such as AltaVista. Google... [20 Nov 2001]
Yahoo! brings cash incentive to search engine
News The service will allow companies to bid for higher placement in query results, with paid listings appearing in a separate column to other results retrieved by Google, Yahoo! Yahoo! has joined forces with search service... [14 Nov 2001]
Novell chief takes chairman's job too
News The move leaves Schmidt free to concentrate on his job as CEO and chairman of Google. Novell CEO Jack Messman will take on the chairman's job too following the departure of Dr Eric Schmidt. Messman is former CEO and... [14 Nov 2001]
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. Google was launched... [01 Nov 2001]
