Google Talk
Minority Report: Apple, Google - and the power of rumour
Comment Although traditionally an expo for third-party developers (or the hardcore Mac fan), it's surprising how many people are prepared to sit through a lot of talk about APIs in order to get the first glimpse at the latest... [03 Dec 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Net tightens on Bush victory
Comment The anonymity of the internet and the high level of freedom of speech guaranteed in the US Constitution mean those writing online to blogs and websites outside the media mainstream have been able to talk freely about... [10 Nov 2004]
Google dampens browser speculation
News Though reluctant to talk in depth about Google's future or IPO, Doerr gave guidance as to where the company will likely go, including making more information searchable, growing internationally and... [06 Oct 2004]
Reservoir blogs: Is Tarantino publishing his diary online?
News An updated, hipper version of the late 1990s "home page," blogs give ordinary and famous people alike a forum to talk about politics, their community or what they had for breakfast - if anyone cares to read. [27 Aug 2004]
Leader: Beware the Google IPO hype
Leader There's even talk of 'dead cat bounce' or possible 'triple waterfall' on the Nasdaq - which translates as continued weakness. You'd think it were 1999 the way excitement is building around the Google IPO. [26 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.06.04
Round-Up Brave talk in Whitehall is to be commended and keeps the spam problem on the agenda but only techies can save us now. Google said it's taking a neutral position on the legislation and will work with... [04 Jun 2004]
Social networking - Yahoo! latest to talk about a service
News Yahoo on Wednesday dropped hints of growing interest in social networking services for search, following on the heels of similar announcements from rivals Google and Microsoft. Meanwhile, Google recently... [08 Apr 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: BPM, software industry consolidation and Google’s monopoly?
Comment Google monopoly? Subject to any niceties and distinctions of the purists, there is broad agreement that Google controls almost 80 per cent of web search requests. Google remains a... [29 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: A puff of steam in the IPO boiler
Comment Enthusiastic vendors of financial paper are keen to talk up the new investment opportunities that are slowly appearing. Google is the most talked about candidate but many more are waiting hopefully for... [10 Feb 2004]
Leader: Microsoft to buy Google? Joking aside…
Leader Only this time instead of the talk being about a mega-IPO re-igniting the tech market it was all about Microsoft approaching the leader in search. The end of last week, like the week before, was dominated by... [03 Nov 2003]
Lloyds goes Google
News Internet search engine Google has signed a £1m advertising deal with Lloyds TSB Insurance to boost the sale of its products. Google has turned to selling keyword searches after it saw a rapid decline in... [02 Aug 2002]
Search and destroy: Why the BBC is no better than Microsoft
Comment Since the launch of BBCi's much-publicised 'unbiased' search engine almost all the talk has been about the fairness of its results - how come BBC Search keeps returning BBC URLs, people ask. Google, Yahoo! [23 May 2002]