Google jumps on news of S&P 500 entry
Google will enter the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index at the end of March, news that lifted the company’s stock on Friday as mutual funds that track the index acquired shares in the Internet search leader.
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Google Sued Over Lowering Company’s Ranking
Kinderstart.com, a parental advice site, has filed a lawsuit against Google for unfairly lowering it’s ranking without a reason or warning. They claim that in March of 2005 their site fell in the ranking and as a result had lost 70% of it’s traffic and about 80% decline in revenue. As a result they seek financial damages as well as details about Google’s ranking algorithm.
Web Site Files Complaint Against Google
Suing Google Over Search Results
Google sued for falling web traffic
Google sued over search ranking
Suing Google Over Pagerank
Google 2006 Strategy
The Web world was abuzz this week over rumors that Google is preparing a service that will let people store every bit of their data online.
Details about the
GDrive product leaked onto the Web after Google accidentally posted notes online from a slide presentation given by executives during the company's analyst presentation day.
Bloggers quickly picked up on
the notes, which stated that
"with infinite storage, we can house all user files, including e-mails, Web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc., and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc.)."
Garett Rogers from
ZDNet writes:
"The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices."
Google subsequently took the original presentation, and the notes,
offline.
Google Drive: What we know so far
Google 'planning total storage'
Google lets slip talk of online storage service
Ask.com Gaining Market Share
In officially becoming Ask.com, the former Ask Jeeves search site has today unveiled its new main page, featuring a new logo, a simplified interface and new tools including enhanced maps and driving directions, encyclopedia search and web-based desktop search.
Ask.com is minimal in design, with the red logo against a white background, the search box and a new customisable "toolbox" with shortcuts to 10 default search tools including maps, images, weather, dictionary and local search.
Ask Looses Jeeves, Gains New Features
Ask does a Google
Ask.com shows Jeeves the door
In addition to a new site, Ask.com is actually gaining market share, not just rising with the tide. But is Google (GOOG) losing market share, or is Ask.com stealing it from other competitors such as MSN?
Also on the horizon is the 2007 expiration of the company’s deal with Google, which handles the advertising links on Ask’s search pages. After AOL.com, Ask is the largest contributor to Google’s ad network; some analysts think Ask will be positioned to create a lucrative bidding war for its traffic among Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. It’s also announced plans to develop its own advertising network.
Google Unveils Web-Design Tool
Google has added another service to its portfolio of online offerings with the launch this week of Page Creator, a free tool for creating personal Web sites.
Over the past several years, Google has rolled out several online tools, but Page Creator represents the company's first foray into the world of Web hosting.
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Judge sides with Perfect 10
A federal court judge has concluded that an image search service run by Google Inc. infringes on the copyrights of adult entertainment company Perfect 10 Inc. by displaying small versions of its images in search results.
"The judge ruled that because Google receives advertising money from offering search functions, it is not entitled to the same level of free use of the images as other entities would be."
Google Perfect 10 thumbnails 'breach copyright'
Partial Victory for Perfect 10?
Google oogling Perfect 10
