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Google - Simple English Wikipedia Google (http://www.google.com) is a very large and popular search engine on the World Wide Web of the Internet. "To google," as a verb means "to search for something on Google"; because Google is so popular (perhaps 80 percent of all web users work with it) today it also means "to search the web." Google officials do not like this use of the company name, because really, "Google" is a trademark. Google began as a research project in early 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Leland Stanford University, USA. simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Google   (443 words)

Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name "Google" is a play on the word "Googol", which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nine-year-old nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938, to refer to the number represented by 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Google is known for its relaxed corporate culture, reminiscent of the Dot-com boom. However, Google provides mechanisms for requesting that caching be disabled (which Google respects; it also honors the robots.txt file which is another mechanism that allows operators of a website to request that part or all of their site not be included in search engine results). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Google_Inc.   (6444 words)

Google, Inc. and David C. Drummond: Admin. Proc. Rel. No. 33-8523 / January 13, 2005 Google, a Silicon Valley search engine technology company, issued over $80 million worth of stock options to the company's employees and consultants from 2002 to 2004 without registering the offering and without providing financial information required to be disclosed under the federal securities laws. Google, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with its principal executive offices located in Mountain View, California. Google viewed the public disclosure of its detailed financial information as strategically disadvantageous, as Drummond recognized, and the company was concerned that providing option recipients with the financial disclosures required by Rule 701 could result in the disclosure of this information to the public at large and, significantly, to Google's competitors. www.sec.gov /litigation/admin/33-8523.htm   (1816 words)

Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power Google has taken the last 10 years of systems software research out of university labs, and built their own proprietary, production quality system. Google doesn't deploy bare motherboards on exposed trays anymore; they're on at least the fourth iteration of their cheap hardware platform. Google now has an institutional competence building and maintaining servers that cost a lot less than the servers everyone else is using. blog.topix.net /archives/000016.html   (1120 words)

USATODAY.com - Publishers protest Google library project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Two unidentified publishers already asked Google to withhold its copyrighted material from the scanners, but the company hasn't complied with the requests, Peter Givler, the executive director for the New York-based trade group, wrote in the letter that was sent last Friday. Google also is scanning books stored in the New York Public Library and Oxford in England, but those two libraries so far are only providing Google with "public domain" works — material no longer protected by copyrights. The latest complaints about Google are being driven by university-backed publishers who fear there will be little reason to buy their books if Google succeeds in its effort to create a virtual reading room. www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-05-24-google-library-battle_x.htm   (786 words)

How Google Grows...and Grows...and Grows Google's tale is a familiar one: Two Stanford doctoral students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, developed a set of algorithms that in 1998 sparked a holy-shit leap in Web-search performance. Google's revenue model is notoriously tough to deconstruct: Analysts guess that its revenue last year was anywhere from $60 million to $300 million. Google understands that its two most important assets are the attention and trust of its users. www.fastcompany.com /magazine/69/google.html   (4120 words)

Google Stirs Controversy With Froogle (TechNews.com) Google has staked its reputation as the Internet's premier search engine on delivering rapid, relevant search results -- untouched by human hands -- that it says are based on complex mathematical formulas and sophisticated technology. Google previously has said its ad rankings were based entirely on formulas combining the prices paid for ads and the popularity of Web sites among searchers. Google's practice contrasts with that of Yahoo Inc. Type "Father's Day" in its search engine, and the first results that come back are labeled "Inside Yahoo" to distinguish them from search results for the rest of the Web. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A26277-2004Jun8.html   (1113 words)

CNN.com - Sources: Google developing ad service for e-mail - Jan. 19, 2004 Google Inc., which dominates the market for Web search, is developing a service that could dramatically extend the reach of its lucrative keyword-based advertising by linking such ads to e-mail, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. Google late last year purchased rival Sprinks, which had technology to deliver ads to e-mail as the messages were opened. Google already knows how to deliver its sponsored link ads -- which are in the form of Web links and appear on the perimeter of Web pages -- to e-mail newsletters and content sites. edition.cnn.com /2004/TECH/internet/01/19/google.email.reut   (643 words)

Google's IPO Jumps to $100 at Open   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Google's road to its IPO had been bumpy, such as an ill-timed interview granted to Playboy magazine and millions of shares that the company failed to register with the SEC. Google eventually slashed its anticipated price range for the IPO, and shareholders reduced the number of shares they sold in the offering. For the six months ended June 30, Google's profit was $143 million, on revenues in the same period of $1.35 billion, according to its SEC filings. www.internetnews.com /bus-news/article.php/3397291   (931 words)

Google patches one security hole, but another surfaces | InfoWorld | News | 2004-10-21 | By Paul Roberts, IDG News ... The Google hole is an example of a common security problem affecting Web sites that dynamically generate Web pages based on input from unknown sources, such as Web surfers, according to a vulnerability note written in 2000 by the Computer Emergency Readiness Team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Google developers appear to have missed that four-year-old warning and the company did not respond to repeated e-mails sent to an address for reporting security holes, Ley said. In patching it, Google developers changed their code to prevent javascript and vbscript, but may have left open other avenues of attack, Ley wrote in an e-mail. www.infoworld.com /article/04/10/21/HNgoogle_1.html   (1510 words)

Google expands access to Gmail: Internet News from The Industry Standard Google Inc. opened up its Gmail Web mail service to a wider scope of users on Monday by randomly offering, for the first time, accounts to some visitors of the main Google.com page. Gmail also brought Google, in Mountain View, California, a good amount of controversy due to its inclusion of contextual text ads in the messages based on their content, which prompted privacy advocates to criticize the practice. Google defended itself by saying that the ads are generated automatically with text-scanning technology and without human intervention. www.thestandard.com /internetnews/001096.php   (483 words)

CNN.com - Google set to display books - Nov 3, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (AP) -- Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can be scanned and indexed from five major libraries. Google said the material represents the first large batch of public domain books and documents to be indexed in its search engine since the Mountain View-based company announced an ambitious library-scanning project late last year. Google postponed the scanning of copyrighted books in August to give writers and publishers more time to opt out of the program. www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/internet/11/03/google.library.ap   (381 words)

Google Inc. settles charges with SEC - Corporate Scandals - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Google also said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would not pursue further action regarding a Playboy interview with company founders, which was published just before the company’s $1.7 billion IPO in mid-August. The SEC had charged Google with issuing more than $80 million in stock options to its employees and consultants from 2002 to 2004 without registering the offering and without providing financial information required to be disclosed under federal securities laws. Google Inc. and the Internet search engine company's General Counsel settled U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to register over $80 million in employee stock options granted prior to its initial public offering last August, the SEC and Google said Thursday. msnbc.msn.com /id/6822526   (484 words)

[No title] Google also offers co-branded web search solutions for information content providers, and has partnerships with 130 companies in more than 30 different countries, including some of the Internet’s most prominent players. Google is the owner of United States Trademark Registration No. 2,806,075 for the GOOGLE mark covering search and communication services in International Classes 38 and 42. Inc., D2000-0460 (WIPO Sept. 5, 2000) (finding that “[b]y September 1999, when first approached by the Complainant, the Respondent or its predecessors had used the website for almost 4 years, thus demonstrating ‘a bona fide offering of goods and services’”). www.arb-forum.com /domains/decisions/275419.htm   (3062 words)

Official Google Blog Last week Google opened our new office in the Victoria area of London, and to mark the occasion we invited students from nearby schools to create their own Google Doodles from our logo. Google News gathers stories from more than 200 news sources in Portuguese worldwide, and automatically arranges them to present the most relevant news first. We launched Google Sitemaps this past summer as a way for webmasters to give us information we could use to better crawl their sites. googleblog.blogspot.com   (2068 words)

Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary Inc., the second-most used search engine, this week said international sales more than doubled in the first quarter to $355 million. About 35 percent of Google's revenue is generated outside the U.S., while as many as 60 percent of its users are located overseas, J.P. Morgan's Khan said in a March 7 note. Google sells ads using an online auction in which clients bid the amount they are willing to pay for certain search keywords. quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=a1_2lrXaCVeU   (841 words)

BW Online | May 3, 2004 | Google Google, which analysts believe topped $900 million in sales and $150 million in net profits last year, could raise $1 billion to $2 billion. Google execs also maintain that the company's freewheeling engineering culture is not a liability but an asset. Google execs are betting their technological expertise will help them make up the difference. www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/04_18/b3881001_mz001.htm   (3585 words)

Kazaa Owner Complains of Copyright Infringement (#1) -- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Napster Inc., the court refused to extend the safe harbor provisions to the Napster software program and service, leaving open the question of whether peer-to-peer networks also qualify for safe harbor protection under Section 512. Rather than simply sending a letter to the service provider that claims that infringing material exists on their system, these qualifications ensure that service providers are given a reasonable amount of information to locate the infringing materials and to effectively police their networks. Remarq Communities, Inc., the court found that the copyright owner did not have to point out all of the infringing material, but only substantially all of the material. www.chillingeffects.org /dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789   (2313 words)

Bloomberg.com: U.S. Google is pushing ads to sites such as the online New York Times, where a story about flamenco dancing is accompanied by a Google ad for flamencosound.com, a music store. Google sells text-based ads using an online auction system, in which advertisers bid the amount they're willing to pay to be displayed alongside results for search keywords. Google advertisers paid an average of $1.12 per search for the words ``digital camera'' on Jan. 26, while ``mortgage'' commanded $4.52, according to Lanctot's research. www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aTfx5lrbCTkM&refer=us   (949 words)

Google Launches Personal History Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Google Inc. is experimenting with a new feature that enables the users of its online search engine to see all of their past search requests and results, creating a computer peephole that could prove as embarrassing as it is helpful. Whenever a user is logged in, Google will provide a detailed look at all their past search activity. Google is hoping the service becomes so valuable that people will use its search engine even more frequently than they already do, giving the company more opportunities to display text-based ads that boost its profits. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/04/20/financial/f163431D84.DTL   (606 words)

» SEO Inc. Threatens Google Blogoscoped  InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel SEO Inc., a leader in the search engine marketing field suffering through some tough times, has threatened Google Blogoscoped with legal action for commenting on their current woes. While SEO Inc. had long bragged about holding the number one spot for “search engine optimization“, it is now nowhere to be found. And while a low or non-existent Google ranking is bad enough for sites outside the SEO industry, it hits everyone in the SEO business twice as hard: not only are SEOInc not being found with search engines anymore, they’ve also lost their biggest proof their services are worth paying for. google.blognewschannel.com /index.php/archives/2005/05/05/seo-inc-threatens-google-blogoscoped   (857 words)

Google Inc. v Dot Name Communications - Case No. 114712 Complainant is Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA (“Complainant”) represented by Julia Anne Matheson, of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett and Dunner L.L.P. Respondent is Dot Name Communications, Mumbai, INDIA (“Respondent”) represented by V. Ramu of Ramu and Associates. Google is the owner of numerous Untied States trademark applications for the mark GOOGLE including the following representative examples. Google owns the domain name , which was registered on September 15, 1997 and which has been used to identify Google’s website since on or about that date. www.arb-forum.com /domains/decisions/114712.htm   (2137 words)

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide The fees generated from Google's IPO may be as much as $280 million if the company raises as much as $4 billion based on a 7 percent fee. Google generates most of its revenue from a service known as sponsored-search advertising. Google probably had revenue of about $1 billion in 2003 and net income of about $200 million that will increase to about $1.5 billion of sales and net income of $300 million in this year, according to Eric Martinuzzi, an analyst at Craig-Hallum Capital Group in Minneapolis. quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a_Eq9eQKlAas&refer=home   (839 words)

The Unofficial Google Weblog - google.weblogsinc.com Google doesn’t always respond quickly to suggestions, but when word got out that Google Base was infested with porn last week, the company stepped on it. It’s also typical of Google’s reliance on consumer trust, and the FAQ for this service takes pains to emphasize that the searcher’s phone number will not be shared, and won’t even be kept by Google for very long. Yelp Maptastic is a Google Maps mashup project that lets users submit reviews of local businesses, and then those businesses become part of the mappable database. google.weblogsinc.com   (1327 words)

CNN.com - Google tool maps out shopping trips - Nov 22, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Initially, Google is depending on a contractor to pull the inventory information from several hundred major merchants. Yahoo Inc., perhaps Google's biggest rival, recently expanded its shopping site so it spans 90 million products, up from 60 million a year ago. They both advertise heavily on Google and Yahoo to lure much of their traffic. edition.cnn.com /2005/TECH/internet/11/22/google.froogle.ap   (440 words)

Weblogs Inc Debuts Google RSS Services - The Unofficial Google Weblog - google.weblogsinc.com The first platform to test Google’s much-anticipated RSS advertising service, Weblogs Inc. RSS feeds for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (www.tuaw.com) and a few others now carry Google-served, contextually relevant text ads. Google is the obvious company to democratize the revolution. And we at Weblogs Inc are thrilled to be on the bleeding edge. google.weblogsinc.com /entry/1234000887041568   (852 words)

Is Google Ready to Browse? A Google Web browser is the latest in the never-ending speculation about what search leader Google Inc. is going to do next after raising $1.7 billion from its public offering. Meanwhile, Google is mentioned in at least two different reports on Mozilla's Bugzilla system. One, which is dated July 2003, when Google browser rumors first surfaced on a series of blogs, was made private this week. www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1650810,00.asp   (1147 words)

Google Tackles Search Memory in Beta Service Google wants to be more than a way of searching for Web pages, the search company says: It wants to become an extension of a user's online memory. To offer the related searches, Google is using clustering techniques similar to those used to group related news stories in the Google News service, Mayer said. Google's My Search History service also provides a calendar view of search history, which lets users navigate to a specific day's history and view the amount of search activity each day. www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1788272,00.asp   (1027 words)

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