Topic: GOOGLE - on January 28, 2004 at 3:16:00 PM CET
Google Grants Non-Profits a Break
An adjunct to Google's AdSense contextual advertising program, currently in beta release, has been making it easier for some non-profit charities. Google Grants, as the program is called, has been lurking silently in the background of the Google infrastructure for the past several months. It's triggered when Google's technology can't determine the best keyword match for the content on a page, or doesn't have appropriate AdWords ads to serve with the content. Publishers that display AdSense ads can turn off the feature as a user preference (and instead of serving the PSA can serve their own ads).
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Topic: - on January 27, 2004 at 10:43:00 PM CET
BBC buys up 'Hutton inquiry' Google links
Just 48 hours before Lord Hutton delivers his verdict on the controversy surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, the BBC has begun an advertising experiment that involves buying up all internet search terms relating to the inquiry.
Despite being one of the main players in the drama, anyone searching for "Hutton inquiry" or "Hutton report" on the UK's most popular search engine Google is automatically directed to a paid-for link to BBC Online's own news coverage of the inquiry.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 25, 2004 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Rankingupdate
So wie es aussieht, ist das sog. "Florida Update" nun in weit stärkerem Maße nach Deutschland gekommen.
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Topic: - on January 23, 2004 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service
Google has quietly released a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google software engineer who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google.
All employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time working on personal interests, a policy Google has to encourage creativity. Buyukkokten had an interest in social networking and so developed his service, Google says. Now the company has decided to open it to the public.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 22, 2004 at 2:03:00 AM CET
Google News Alerts (BETA) German deutsch
Willkommen bei Google News Alerts Google News Alerts werden per E-Mail gesendet, sobald Artikel online erscheinen, die mit den angegebenen Themen übereinstimmen.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 17, 2004 at 11:58:00 AM CET
-40 degrees Celsius = -40 degrees Fahrenheit
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 16, 2004 at 1:26:00 AM CET
There's a Gaggle Chasing Google
If you want to take a crack at knocking Google off its perch as the world's most popular search engine, you had better get in line.
According to recent reports, both Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) already have started preparing next-generation search technologies in a bid to capture a portion of the fast-growing market for search advertising.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 14, 2004 at 4:37:00 AM CET
ALL Google News - RSS Feeds
About Google News RSS Feeds
This web site provides RSS feeds, gathered from Google News every 15 minutes via a Perl script that parses the HTML on the Google News site. It picks the top news site from the top stories of each of Google's 8 categories. This site is NOT affiliated with Google in any way.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 9, 2004 at 4:13:00 AM CET
Googlearchy
How a Few Heavily-Linked Sites Dominate Politics on the Web. Claims about the Web and politics have commonly confounded two different things:
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 9, 2004 at 3:49:00 AM CET
Google Whois quicklink
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 8, 2004 at 11:49:00 PM CET
Google News Map
I was working with World 66 the open travel site with some mapping stuff and got a list of countries and their coordinates. Why not parse Google News, find the first name match and draw a map with the latest headlines on the coordinates of the countries.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 6, 2004 at 12:13:00 AM CET
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Manage Google IPO
Google Inc. hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange its initial public offering, a sale that may raise as much as $4 billion, a banker involved in the transaction said.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs will lead a group of underwriters that includes Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and WR Hambrecht + Co., two bankers in the sale said. They spoke on condition they not be named.
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