Google Launches Government Data Search Site (TechWeb)
June 16, 2006TechWeb - The site is designed to serve government employees, contractors, and the public by searching an index of U.S. federal, state and local sites.
Google Gains Ground -- Literally (The Motley Fool)
June 16, 2006The Motley Fool - Real estate agents are learning what Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) competitors have known for years: Google is hungry for real estate. Just as it keeps gobbling up market share with its search-engine stronghold, it continues to snap up turf in the real world. Yesterday, the company disclosed in an SEC filing that it would spend $319 million on real estate transactions to boost its Mountain View, Calif., office space by nearly a billion square feet.
AOL to revamp its Netscape.com Web portal (AP)
June 16, 2006
AP - AOL is revamping its Netscape.com Web portal to give visitors a greater role in determining what news articles get readily shown to others.
Don't Get Squashed by Mashups (TechWeb)
June 16, 2006TechWeb - A new Web phenomenon, Enterprise Mashup Services (EMS) pull data from enterprise search engines, Web services and other storehouses, mix 'n' match them and serve it up to users. It sounds cool, but haven't we heard of this before?
Google to buy headquarters property for $319 mln (Reuters)
June 16, 2006Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc. said on Wednesday it plans to pay $319 million for property and buildings, including its headquarters in Mountain View, California, to accommodate a growing work force.
Google to buy its headquarters for $319M (AP)
June 16, 2006
AP - Google Inc. is buying its Silicon Valley headquarters for $319 million in a deal covering the Internet search leader's nerve center — a cluster of buildings revered in high-tech circles as the "Googleplex."
Thanks for the Ad, MySpace (The Motley Fool)
June 16, 2006The Motley Fool - News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS - News) got a problem. A good kind of problem. Its MySpace site has become so popular that it's on a torrid pace to double in size every six months, leaving the company at odds over what to do with MySpace's popular search feature.With companies like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) deriving nearly all of their revenue from search advertising, that little search box on every MySpace page has become key online real estate.
MySpace may be linked with search engines (AP)
June 16, 2006
AP - News Corp. could let one of the larger Web search engines, like Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. or Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, take over the search function on popular social networking site MySpace.com, a News Corp. executive said Tuesday.
Google sales chief says still testing display ads (Reuters)
June 16, 2006
Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc.'s
global sales chief sidestepped questions on Tuesday over
whether its foray into graphical display advertising has been a
disappointment, saying the effort remains in testing mode.
Being outrageous: Is there bad publicity? (AP)
June 16, 2006
AP - In the 48 hours after Ann Coulter's comments bashing Sept. 11 widows hit the airwaves last week, searches for her name on Yahoo rocketed by 2300 percent. Protests came from Hillary Clinton, the 9/11 commission, New York's governor and Fox host Bill O'Reilly. Her new book shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com, where it remains.
Yahoo quickly steps on e-mail worm (AFP)
June 16, 2006
AFP - Yahoo discovered a malicious software "worm" designed to borrow into its free e-mail service and has neutralized the threat, the US Internet search giant said.
Yahoo Quashes Mail Bug (TechWeb)
June 16, 2006TechWeb - Yahoo says it has patched a bug that was letting attackers hijack systems through a flaw in the portal's free Web-based e-mail service.
Google Launches Government Search Site (NewsFactor)
June 16, 2006NewsFactor - Having made its name synonymous with searching the Web, Google is now taking on that part of the Internet that has been notoriously difficult to navigate: U.S. Government sites.
Google tests Web buying system (Reuters)
June 16, 2006
Reuters - Internet search leader Google Inc.
is testing a system that aims to speed purchases
online but bears no resemblance to the popular PayPal payments
service of Web auctioneer eBay , Google's chief
executive said on Thursday.
Google Chief Offers A Few More 'GBuy' Details (PC Magazine)
June 16, 2006PC Magazine - Internet search leader Google Inc. is testing a system that aims to speed purchases online but bears no resemblance to the popular PayPal payments service of Web auctioneer eBay, Google's chief executive said on Thursday.
Google launches new government search site (Reuters)
June 16, 2006
Reuters - Navigating government bureaucracy is
not easy, but it may become faster with Google Inc.'s new
search site for U.S. federal, state and local government.
AOL transforms Netscape into interactive news website (AFP)
June 16, 2006
AFP - Netscape, a pioneering Internet search portal, was reborn as an interactive news website that merges the ingenuity of users with the skills of professional journalists.
Google's Picture Show (The Motley Fool)
June 16, 2006The Motley Fool - Say cheese, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News). The Internet's leading search engine is dipping its feet into the suddenly crowded photo-sharing pool. The company is using Picasa, its free photo-editing software, as a shoehorn into digital-photography storage.
Google Searches Uncle Sam (TechWeb)
June 16, 2006TechWeb - Google launches a new federal government search function.
AOL's Netscape Web Portal Is Reborn (NewsFactor)
June 16, 2006NewsFactor - AOL is breathing new life into Netscape.com with a revamped design -- still in beta -- that takes a page from the strategy playbook of user-driven sites such as Digg.com and Del.icio.us.