Gaga for Google? When results don't count

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Biz Buzz: Not so gaga over Google

Biz Buzz: Not so gaga over Google 08/18/2004 12:47 PM
US News Aug 18 2004 5:41PM GMT

Should You Go Gaga for Google? What to
Consider Before Buying

Should You Go Gaga for Google? What to
Consider Before Buying 05/03/2004 09:19 AM
ABCNEWS.com May 3 2004 1:51PM GMT

Google Goes Gaga for Web Logs

Google Goes Gaga for Web Logs 02/18/2003 04:17 PM
Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Pyra founder Evan Williams wrote in a blog posted to Blogger that "it wasn'ta case of needing to sell, we ...

Bankers, 'Sex in the City' gaga for
Google

Bankers, 'Sex in the City' gaga for
Google 01/06/2004 02:26 PM
CNET Jan 6 2004 1:39PM ET

AnyCount 4 Released: Word Count,
Character Count, and Line Count Software
- Multilingual Interface, New Export
Formats

AnyCount 4 Released: Word Count,
Character Count, and Line Count Software
- Multilingual Interface, New Export
Formats 04/10/2005 03:26 AM
New version of AnyCount 4: Word Count, Character Count, and Line Count Software. [PRWEB Apr 10, 2005]

Over 2 Million Results on Google for
Google Stock News

Over 2 Million Results on Google for
Google Stock News 06/22/2004 02:47 AM
Google Stock and Google IPO is a very high profile issue in both the finance and online world. There are millions of information pages about Google Stock with no real answers to key questions. A new site, Google-Stock (www.google-stock.net), launched today a free service to bring the hot headlines on Google to your own inbox, saving time searching through millions of results. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Google works in Google Glossary to
Results

Google works in Google Glossary to
Results 07/15/2004 05:27 PM
Google starts to display actual content in SERPs.

Google Results via RSS

Google Results via RSS 08/27/2004 01:51 PM

Rajiv is beta testing Google.RSS, a service which uses the Google API to return search results as an RSS feed.

Odd Google Results

Odd Google Results 12/23/2002 07:53 AM
Odd Google Results Here's an odd Google result for "Joel's Currency Converter" [_Go_] Now don't get me wrong -- I understand why it came up. Still I wonder about this result when what I really wanted was this. But I can't bitch much at all -- the result I was expecting was right on top. I'm more just observing.

It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google
results are?

It's 5:00. Do you know what your Google
results are? 02/03/2003 06:21 PM
Boston Globe: A Nation of Voyuers, How the Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another - and raising questions about whether we should. "Google changed our concept of time as well. It has helped make our past - or oddly refracted shards of it - present and permanent. That's a radical notion for a medium usually defined by its ability to constantly update itself." "It's the collapse of inconvenience," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. "It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it."...

Gaga for Pages

Gaga for Pages 03/22/2005 07:31 PM
“After first being blasé about Pages, I am now gaga over it,” writes Mike Wendland for the Detroit Free Press. “The more I use it, the more blown away I am by its elegance. Alas, it only works with Apple computers, but with all the people who have been switching to the Mac platform recently, we need to talk about it...It’s clean, crisp, very flexible and so easy to use you don’t even need to read the instructions. Style is what sets Pages apart.” [Mar 22, 2005]

Red Alert: Google Results on AOL - Now

Red Alert: Google Results on AOL - Now 07/23/2002 11:00 AM
Search AOL now staring results by Google. Appears to be a beta site.

Google Results on iWon

Google Results on iWon 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
First AOL, now Iwon.

Google Ad Links Results

Google Ad Links Results 03/22/2005 03:46 PM
"I am finding that in the case of Ad Links, that if a surfer clicks on the Ad Link in the ad unit, nearly *all* click through to at least one of the sponsored listings on the second page."

Seeing Two Sets of Google Results

Seeing Two Sets of Google Results 03/22/2005 03:46 PM
(subscription required): Members are seeing two distinct sets of Google results. Possibly a prelude to an update.

Results of Google IPO May Be Muted

Results of Google IPO May Be Muted 05/10/2004 01:26 AM
Los Angeles Times May 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

Get Just Google Adwords Results

Get Just Google Adwords Results 12/27/2004 11:26 PM
Wondering what ads Google has for a particular keyword? Do your search at http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks. You'll get JUST sponsored results. For interesting search results, try a keyword that's heavily in the...

Use Google the Wrong Way to get the
Right Results

Use Google the Wrong Way to get the
Right Results 09/13/2004 04:17 PM
Source: Search Engine Lowdown - How do you search for something on the web that search engines cache, but they won’t let you search for? I recently found myself with just such a dilemma....

Better search results than Google?

Better search results than Google? 01/05/2004 12:19 PM
CNN Jan 5 2004 10:58AM ET

Better Search Results Than Google?

Better Search Results Than Google? 01/05/2004 04:11 PM
Mechanik writes "CNN has an AP article about the next generation of up and coming search tools, which try to cope with the glut of hits that result from ...

TV Execs Go Gaga Over Gaming

TV Execs Go Gaga Over Gaming 12/17/2003 06:09 AM
Hoping to grab the eyeballs of viewers hooked on video games, television honchos search for a silver bullet. Their bright idea: More TV shows about gaming. By John Gaudiosi.

Google Speeds Up Results for Firefox

Google Speeds Up Results for Firefox 03/31/2005 11:49 AM
Software engineer Reza Behforooz announced Wednesday on the Google Blog that the company has added "prefetching" to some searches, which instructs the Web browser to automatically start downloading the top result. The feature is only available in Mozilla and Firefox, and can be optionally disabled.

AdWords No Different from Stock Google
Results

AdWords No Different from Stock Google
Results 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
AdWords are now displayed in same color as standard results. The thin line between Google search results and paid search results is now -- literally -- a visual thin line.

Change in The Way Google Serves Results
on .co.uk

Change in The Way Google Serves Results
on .co.uk 03/14/2005 05:15 PM
"USA sites are dropped down the rankings and UK sites are bumped to the top."

Visualizing Google Search Results

Visualizing Google Search Results 08/30/2004 01:46 PM
Source: SearchDay - MoreGoogle is a simple utility that enhances Google result pages with thumbnail images and other useful links....

Yahoo Results Getting More Similar to
Google

Yahoo Results Getting More Similar to
Google 05/18/2004 06:18 PM
Search Engine Journal-46 minutes ago ... have been tracking overlaps for popular queries for several months and found a general increase in overlapping search results between Yahoo and Google. ...

Compare Yahoo and Google Results

Compare Yahoo and Google Results 04/14/2005 10:20 AM
Wondering EXACTLY what the difference is between Yahoo and Google's results? Well, I can't help you there but I can give you a pointer. The pointer's to Yahgoohoogle, a site...

Getcher Google Results With Thumbnails

Getcher Google Results With Thumbnails 08/18/2004 10:18 AM
I have mentioned more and more in the last few months search engines which offer small screen shots of pages (thumbnails) with search results. While these are certainly nothing new...

Google: An explanation of our search
results

Google: An explanation of our search
results 04/15/2004 03:47 AM
An explanation of our search results .. Google has officially responded .. Please read our note here .. ad

google.com/explanation.html
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Google News Watch results

Google News Watch results 11/04/2003 08:21 PM
Google News is a robot-generated news page at the popular Google web search engine. Just over a year ago www.newsknife.com launched ...

Does Google help governments censor
results?

Does Google help governments censor
results? 04/30/2004 02:12 AM

Wired Magazine, January 2003

Brin was no expert on international diplomacy. So he ordered a half-dozen books about Chinese history, business, and politics on Amazon.com and splurged on overnight shipping. He consulted with Schmidt, Page, and David Drummond, Google's general counsel and head of business development, then put in a call to tech industry doyenne Esther Dyson for advice and contacts. Google has no offices in China, so Brin enlisted go-betweens to get the message to Chinese authorities that Google would be very interested in working out a compromise to restore access. "We didn't want to do anything rash," Brin says. "The situation over there is more complex than I had imagined."

Four days later, Chinese authorities restored access to the site. How did that happen? For starters, the Chinese government was deluged with outcries from the nation's 46 million Internet users when access to Google was cut off. "Internet users in China are an apolitical crowd," says Xiao Qiang, executive director of New York-based Human Rights In China. "They tend to be people who are doing well, and they don't usually voice strong views. But this stepped into their digital freedom."

The quick workaround: Chinese authorities tweaked the national firewall, making the new Google China different from the site that was turned off. Today, Chinese who use Google to search on terms like "falun gong" or "human rights in china" receive a standard-looking results page. But when they click on any of the results, either their browsers are redirected to a blank or government-approved page, or their computers are blocked from accessing Google for an hour or two. "They have a new mechanism that can block the results of certain searches," Brin says. Did Google help China find or obtain the filtering technology? "We didn't make changes to our servers" is all he'll say.

via google-watch.org

S eth Finkelstein describes how Google self-censorship works. Also, Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School have a paper on Localized Google search result exclusions which is quite interesting.

I can understand from a business perspective why Google would do this, but whenever I bring this up with people they deny it or can't believe it.

Does anyone else have any more information on this?

PS This has nothing to do with trying to hurt Google or their IPO. I've been trying to figure this out for the last few weeks and have reached a dead end in my research so I'm trying to understand more. How companies like this work with governments and how this information is then disclosed is very important.

Google to post quarterly results

Google to post quarterly results 07/20/2004 09:13 AM
Source: News.com - Google is expected to give an indication of how much it expects bidders to pay for its shares in an updated initial public offering filing as soon as this week, according to potential investors....

Wendland gaga over Apple's Pages

Wendland gaga over Apple's Pages 03/23/2005 12:45 PM
Mike Wendland of the Detroit Free Press says Apple's new Pages application is "clean, crisp, very flexible and so easy to use you don't even need to read the instructions."...

Google Says It Doesn't Plan To Change
Search Results

Google Says It Doesn't Plan To Change
Search Results 04/12/2004 11:30 PM
Google has no plans to alter its search results despite complaints that the first listing on a search for the word "Jew" directs people to an anti-Semitic Web site.

Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When
Blocking Spam

Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When
Blocking Spam 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence: when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where spam results manage to rise to the top, very few -- sometimes zero -- results will be returned. Examples: motorcycle candle, keyboard bracelet. These are common words for which you'd expect to see results (in fact, the latter even says there are thousands of results) but the bug prevents them from being seen. Eliminating the spam pages (by blocking a word, antenna, that appears on them) allows full results to be displayed. It's pretty amazing that such a serious bug made it past Google's tests. It will be interesting to see how quickly it's fixed....

Google Fights Lawsuit Over Search
Results

Google Fights Lawsuit Over Search
Results 01/14/2003 12:26 PM
In a case that underscores the increasing importance search rankings have on business, Google Technologies is fighting to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it ...

Yahoo set to drop Google search results

Yahoo set to drop Google search results 01/06/2004 10:29 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Jan 6 2004 9:11AM ET

The Business Of Making Your Google
Results Worse

The Business Of Making Your Google
Results Worse 08/06/2004 06:45 PM
While it's well known that there are plenty of folks working on ways to boost rankings in Google, it turns out that the opposite is true as well. First, there's the sort of confidential information that accidentally gets revealed online, which people don't want Google to have. Usually that can be quickly removed from the index by letting Google know. However, others want to make sure that bad or embarrassing things aren't the top results. The article even notes that one PR firm has a full-time search engine optimizer whose main job is to make sure bad stories about clients get pushed down in the rankings.

G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across
Time

G-Metrics Measures Google Results Across
Time 08/10/2004 07:01 AM
You might be interested in the popularity of keywords in Google for a variety of reasons -- you might be doing research on a technology, or you might be trying...
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