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Google vs. Evil, Yahoo! Acquires Inktomi, Commentary on Froogle, Interview with JoeAnt, Open Directory Finally Working Again - Search Engines News and Articles - January 30, 2003
Friday, January 30, 2003, 5:34pm
The Open Directory search engine has been updated today for the first time since September of last year. The RDF is still not working, so Google and the many other directories that use DMOZ data still cannot update their directories, but at least now people can see if their sites have been added.
Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 9:16am
C. J. Newton from
SEO Logic
® spent several days communicating with Mary Beth Buckner, a founding editor of the JoeAnt directory. You can read all about JoeAnt, its history, volunteer culture, technology, and future in the article that follows.
JoeAnt Creates a New Volunteer Culture
Interview with JoeAnt website directory founding editor explores JoeAnt's history, culture, and technology.
By C. J. Newton
SEO Logic® Search Engine News
January 29, 2003
Thursday, January 16, 2003, 10:30am
Businessweek has been paying close attention to Google lately. Alex Aalkever wrote two articles that posted on January 14th, one discussing the in's and out's of Froogle, Google's new shopping search engine, and one discussing the difficulties Google faces as it continues to grow while dominating the search engine arena.
Will Froogle Be a Google for Shoppers?
Maybe not right away. The search giant's new service, still in beta, is mighty sparse on the useful information that rivals provide.
COMMENTARY
By Alex Salkever
Businessweek.com
JANUARY 14, 2003 |
Google's Gaggle of Problems
Competition is building at both the high and low ends of the market. Worse, some clients think the search giant is encroaching on their turf.
NEWS ANALYSIS
By Alex Salkever
Businessweek.com
JANUARY 14, 2003
Tuesday, December 24, 2002, 10:57am
On the front page of this morning's Wall Street Journal, in the "What's News" section, it says, "Yahoo agreed to buy Internet search pioneer Inktomi for about $235 million as part of an effort to expand its revenue sources."
It's noteworthy that the news appeared on the front page of the Journal. It has been some time since one of the major search engines made such a news splash. A quick search of Yahoo!'s press releases confirms that Yahoo! made the announcement on December 23. Noone at Yahoo or Inktomi is commenting yet on how the deal will impact that visitor's experience on Yahoo.com. We'll dig that up in the next few weeks. In the meantime, read the press release.
YAHOO! TO ACQUIRE INKTOMI
Sunnyvale, CA
Dec. 23, 2002
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News)
Monday, December 16, 2002, 9:17am
In an article published this weekend in Wired Magazine, Josh McHugh writes intelligently about the choices facing the corporate leaders at Google. At this point, Google is responsible for the search results in nearly 80% of all Internet searches.
The article is well-written, but what stands out is Josh's ability to get Sergey Brin to speak openly about several very controversial issues, namely Google's stand on the issues of censoring search results, taking paid advertisements, and optimizing websites so that they will rank well in the search results. To date, no one else has been able to get Sergey or any other Google executive to address these issues so openly. Good job Josh!
Google vs. Evil
The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business.
By Josh McHugh
Wired Magazine
Issue 11.01 - January 2003
