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Microsoft Debuts New Search Engine, Amazon Launches A9, Man Threatens Google, Yahoo! Drops Google - Search Engines News and Articles - July 1, 2004

Thursday, July 1, 2004
Microsoft has released a preview version of its new search engine! Currently, it has indexed just over 1 billion web pages, but that number is expected to grow quickly. Stop by and see what they've been up to.

Sandbox.MSN.com - Microsoft's New Search Engine

Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Inside the Google search machine
By Mark Ward, BBC News Online technology correspondent
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
BBCNews

Sunday, April 18, 2004
A Conversation with Matt Wells
ACM Queue vol. 2, no. 2 - April 2004
Steve Kirsch of Propel Software interviews Gigablast designer Matt Wells

New Search Engine: A9
Amazon has launched a beta version of its brand new search engine, called A9. It incorporates technology from Alexa.com and Google, as well as new technology developed in-house. It comes with an A9 toolbar.

Thursday, April 1, 2004
April Fools from Google: Google Copernicus Center is Hiring

Saturday, March 20, 2004
Suddenly, search engine news becomes "news of the wierd." A man named Michael Anthony Bradley was arrested on Thursday in Ventura County for allegedly threatening Google. Apparently, he created software that would automatically generate click-thoughs on Google AdSense and threatened to sell it if Google didn't pay him $100,000.00.

Federal charges: Man threatened Google
VENTURA COUNTY MAN, 32, ARRESTED BY U.S. AGENTS
By Howard Mintz
Mercury News
Posted on Sat, Mar. 20, 2004

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Yahoo! is officially dumping Google as of today and will be phasing in its own search engine results over the next few weeks. You can see non-Google results on Yahoo! at various locations throughout the world right now.

Friday, October 24, 2003
Google is apparently shopping around for an investment bank to work on a Google IPO.

Google IPO search seen awakening dot-com IPO talk
Reuters, 10.24.03, 8:14 AM ET
LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters)

"The firm, whose austere Web site redefined the way people search the Internet, is auditioning dozens of banks for an initial public offering, possibly in the first half of 2004, people familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday."

More Google IPO News.