At a speech on the Microsoft campus, Bill Gates gave an outline of how the company hopes to compete with-and even outdo-the reigning search champ Google. These and other companies are vying for contracts to install search systems at businesses. A key component of Gates’s plan to succeed is the omnipresent Windows software.
Yahoo Tops Google In Mail, News, Finance
Google owns the search market, but for other content types the number two search engine company has first place in those categories.
Google Domains Not Catching Fire
Beyond the vaunted minimalist Google home page, the next nineteen Google domains barely account for 20 percent of visits to all things ending in Google.com.
Google May Go Mobile In China
Google is in early talks to make Internet search capabilities available to Chinese mobile phone users. There have been two meetings between the CEOs of China Mobile and Google to discuss the possibility, according to a China Mobile spokeswoman.
Google Upgrades Blog Search Tool
If you’ve ever frequented Internet forums or blogs, you’ve probably seen it happen-a thread goes quiet, becomes dormant, and for all intents and purposes, dies. Then a year later some goober comes along and replies to it. A new tool from Google will help eliminate these occurrences.
Google Video Breaks Up, Drinks Beer
In a flurry of cross promotional efforts flying past your head faster than your ex-girlfriend’s spiked pump, Google has retooled Google Video to be more YouTube style, has solicited user breakup videos to honor “National Breakup Day” sponsored by Budweiser and is co-presented by Universal Picture’s The Break-Up.
AdWords For Google Base Listings
Google is encouraging users to promote products and services listed on Google Base through its AdWords program.
DOJ Cold To Google’s IE7 Complaint
The Department of Justice didn’t buy Google’s complaint that Microsoft’s 7th version of Internet Explorer violated antitrust measures by setting MSN Search as the default search engine, bundled with next year’s release of Windows Vista. Having worldwide dominance in search probably didn’t help Google’s case.
Software Co. Suggests A Lawsuit To Google
Belgian software company ServersCheck is suing Google in a Belgian court claiming that Google’s Suggest feature as utilized on the Google Toolbar in Internet Explorer and Firefox leads searchers to illegal or cracked versions of the company’s software.
Google Alters Functionality To Comply With DRM
Google has changed the way Gmail displays PDF files, in order to prevent it from circumventing Adobe’s DRM.