Take a look at BusinessWeek’s fascinating summary of the events that led up to the Google/AOL deal.
Google Sends Librarians A Letter
Matt Cutts authored the first article for Google’s Newsletter for Librarians, where he answered the question “How does Google decide what result goes at the top of the list?” and provided exercises for students to do to help them understand ranking.
Google and AOL Make it Official
The news is out and just about everything speculated is true. From the press release…
Google Lyrics SearchDj vu?
At what point has the music industry’s fierce guarding of it’s content gone too far? And how far does Fair Use protect Google as it seeks to index the world’s information? The biggest blow-out of the year was between Google and publishers over the Google Book Search project. The next big blow-out may land Google in the sights of the music industry after the search company launched a music lyrics search function.
Concerns Raised With AOL’s $1 billion Google Deal
Verne Kopytoff of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that not everyone is excited about AOL’s deal with Google.
AOL Wants Graphic Content On Google
As part of the $1 billion dollar deal with Google, AOL wants contextual ads appearing on Google’s search results to yield some space to graphical advertisements. Google has been delivering graphic ads on numerous sites throughout its network of publishers…
Google A Finalist For S.F. WiFi
The City of San Francisco has winnowed its list of potential wireless broadband providers to five, and Google is one of the quintet that made the cut.
AIT Aims To Burst Google’s Bubble
“This is the second time the bubble bursts.” The austere warning from AIT CEO Clarence Briggs seemed like an alarmist’s rendition of reality. But then he said, “It’s easier to join it than it is to stand up and fight it.” And he was right.
Googlezon Video Becoming Reality for Google?
Gregory Lamb of The Christian Science Monitor takes a look back at the “EPIC 2014” video – a mock documentary looking back from 2014 at the merger of Google and Amazon and the death of traditional news – and wonders if it might come true after all.
Icahn Unhappy With Google-AOL News
A $1 billion cash infusion by Google into AOL in exchange for a 5 percent minority stake has powerful investor Carl Icahn concerned that Time Warner is “on the verge of making a disastrous decision.”