In the Form S-1 that Google filed with the SEC this afternoon, the search engine names the companies with whom it has the most competition with. Calling the competition “formidable,” Google gave names to the search engines it thinks will give Google the most competition.
T-shirt Company Denied Google AdWords Campaign
Y-Que, a T-shirt company located in Southern California, has had its AdWords campaign cancelled by Google because of the keywords the company selected to use. Y-Que believes that the basis of Google’s cancellation is a move to stifle free speech.
CrossRef Launches Google-Powered Crossref Search
Calling themselves the “citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form”, CrossRef has launched a Google-powered search engine called CrossRef Search. This engine allows users to search the full text of many types of scholarly documents.
Google Tops In Search Engine Driven Ecommerce
Market intelligence firm RandomSecrecy.com has compiled a report on Google, giving a detailed market analysis. The report shows that Google has the top position in the Search & Buy e-commerce market.
Google Has Options When Filing
Anticipation of Google filing their IPO has hit a fever pitch. Originating from the news that Google must reveal their financial information in accordance with SEC rules, the finance world is expecting Google to file an IPO at anytime.
Google Now Reading Flash Files
While Google’s inclusion of Flash files in their index is not new, their ability to read the binary in the files themselves appears to be.
Google Returns Fire At Digital Envoy
Digital Envoy, a geo-targeting service, on or around March 30th, filed a suit against longtime client Google. The suit claimed that Google has misused Digital Envoy’s technology to deliver sponsored search results.
Google In Court Over New AdWords Policy
Google’s newest policy concerning bidding on trademarked slogans for AdWords purposes has come under fire. French insurance company AXA has filed suit against the search engine for allowing others to bid on keywords that AXA has trademarked.
Google’s JewWatch Controversy Continues
Has Google manually intervened on the results of the keyword “Jew”? As reported here, this particular keyword search’s top result was JewWatch.com, a site considered by many to be anti-Semitic.
Google’s Broken Heart: PageRank Under Attack
“The heart of our software is PageRank.” This quote, from Google’s PageRank description page, contradicts opinions and hypothesis posted on forums, blogs and articles around the web. One search developer even called PageRank “a silly idea in practice.” Evidence points to Google not using “classic PageRank” in their algorithm at all these days, and many consider it all but dead.