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Yahoo’s high price for coddling Google

by Elise Ackerman and Pete Carey [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[20.Mar.08] :. Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture. In cut-throat...

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Yahoo, AOL Microsoft striving to stay relevant

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[20.Feb.08] :. In the 1990s, the Internet portal was the gateway and the gatekeeper to the Web, a place filled with a variety of content, from reprinted magazine articles to choppy playback of movie...

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Flattery or Piracy?

by Jillian Burt

[7.Dec.07] :. The business of content scraping and referral spam

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Google unveils wireless plans

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google, already the fifth-most-valuable company in the United States thanks to search ads on PCs, has a plan to move up the ranks: It wants to be the Microsoft of mobile...

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The Google gusher: Internet giant’s staff living the high life

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News, Calif. (MCT)]

[17.Oct.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—After Google’s IPO in August 2004, so much money began pouring out of the Mountain View, Calif., company that people started talking about “the Google...

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Why Yahoo, not Google, should drive your search

by Steve Johnson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[17.Oct.07] :. For the most recent chunk of our Internet lives, most of us have been on autopilot. When it comes time to look something up on the Web, we “Google” it. We don’t do this...

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Is Google getting ready to unveil a `gPhone’?

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[30.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—It has been a long, dry summer for technology bloggers—even those based far from California. Since Apple’s release of the iPhone on June 29, there has been...

 

Google’s growth has come at a price

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[22.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—Google’s historic IPO took place three years ago this month, and the Mountain View, Calif., search giant has an anniversary present for its founders: Not only did Larry...

 

YouTube outlines how it plans to make money

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[22.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—It has been Google’s $1.65 billion question: How to convert YouTube’s whopping popularity into ad dollars without turning off the site’s enthusiastic...

 

Google staffs up in nation’s capital

by Frank Davies [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[22.Jun.07] :. WASHINGTON - Slowly but surely, the government is getting Googled. Two years ago, the Google staff in Washington was one person - Alan Davidson, an expert in technology law. Now the staff numbers a...

 

Google may be eyeing massive YouTube video database

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[13.Jun.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video...

 

Google revamps search engine

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[17.May.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—In a bold and potentially risky move, Google is making dramatic changes to the way it helps hundreds of millions of people find information on the Internet. Executives...

 

Will Googling books be page in history or footnote?

by Mark Johnson [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[14.May.07] :. MILWAUKEE—Google me Ishmael. Someone somewhere in the world is searching for the opening lines of Melville’s “Moby Dick,” or maybe a phrase from Toni Morrison’s...

 

Another happy quarter for Google

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Recent research shows that money won’t necessarily make you happy. But it turns out that making other people happy, or at least trying to, can make you gobs of money. That...

 

Google to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[14.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Google has once again thwarted Microsoft’s Internet ambitions, announcing Friday that it has agreed to buy DoubleClick, a maker of advertising software, for $3.1 billion in...

 

Google faces brain drain as anniversaries hit

by Mark Schwanhausser and Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[11.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif.—Less than three years after going public, Google is confronting one of the more confounding consequences of its phenomenal success: a potential brain drain if its...

 
 
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