T-Mobile, Google team up for mobile Internet - Jun. 29, 2005

"'With the Google homepage we want to tell our customers from the first moment that they are carrying with them the Internet they know from home,' T-Mobile board member Ulli Gritzuhn said at a news conference at T-Mobile's headquarters."

Google, Yahoo Woo Developers to Online Maps

"Both companies on Wednesday released APIs into their respective online mapping services as they attempt to attract other Web sites to use their maps."

Google sued over 'click fraud'- The Times of India

"SAN FRANCISCO: A seller of online marketing tools said on Wednesday it sued Google Inc, charging that the Web search giant has failed to protect users of its advertising programme from 'click fraud,' costing them at least $5 million. "

InformationWeek > Google > Google Brings Space To Local Search > June 28, 2005

"Google Earth, which uses broadband streaming technology, shows an aerial view of a user-requested location. The software can zoom in from space-level close enough to see streets and buildings, and overlays the search location on the picture."

Wired News: Beware the Google Threat

"In less than a decade, the company has evolved from an algorithm to a search phenomenon to a verb. Google introduced an ad-free homepage and clutter-free interface, speedier downloads and more 'relevant' results. In the process, it redefined the look and feel of the internet. When conventional wisdom held that search was little more than a free add-on for portals, Google figured out a way to make money from it. Paid search advertising accounts for $1.24 billion of the $1.25 billion Google took in last quarter.

On its way to wresting control of our desktops, Microsoft once asked, 'Where do you want to go today?' Now Google provides the answer."

Mobile Pipeline | Google Zeros In On Mobile Web

"Google Inc. on Thursday started testing a mobile-phone service that searches websites that have been designed to deliver content customized for the small screens of cellular phones."

Online Calendars Make Appt with Web

"But now, with more people connecting to the Web via high-speed broadband, wireless technology and mobile phones, online calendars are getting an update." Another Wireless Application....

Privacy issues with Google library search | CNET News.com

"A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast library collection over the Internet."

Yahoo ramps up 'deep Web' search effort | CNET News.com

"Yahoo began testing a service late Wednesday that allows people to perform simultaneous searches for information contained within subscription-based Web sites."

Google simplifies site indexing - IT Week

Now webmasters can inform Google about all their pages, prioritise in what order they want them crawled, and ensure that new pages and updates are indexed faster.

InformationWeek > Search Tools > Ask Jeeves Polishes Search Tools > June 8, 2005

"Ask Jeeves Inc. last month introduced Zoom and Web Answers, two new search services on Ask.com.

Zoom is a categorization technology that lets users expand or narrow keyword searches based on conceptually related topics.

Web Answers represents an improvement in Ask Jeeves' Smart Search technology, which the company uses to provide specific answers for queries, as opposed to a list of ranked results.
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CNN.com - Google's long memory stirs privacy concerns - Jun 3, 2005

"In an era of increased government surveillance, privacy watchdogs worry that Google's vast archive of Internet activity could prove a tempting target for abuse."

Google tests tool to aid Web indexing | CNET News.com

"Google has launched an experiment designed to speed the flow of Web site information to the search giant's index."

Forging an anti-terrorism search tool | CNET News.com

"Google is the No. 1 free tool to snoop on friends or strangers. But government agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration are investing in a new search engine being developed at the University of Buffalo to do some of their more sensitive detective work.

The technology, released as a prototype in recent weeks, is designed to mine a corpus of documents for associated ideas or connections--connections between two unrelated concepts, for example, that would otherwise go unseen or would take countless hours of investigative work to discover. "