Google’s much anticipated IPO could be filed as early as this week - according to various trusted sources. Google has completed an audit that clears the way for an anticipated filing of an initial public offering (IPO) as early as this week. The report on the “to be filed someday soon” IPO from Google is […]
Entries from January 2004
Google IPO could be Filed This Week !?!
January 27th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
MyDoom Email Worm/Virus Spreading : VIRUS ALERT
January 27th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
New worm Mydoom.A.worm has already reached red alert status according to the virus labs of Panda Software. There have already been many incidences with thousands of users in numerous countries. The ability of MyDoom.A to spread rapidly, as well as the damage it is leaving behind, makes Mydoom.A.worm as serious as last summers Bugbear and […]
Google Grants (AdSense Ads) help Non-Profits
January 27th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Sean Kerner looks into the secrets behind those non-profit default ads seen on AdSense ads and how helpful “Google Grants” can be to the non-profit world. Kerner does not, however, go into the amount of tax money Google saves by donating this high profile space to non-profits… or how to get your organization into the […]
Security Holes Take Out Google’s Orkut
January 27th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
The Register reports that Social Networking services like Friendster or Google’s Orkut are huge targets for hackers.
The name means “to cum” in Finnish slang - literally, to orgasm - but the Orkut social networking service that Google launched on Friday was utterly spent by Sunday afternoon.
Members of the Friendster-clone were greeted with a message […]
Yahoo’s RSS Reader goes LIVE on My Yahoo
January 26th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Yahoo has just released the Beta Version of their RSS Aggregator to be used with the Yahoo “My Yahoo” personalized front page service. RSS can be used to read news headlines from non-Yahoo sources that are not included in the Yahoo news database. News sites, Web logs (blogs), and other web sources such as discussion […]
Gigablast Search goes Wayback with Archived Web
January 26th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Gigablast, everyone’s favorite non-commercialized “hey, this is like Google back in 1999″ search engine, soley owned by Matt Wells, has just made news again. Gigablast search results now include links to the Wayback Machine, showing archived versions of web pages.
For example, a search for Yahoo will show links under the results for “older copies.” Click […]
Microsoft Search Toolbar to Rival Google & Yahoo
January 26th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Microsoft is reported to announce today that it will introduce a browser based toolbar that includes a window for searching MSN search using. This directly reflects that MSN has decided to take a serious run at establishing itself as a search engine giant, in turn- a search advertising monster.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, […]
Playboy & AOL End Search Keyword Lawsuit
January 26th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 7 Comments
Playboy and Netscape/AOL settled a 5-year-old lawsuit, after a federal appeals court ruled thatAOL/Netscape could be held liable for the unauthorized use of trademarks in search engine ads.
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco found Playboy can further escalate charges that Excite and Netscape violated its trademark by selling banner advertisements […]
Yahoo vs. Google ÷ MSN = Uh Oh!
January 24th, 2004 by anthonyparsons | 6 Comments
Yahoo, the old superpower of the search engine world is now going to go head to head with the current superpower of the search engines, Google. Uh-Oh, look out, MSN is starting to play the game too! Ok, let me put it simpler, Google is the super search engine, Yahoo is the super directory and MSN, well, MSN is not much currently. Stay tuned though, Bill Gates is stirring the pot.
Google Releases Orkut- Social Friend Making Network
January 23rd, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments
Google has just slipped into the friends/buddies/dating/social networking world by releasing a new service service- orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google software engineer who developed the project during free personal time allowed to him by Google.
Google allows their employees to spend 20% of their time working on personal projects- Google says that this encourages […]
