Google yesterday responded via blog to reports that they fell victim to a DOS (deny of service) attack on their search engine by a new version of the MyDoom virus. Seems like with a looming IPO, being a huge corporate influence, and multiple acquisitions Google has now taken a seat next to Microsoft at the [...]

Reporters Without Borders yesterday deplored the “irresponsible” policies of major US Internet firms Yahoo ! and Google in bowing directly and indirectly to Chinese government demands for censorship and called for a code of conduct to be imposed. Yahoo ! has been censoring its Chinese-language search-engine for several years and rival firm Google, which recently [...]

Bambi Francisco at CBS MarketWatch put together an excellent historical timeline of search engines going for the gold in the search commerce field. 1996: Search goes public (all IPOs are split-adjusted prices. Source: Dealogic) Jan. 1996: Google founders collaborate on search engine called BackRub April 1, 1996: Lycos goes public at $4 a share April [...]

Apparently Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, and Overture are all under attack by a version of the MyDoom Virus. MSN Search is working. Storm Center Reports: Latest MyDoom search engine use (initial analysis. more details, and eventual corrections, will be posted as they become available) The latest version of MyDoom, which started arriving in peoples mail boxes [...]

Reports are flying in from across the country that Google’s search engine hasd not been working for the past hour in the United States (11:30 am – 12:30 pm EST). There has been no statement released by Google as to why the search engine is not working. Here is the error: Server Error The service [...]