Search Engines

Google Finance launched

March 21, 2006

Google launched its finance service today to compete with Yahoo and MSN‘s offerings. From the WSJ: Google Finance follows the traditional recipe for such offerings, providing a mix of stock quotes and charts, company news and corporate data. It is too early to know whether Google Finance will steal users from existing offerings, but the [...]

Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us

December 9, 2005

Yahoo! has acquired del.icio.us today (via Om Malik) No financial details were released. Not sure what this will mean for the service. I recently started using del.icio.us more frequently as I’m finding additional uses for the service. A great example can be seen in this RSS News page I’m experimenting with for the EvolvePoint web [...]

Ultimate Guide to Google Services

November 25, 2005

TipMonkies has a great list entitled The Ultimate Guide to Google Services (via LifeHacker). Google watchers will be familiar with most of these, but the sheer number of services that Google is now offering is impressive.

Google Analytics released

November 14, 2005

Google launched its Analytics service today. I’m pretty excited about this service as we’re a big user of Google AdWords as well as Google AdSense at EvolvePoint. This seems to be the first public offering of web analytics from Google since their acquisition of Urchin. Although I’m very interested to see how Google Analytics integrates [...]

Google aquires Urchin

March 29, 2005

InsideGoogle reports that Google is purchasing the web analytics company Urchin for somewhere in the order of $30 million. It looks like Google could integrate Urchin into its advertising programs as well as Blogger.

Google filters

February 21, 2005

Blog Business World has a detailed article on search engine optimization, specifically on the possibility of .

As Google is still the 800-lb gorilla of search engines, I always take the time to read up on Google developments. Any process they implement typically affects all our sites, both business and personal.

Interesting Google facts

January 14, 2005

Reading Frank Barnako’s latest Internet Daily column, I saw an interesting mention of a recent interview with Google’s Product Manager, Marissa Mayer. This is a highly recommended read as it provides some fascinating insights into the founders and culture of Google. The interview specifically underscores the importance of focusing on and managing to the user experience.

SearchEngineWatch also has some additional stories on Google from Mayer.