Google's privacy under scrutiny for IPO
47 Google Incs decision to go public will draw even more attention to what many see as inadequate privacy for the top Web search providers users watchdogs say
As a publicly traded company sixyearold Google would have to disclose more information about its operations and begin answering to shareholders which would make it harder to avoid controversies like the one that erupted when it introduced its Webbased email service last month...
New Zealand News - Technology - Peter Griffin: Google's Gmail leaps to front in the space race
A couple of years back I interviewed an amiable chap called Sabeer Bhatia otherwise known in tech circles as Mr Hotmail
Bhatia had a fantastic story to tell A story of how he arrived in the from India on a scholarship with 250 380 in his back pocket and within a few years had sold his startup company to Bill Gates for about 400 million
Hotmail you see was Bhatias baby Hed developed it with his software developer mate Jack Smith to get around a problem with email they didnt like the restrictive policies of their corporate email accounts
Now isnt that a familiar gripe...
How small search engines compete
The success of Google and its major rivals has legions of upstarts
hoping to be the next big Internet search destination or at least rise above
obscurity
Dozens of small Web sites offer ways of finding information that differ
at least modestly and in some cases radically from some of the most popular
search engines
They vary in quality from useful to useless But their mere existence
illustrates the continuing quest for new and better search technologies
Most industry observers doubt that a new search engine will challenge the
leaders Google Yahoo and Microsofts...
Much Better Service, Jeeves
Marcos Sorensen the artist who created the natty butler that
emblazons the Ask Jeeves Internet search engine can think big again
Confined to designing logos for company Tshirts presentations and the
Web site in recent years because of limited advertising he is now helping
design a giant balloon in the butlers likeness for Macys Thanksgiving Day
Parade again
The decision by Ask Jeeves executives to splurge on the parade a major
marketing event underscores the new era at the company It has emerged from
the brink of extinction during the dotcom downturn to become consistently
profitable...
MSN buys e-mail search firm, aims to compete with Google, Yahoo
July 16
Wash Microsoft Corps online division has bought email search firm Lookout Inc as part of efforts to improve its own search technology and compete with Google Inc and Yahoo Inc
Terms of the deal announced Thursday were not disclosed
San Franciscobased Lookout makes software that helps users more quickly search through email stored in Microsofts Outlook mailbox Outlook is part of Microsofts Office software package
Lisa Gurry an director said the company will incorporate Lookouts technology into its planned new search offering...