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Google is experimenting in trying to pay back the many Indians who helped drive the dot-com boom in the U.S. It opened its first R&D center outside the U.S., in Bangalore, India in 2004. Many programmers are now moving back to their native land to help India’s economy continue to grow. Google is loved in India. Of the [...]
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eBay is going gaga over Google. Less than a year after the two Web giants signed a billion-dollar advertising pact proclaiming a passionate partnership, a lovers’ quarrel has broken out. How will it end and will the internet ever be the same? Full article
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Just before leaving town for a month’s vacation, a divided U.S. Congress acceded to President George Bush’s requests for expanded Internet and telephone surveillance powers.
Over strong objections from civil liberties groups and many Democrats, legislators voted over the weekend to temporarily rewrite a 1978 wiretapping law that the Bush administration claimed was hindering antiterrorism investigations. [...]
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It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University. Gregarious by nature, Brin had volunteered as a guide of sorts for potential first-years - students who had been admitted, but were still deciding [...]
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It can’t be easy for Yahoo!, the Internet’s most durable portal, to play Pepsi to Google’s Coke. But if Yahoo! continues to fall further behind Google in ad sales, the company may find itself stuck a perennial second–or worse. With its stock down 36% last year and ad sales failing to keep up with Google’s, [...]
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Way back in 1993, when the Web was still young, Bill Fisher got his hands on a particularly attractive address: www.beer.com. He later sold it to Labatt Breweries of Canada for an undisclosed sum (somewhere in the seven digits, he says). Full article
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The bidding started at $300,000 and blasted through the seven-figure mark before settling at $1.8 million. No, this wasn’t Sotheby’s–nor was the object d’art a Picasso. This battle was for the URL Seniors.com. Full article
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By now, everybody, I hope, knows what LOL stands for. Most people probably recognize IMHO, BRB, and AFK. Online shorthand like this arose, of course, because it’s so hard to type full English words on a cellphone’s number keypad. The problem with these online abbreviations, however, is that they’re absolutely ancient. Full article
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The web as we know it was invented by a British academic working in Switzerland. Is a Nordic academic working in Britain about to redefine it forever?
Frode Hegland, a researcher at University College London, wants to change the basic structure of information on the net. Full article
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Google’s share price continues to reach all-time highs. Recently it hit $518.84 with the announcement of a new partnership with marketing software maker Salesforce.com. Google, the #1 search engine, seems to defy every Internet law of gravity. But one question arises with each subsequent record-high share price: is it possible for Google to get any bigger? Full article
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