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OJR: Companies Subvert Search Results to Squelch Criticism
Companies are using Google-bombing, link farms and Web spam pages to place positive sites in the top search results with a goal of pushing the negative ones down.
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Search engines slow to disclose
[CNN]
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Salon: From Beta to Bona Fide
Janelle Brown's article: "Google, a favorite search engine of the plugged-in crowd, uses its $25 million in venture funding to launch a site almost unchanged from the from the "test" version."
www.salon.com/

Searching leads back to Google
A Henry Norr article on current issues facing Google.
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NewsBreaks: Google Seeks to Restore Deja Functionality
Richard W. Wiggins' article: "Since the February acquisition, Google has restored some of the lost searching functionality, and the company also says that by mid-May users of the Google Usenet index will have the ability to post new messages."
www.infotoday.com/

CNet: Developers Dig in to Google's Toolbox
Stefanie Olsen's article: "Imagine retrieving up-to-the-second results for all of your Web searches, or personalizing a high-powered navigation system for your desktop."
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BBC: Google to Sell $2.7bn in Shares
The world's favourite internet search firm, Google, confirms its long-awaited flotation on the Nasdaq or New York stock exchange, which could value the firm at $20bn.
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Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Manage Google IPO
Google Inc. hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange its initial public offering.
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Wired News: A Catalog to Catalog All Catalogs
"Google's catalog search combs the pages of more than 600 current catalogs -- 1,500 including back issues -- to help both consumers and corporations find everything from apple butter to zipper doodles."
www.wired.com/

Holiday shoppers turn to search engines
[CNN]
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