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SEO News 2004
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- Google rolls out Google Print to compete with Amazon
for the book publisher's market.
- Google IPO hits the ground running as shares hit the
$130 per share mark.
- Yahoo! ads an anti-spyware application to the Yahoo!
toolbar which rapidly scans a computer and gives options
for what to do with the spyware that is found.
- Google issues an undisclosed number of Class A common
stock shares in order to settle a patent dispute with
Yahoo! concerning its bid-for-placement program.
- MyDoom worm partially disables Google, other popular
sites and many PC's in an unprecedented attack. The MyDoom
worm is also using infected computers to launch an attack
on the Microsoft website.
- Google may have announced GMail but Yahoo has outscooped
them by unveiling its new free webmail service offering
100mb storage and attachments up to 10mb. True, its not
1GB storage, but its bigger and its first.
- Google, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet company
is now in the quiet period before its initial public offering
aimed at reaping in $2.7 billion. Underwritten by Morgan
Stanley, the Google shares are to be sold electronically
through a Dutch auction, which is designed to even the
playing field for smaller investors.
- Google's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced
in April 2004 the upcoming IPO would be offered in an
unconventional manner.
- The Google IPO does hold some special internal employee
problems at the Google workplace since some employees
are not invested or vested with any stock, while others
stand to be millionaires in the next cube over, after
the search giant goes public.
- AOL, part of the Time-Warner merger debacle has just
exercised its 2-year old option to buy 7.4 million Google
shares for $22 million. This investment may be worth over
$1 billion in the near future when Google goes public.
- Billionaire Warren Buffet, not known for being high
on tech stocks is also a supported of Google who praises
Page and Brin for talking to their prospective owners
in a "…in a very straightforward manner".
- On April 1, 2004, in what many thought was a grand April
Fool's joke, Google announced its new free email system
called "Gmail." On a previous April 1 stunt
two years ago Google unveiled its PigeonRank technology
where a group of pigeons peck indiscriminately on a roomful
of keyboard and this is what determined how pages were
ranked on the search engine. It is no wonder that Gmail
was thought to be a similar prank, announcing that each
user of the free services would have 1Gigabyte of free
space at his or her disposal for email storage.
- Unfortunately for Google, the use of the term Gmail
is not without turmoil since a small British company,
ProNet Analytics, apparently already has the trademark
for this term and has been using it in 80 countries. Can
someone say, "Trademark search"? A couple of
other companies that may have a claim to the Gmail name
are at www.usegmail.com and www.gmail.net So, perhaps
Google could have done a Google search to come up with
these other gmailers before announcing its new product?
- Google's Florida update still has many up in arms, but
some sites that were dropped seem to be reappearing in
the listings. Apparently Google has made more modifications
to its algorithm to appease the outcry from its initial
unveiling of the Florida update.
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