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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.
- More information on Google's IPO can be found on the government
website here: Google
IPO
- 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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