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- Launch: searchmash, an experimental site started by Google
Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.
- News: Google launches "Features, Not Products" initiative
Sergey Brin is telling employees to stop making old products and start improving new ones. "For example, said Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Google plans to combine its spreadsheet, calendar and word-processing programs into one suite of Web-based applications."
- Launch: Google Code Search
Google now lets you do searches -- including regular expression searches -- across public source code.
- Preview: Google testing new site design
James Yu has a screenshot of a new design Google has been testing lately.
- Launch: Google Pages, new Geocities-style site-building software
Google has released a new program that gives users 100MB of web space to make simple HTML pages in.
- Launch: Google running AdWords in newspapers
Google is buying the leftover ad space in the _Chicago Sun-Times_ and filling it with AdWords ads related to the rest of the content. I wonder how they're going to charge advertisers. The domains posted are the real domains, so it can't exactly be pay-per-click.
- Launch: Google Music, search for bands and albums
- Story: Xooglers, Google's former Marketing Director tells his story
Some great stories about Google's early days, with more to come.
- Launch: Click-to-Call AdWords, Google will let you call advertisers
- Update: Blind test reveals Google offers best results
The Search Engine Experiment gives you the results from Yahoo, MSN, and Google without saying which is which. Currently, 41% of those who have taken the test picked Google (33% Yahoo, 26% MSN).
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