Describes how Google can be used as a gateway to high-quality, subject-specific search directory sites.

Eric Rumsey analyses Google's popularity.

Press release announcing that Google is to invest $1 billion for a 5% stake in AOL.

Jim Hedger of the Internet Search Engines Database presents a compilation of his reactions and conclusions over weeks following Google change of 16 November.

Google announced that it has acquired Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, California-based company known for its semantic text processing technology.

Scott Rosenberg's article: "While the portal sites fiddle, Google catches fire." From Salon Magazine.

Transcript of an interview with Google's co-founder.

Harvard Law School researchers document sites filtered by international versions of Google.

David Teather's article: "The success of Google, the internet search engine, has come about through the old fashioned form of viral marketing: word of mouth."

"Google.com seems to have it all...But one thing Google doesn't seem to have -- or at least isn't answering questions about -- is a business plan."