Patent granted Decemebr 2009

http://tinyurl.com/y9ga67p

Clusters similar images based on characteristics found in both the text surrounding images

http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com

Timeline of the history of search engines

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/search-engine-history/13152/

Google Parody

http://unluckytime.com/

Review video for a review of Show Options enhancement.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-and-other-updates.html

How Search Options works

http://searchengineland.com/up-close-with-google-search-options-26985

Google Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explains how AdWords works.

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/introduction-to-ad-auction.html

Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7l0a2PVhPQ

"conversion rate doesn’t vary much based on ad position."

http://searchengineland.com/varian-shares-adwords-secrets-%e2%80%93-will-he-bring-transparency-to-google-24968

http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10215

US (19) , Europe (12), Russia (1), South America (1), & Asia (3)

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/11/map-of-all-google-data-center-locations/

"How many data centers does Google have? Nobody knows for sure."

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/03/27/google-data-center-faq/

Google = 450,000 Servers

http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/06/google_data_cen.html

``Gartner reckons that Google now makes use of more than 1 million servers.``

http://www.pandia.com/sew/481-gartner.html

" ... 500 IP addresses used by the Google search engine"

http://64.233.161.99/

Estimate of the number of Google servers

http://seekingalpha.com/article/64892-google-s-one-million-servers-the-new-heavy-industry?source=feed

Googleplex in The Dalles, Oregon

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html?ex=1307937600&en=d96a72b3c5f91c47&ei=5090

Discusses number of servers and how the corporation works.

http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=182560,00.asp

Harper`s article about The Dalles

http://harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-03/index.html

State-by-state list of where Google operates

http://searchengineland.com/070426-104031.php

2003 Article by Google Employees

http://216.239.37.132/papers/googlecluster-ieee.pdf

April 2003 article; Select the Download: PDF Version

http://labs.google.com/papers/googlecluster.html

Rather than buy servers, Google has built them from the beginning.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

"advanced data center cooling system"

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/11/30/google-patent-reveals-data-center-innovations/

http://www.ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html

"The buzz about the omnipotence of Google left us wondering, what do students think about conducting research?"

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/head/

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-03-02-n19.html

http://www.google-watch.org/

UK's Time HIgher Education

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402225&c=1

Atlantic Monthly article: Is the Web changing how we read?

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Pointers to sources and related readings to Carr`s article, ``Is Google Making Us Stupid``

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/08/is_google_makin.php

"Research isn’t a Google search"

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/17/institute

http://watchinggooglelikeahawk.com/

Phil Bradley in UK's Ariadne

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/search-engines/

Search engines do have biases.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060702200025/http://www.stanford.edu/~amd/download/thesis_final.pdf

"critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture."

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/query/

http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/

http://blogsearch.google.com/

Official Google Blog

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

http://blog.outer-court.com/google/

Garett Rogers ZDNet

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/

Matt Cutts is a Google Engineer.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=875384

http://scholar.google.com/

http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/webwise/slides/Needham.htm

http://opencrs.com/rpts/RS22356_20051228.pdf

The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281

"bibliography presents selected English-language electronic works about Google Print"

http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2005/10/25/the-google-print-controversy-a-bibliography/

"presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search."

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm

List from Google

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/partners.html

Listing of Google Book Search sites/resources

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=google+book+search&x=0&y=0

A directory of Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs), created by site owners & Google

http://www.customsearchguide.com/

Explains PageRank, the Dance and linking

http://www.webworkshop.net/google-articles.html

Directory of sites covering Google

http://google.indicateur.com/

http://www.googleguide.com

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/top-10-google-myths-revealed

``Is Google rewriting the rules of good management from top to bottom, in ways that every executive ought to study?``

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118712692927897649.html?mod=hps_us_editors_picks

Source: The Economist

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9719610

http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/05/15/information_safety_and_accuracy_is.htm

Posters and other useful materials for the classroom

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Availability, Credibility, Authorship, External Links, Legality

http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/article2.html

Directory of Newletters

http://groups.google.com/group/librarian-newsletter

``Google uses more than 100 different factors to determine whether a site is trusted or reputable.``

http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/article3.html

http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0604.html

``We use many factors besides PageRank.``

http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2005_12/article1.html

Google % of Use Worldwide

http://www.e3internet.com/downloads/global-search-report-2007.pdf

``In April, 61 percent of visitors from home.``

http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_080514.pdf

``Internet search engine Google has become the UK's top brand for the first time.``

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7516343.stm

81% of the market in India

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2400

``Russia Yandex holds 55% of the market compared with Google’s 21%.``

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article4596416.ece

Google's Chinese name, "Gu ge," means "valley song,"

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160818/google_share_of_china_search_market_inches_up_in_2008.html

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_google_a_semantic_search_engine.php

No changes expected in SEARCH in the next three years.

http://searchengineland.com/070713-115541.php

Discusses words per query

http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19050/?a=f

Crawl dates replaced with hours since last crawl

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/finding-fresh-results.html

Google Dance Explained and Google Dance Tool

http://www.seochat.com/googledance/

``The job of the algorithm is to best match Web pages with people's search terms.``

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9921148-7.html

Author: Phil Craven

http://www.webworkshop.net/google_fresh_crawl.html

Matt Cutts explains that incremental changes are done daily to the algorithm. (2009)

http://searchengineland.com/what-happened-to-the-monthly-google-dance-26452

Author: Phil Craven

http://www.webworkshop.net/google-dance.html#checking_rankings

http://www.google.com/about.html

http://www.google.com/librariancenter/newsletter/0604.html

http://www.googleguide.com/google_works.html

Pages indexed by September 2005

http://tinyurl.com/3yowby

``PageRank is just one of more than 200 signals we use to determine the ranking of a Web site.``

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9999038-93.html

``We use more than 200 signals, including PageRank algorithm, to determine which pages are most important.``

http://www.google.com/technology/

View the video narrated by Matt Counts

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/understanding-google-from-spidering-to-results/5348/

http://tinyurl.com/gewa7

Investigating "how the Google generation searches for information & the implications for the country's colleges"

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/googlegen.aspx

Turns Google into a near real-time search engine

http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/the-return-of-the-url-hack-finding-googles-really-recently-indexed-content/

Video presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GtgSkmDnbQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7e3AR2k0foM

``Last year we made over 450 improvements to the algorithm.``

http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4259137.html

1999 Interview

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/09/googles_first_steps.html

Article Focus: Links

http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html

Short non-technical article from Google`s Librarian Central

http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0512_01.html

http://www.microsoft-watch.org/cgi-bin/ranking.htm

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/pagerank-link-patterns-the-new-flow-of-link-juice

Visual display of PageRank

http://searchengineland.com/070508-152900.php

Technical Article

http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/index.html

Review Nike and Zappos for Shoes section for ``the relevancy of words``

http://searchengineland.com/070426-011828.php

http://www.stonetemple.com/blog/?p=173

Google's "Domain Preference" for Wikipedia

http://www.thegooglecache.com/white-hat-seo/googles-new-algorithm-ifdomainwikipediaorgrank1/

Discusses .edu and .gov and that they do not automatically improve PR

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/05/google-pagerank-what-do-we-really-know-about-it/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-pagerank-works-why-the-original-pr-formula-may-be-flawed

"explains how Google determines trusted sites & elaborates on the factors in detail including the PageRank algorithm"

http://www.pandia.com/sew/1012-google-page-rank.html

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-maile-ohye.shtml

Director of Product Management for Google Local

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-carter-maslan.shtml

Head of the Webspam team

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-061608.shtml

Group Product Manager

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-dick-costolo.shtml

SEO Strategist

http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-adam-lasnik-012408.shtml

Marissa Mayer is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/marissa-mayer-on-charlie-rose-the-future-of-google/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/07/eric-schmidt-tells-charlie-rose-google-is-unlikely-to-buy-twitter-and-wants-to-turn-phones-into-tvs/

'09: "Wouldn't it be nice if Google understood the meaning of your phrase?"

http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_and_semantic_web/google_ceo_hints_at_semantic_contextual_search.html

Investor conference interview

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/17/fresh-evidence-that-search-is-still-competitive-not-so-fast/

http://66.102.9.104

http://64.233.161.104

http://64.233.187.104

http://64.233.189.104

http://64.233.185.104

http://64.233.183.104

http://64.233.179.104

http://64.233.171.104

http://64.233.167.104

http://216.239.51.99

http://72.14.205.104

http://72.14.207.104

http://66.102.11.104

Queries multiple datacenters

http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/google-multidc-rank-check.htm

2006 article with 39 centers

http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/learning-from-googles-data-centers.html

``a fired federal employee wasn’t harmed when an official used Google to research his prior work history``

http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/today_in_stupid/court_not_illegal_to_google_your_employees.html

http://tinyurl.com/yksxfw

Case could establish EU law on Adwords.

http://searchengineland.com/080604-122019.php

New Jersey woman on trial for murdering her husband did a Google search on the phrase, ``How to commit murder?``

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;504192086

Yale Law School Syllabus

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/jbalkin/syllabi/theinformationsocietysyllabusspring2007.htm

Google v American Blind and Wallpaper Factory Inc.

http://washington.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/05/07/daily78.html

Domainer Litigation

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/06/google_sued_in.htm

"time as a dimension of ranking pages"

http://tinyurl.com/cvmq5

http://tinyurl.com/ynkl47

http://tinyurl.com/23x4el

http://tinyurl.com/27sk9a

http://tinyurl.com/yqgfg2

Synonyms

http://tinyurl.com/y9ga67p

Checks the Google PageRank values for a list of URLs

http://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php

Checks the ranking of a webpage in Google

http://www.googlerankings.com/

Enter words, names, or phrases to determine which one occurs on more webpages

http://www.googleduel.com/original.php

Enter names and adjectives to determine who`s tops for the adjectives

http://www.googleduel.com/googlebusinessmain.php

Queries multiple datacenters

http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/google-multidc-rank-check.htm

Change the site and d/w/y parameter

http://searchengineland.com/070831-093959.php

http://www.faganfinder.com/google.html

http://www.soople.com/

http://www.staggernation.com/cgi-bin/gaps.cgi

http://www.staggernation.com/garbo/

http://babelplex.com/

Tag-Cloud technique and Topic-Mapping features for results identification

http://deeperweb.com/

``We are at the age of Google.``

http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google.html

``Because of Google, the diverse standards to rank the relevancy of information on the Web converged.``

http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google-2-open-sesame.html

``Google and Web 2.0 are twins.``

http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google-3-web-20.html

``three major negative impacts Google``

http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008/08/age-of-google-4-future.html

http://www.gahooyoogle.com

http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

http://www.pandia.com/sew/526-touchgraph.html

http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html

Replaced Google Zeitgeist

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Daily list of hot search queries; note number of words per query

http://www.google.com/trends

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

http://searchengineland.com/070622-085337.php

Clarification of 25% figure: ``ballpark estimate``

http://searchengineland.com/070629-143949.php

Google Usage in % in Countries Worldwide

http://www.e3internet.com/downloads/global-search-report-2007.pdf

Review of study analyzing user behavior within Google search results

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623689

``Compare seasonal trends, geographic distributions, and category-specific searches`` to understand searcher behavior.

http://google.com/insights/search/#

Source: Blogoscoped

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-04-13-n13.html

Link Directory of Important Google Information

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001208.html

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/05/download-googles-help-files.html