Industry News

Goldman may lose $100m Google fees
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street goliath that prides itself on its close relations with the world's leading businesses, has had a damaging row with Google that may have cost it $100m in fees. [The Telegraph]

Google URL points to blog search
A discovery by several bloggers that the Google bot was requesting non-existant files from root directories lately. Many think this indicates that Google has plans to launch their own blog search engine. [Webpro News]

Google's big-bucks expansion plans
SEC filings reveal a vast capital-spending program in 2004 -- an indication of just how huge the search giant's ambitions are. [BW Online]

Google leaves curious fans wanting more
For years, closely held Google Inc. had been so secretive that when it registered last week for an initial public offering, the crush of people trying to read it nearly crashed the Securities and Exchange Commission's Web site. [Contra Costa Times]

Sonnar Internet Inc. launches new Search Engine
SonnarSearch.com makes it easy to be number 1 on their search engine while paying commissions on every search. [eMediaWire.com]

Search engine market share
The report reveals that Google is the most used search engine, garnering a 56.4% share. Yahoo is 2nd with 21.1%. [Webpro News]

Google plans to outsource AdSense billing
95% of Google's revenue comes from their AdSense/AdWords services. Last year, the search engine made $962 million in 2003 revenue and $106 million in profits. [WebPro News]

Google This: Reality Check
The search-engine's eagerly awaited IPO will attract big bucks and ballyhoo.
It won't, however, spark a fresh tech boom. [BusinessWeek}

The How and Why of Google's Auction
Lots of investors are wondering just how this unorthodox IPO process is going
to work. Here are some answers... [BusinessWeek]

Google secures search results and ad rights to Dutch portal
Marktplaats BV, the Netherlands' largest portal for want ads, has signed a deal with Google to provide AdSense ads and search engine results. Google won this deal in competition with Overture. [Webpro News]