{"id":121,"date":"2005-03-11T20:24:38","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T00:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/03\/11\/search-wars-google-strikes-back\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T00:24:38","slug":"search-wars-google-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/11\/search-wars-google-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Wars: Google Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4719'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/newgoognews.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"397\" align=\"left\">Wow! Not since the height of the browser wars has there been such<br \/>\n        a lively new features face-off as is currently transpiring among the<br \/>\n        established giants, and a few promising newcomers, in what will surely<br \/>\n       come to be known as the Search Wars.<\/p>\n<p>Without search engines, the Internet would be worthless. Searching for<br \/>\n        information is the single most popular function of the internet, and<br \/>\n        services offering to find what you need in cyberspace will be central<br \/>\n      to the rest of all of our lives. <\/p>\n<p>Partly in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/10#a4713\">new<br \/>\n          features added to MSN search, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves<\/a>, today<a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/\"> Google<\/a> has launched a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/nwshp?hl=en&amp;gl=us\">user-customizable<br \/>\n        news page<\/a>.&nbsp; The page allows users to determine both what news goes<br \/>\n        where, and the kind of stories you want given priority within each stream,<br \/>\n        and create keyword streams.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With the new tools, users<br \/>\n            of Google News can create customized pages on the<br \/>\n                  site<br \/>\n                  that<br \/>\n                  gathers<br \/>\n                  news<br \/>\n                  stories<br \/>\n                  from<br \/>\n                  around<br \/>\n                  the<br \/>\n                  Web, the<br \/>\n                  company<br \/>\n                  said.<\/p>\n<p>          Google News users can now prioritize existing news topics such<br \/>\n                  as top stories, health, entertainment or sports to change the<br \/>\n                  look of<br \/>\n                  the<br \/>\n                  site&#8217;s front page.<br \/>\n          Users also can create new categories to capture news stories that contain<br \/>\n                  certain key words.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When<br \/>\n                    he catches wind of a breaking story or a juicy rumor, the<br \/>\n                    first two places the Dowbrigade checks for verification are<br \/>\n                    Google News and Feedster.&nbsp;The order depends on which<br \/>\n                    direction the story is coming from; bottom up (blogosphere)<br \/>\n                    or top down (mainstream media). We will definitely be checking<br \/>\n                    out this new Google Service.&nbsp;In fact, excuse us while<br \/>\n                    we configure it now&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;ncid=1212&amp;e=2&amp;u=\/nm\/20050310\/wr_nm\/tech_google_dc&amp;sid=95573503\">article<br \/>\n                    from Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/nwshp?hl=en&amp;gl=us\">Customize<br \/>\n                Google News<\/a> Page<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Not since the height of the browser wars has there been such a lively new features face-off as is currently transpiring among the established giants, and a few promising newcomers, in what will surely come to be known as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/03\/11\/search-wars-google-strikes-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}