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Google Friends Newsletter for May 15, 2002

 • You've Got Search! Google Partners with America Online
 • Big Business: B2B Ranks Google a Top 10 B2B Advertising Site
 • Google Answers: Tough Questions Answered at a Low, Low Price
 • Google Web APIs: "Just the Juice We Need"
 • Now It Can Be Told: PigeonRank Technology Gives Google Wings
 • Nice Folks Are Saying Nice Things About Google
 • Go from Google User to Bona Fide Googler: We're Hiring

Dear Google Friends,

The past few weeks at Google have been particularly productive ones, with major news about our partners and our services. Read on to get the latest scoop on everything from AOL to APIs, with a quick trip back to April 1 for a peek at the beaks that power our search.


You've Got Search! Google Partners with America Online

By far the biggest buzz at the Googleplex over these past weeks was the announcement of Google's strategic partnership with America Online. Google will begin powering the search areas of AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com, and Netscape this summer, and has already begun providing targeted paid listings to AOL properties. According to Bob Pittman, COO-elect of AOL Time Warner: "Google is the reigning champ of online search. We're committed to providing AOL members and web users with the very best in online tools, content, and convenience, and we're very pleased to bring Google's popular platform to our users."

Google is just as pleased to have been selected by AOL to provide search and advertising services to its 34 million members and tens of millions of website visitors. The partnership provides an immediate benefit to advertisers in the Google AdWords Select program, who will now be able to reach AOL's audience of potential customers as well as those searching on Google itself.

See a sampling of the press coverage on the AOL-Google partnership announcement at:

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

To participate in the Google AdWords Select program, sign up for an AdWords Select account at:

https://adwords.google.com/select/main


Big Business: B2B Ranks Google a Top 10 B2B Advertising Site

We've always known Google was good for business. In fact, we estimate we'll get about 10 billion business-to-business search queries over the next year. That's why we were thrilled to be included in the B2B magazine Media Power 50, an annual review of the most powerful targeted B2B advertising outlets. Google now ranks as the #5 business- to-business advertising property and the #1 B2B website, according to B2B magazine. We're in good company: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Fortune magazine also made the top ten.

http://www.btobonline.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=9089


Google Answers: Tough Questions Answered at a Low, Low Price

Everybody has questions. In most cases, Google search is an incredibly fast way to answer them. But some ("Should I buy or lease my next car?" "Why is there air?") are trickier or more time-consuming than others.

To help Google users over those hurdles, we launched Google Answers, a service powered by human researchers with search expertise. When you post a question, you say what you're willing to pay (between $5 and $50) and how quickly you need a reply. If the answer you get back satisfies, you pony up what you promised. To spread the benefit around, your answer is posted to the Google Answers site so registered users can add their two cents or profit from yours.

While queries like "Where did I put my keys?" and "Why did I marry this guy?" are problematic, plenty of topics remain fair game. For instance:

  • How can I keep ice dams from damaging my cathedral ceiling?
  • How can I find teacher's salary scales for the Cincinnati area?
  • Describe the manufacturing process for commercial soya sauce.

Google Answers boasts a stunning research team with expertise in areas from biochemical engineering to public policy. Feel like joining this illustrious crew? Sign up to become one of Google's paid researchers:

https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=apply

To try out Google Answers:

https://answers.google.com/answers/main


Google Web APIs: "Just the Juice We Need"

Software coders are giving the new Google Web APIs an enthusiastic response, as recorded in developer weblogs, newsgroups, and discussion sites across the Net. The APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) enable software programs to query Google directly and draw on more than 2 billion web documents worth of data. The idea is to let developers use Google for new and useful tasks that would have been impossible before. To that end, Google released example code for Java, Perl, and .NET. Outside developers have already kicked in code for more than 25 other environments.

Now that programs can tap directly into Google search, what questions will they ask? "That's where the mind bombs will come from," replies noted developer Dave Winer, who expects a flurry of innovation as coders use the Google Web APIs to make the Internet one big scripting environment. "Google is just the juice we need," says Winer. Early entries support his claim. Among the more creative:

To dip your fingers in the code, or to learn a little more, visit:

http://www.google.com/apis/


Now It Can Be Told: PigeonRank Technology Gives Google Wings

To mark the arrival of April, Google's research team revealed for the first time the secret technology that powers the world's leading search engine.

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

Note: No pigeons were harmed in the production of this report.


Nice Folks Are Saying Nice Things About Google

On April 17, Google received the MIT Students' Choice award for the fourth annual MIT Sloan School of Management eBusiness Awards in Cambridge, Mass.

On April 24, Google Groups, Google's complete 20-year archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings, was honored with Software Development magazine's coveted JOLT Award – a can of Jolt Cola ("Twice the Caffeine") encased in Lucite.

Last but not least, we're going to the Webby Awards again! Google has been nominated in two categories this time around: Best Practices, which we won in 2001, and Technical Achievement, which we won in 2000. Will we double up in 2002? Cross your fingers for us. Or, better yet, show your love by picking Google for both categories in the Webby Awards People's Voice voting.

http://www.webbyawards.com/main/
http://www.webbyawards.com/peoplesvoice/


Go from Google User to Bona Fide Googler: We're Hiring

If you'd like to apply your abundant energy and talent to creating the world's best search service, this may be the moment to take your love for Google to the next level. The main attraction is making life better for millions of search users worldwide, but joining the Google team also involves free lunches and snacks, massage therapy, and roller hockey. Most of our departments are hiring, notably our engineering crew and our European offices. Does the prospect of signing on at Google inspire you? Then check out our jobs page and send us your resume.

Our current openings can be found at:

http://www.google.com/jobs/great-people-needed.html


These are exciting times at Google. Thanks for your interest and support as we continue to grow. We look forward to sharing news with you in the coming months and wish you the very best.


The Google Team


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