This is the laudable goal of competing Web sites Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault, as well as of a number of other groups that are attempting to create personal health records on the Web.
Every time someone clicks on those listings on Ask Jeeves' Web sites, Google pays Ask Jeeves.
The information can be used to guide motorists around congestion using digital highway signs or on Web sites like Google Maps that show traffic conditions in real time.
The information can be used to guide motorists around congestion using digital highway signs or on Web sites like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Maps that show traffic conditions in real time.
Soon, Sandberg was working on AdSense, which placed advertisements on external Web sites, with Google taking a slice of the revenues.
Naturally, the Web evolved, and Google made popular the practice of discovering sites by searching for the most relevant page across the entire Web.
Chief Executive EricSchmidtEric Schmidt's Google announced Thursday new double and triple capacities for its Mini search device, letting companies peruse their Web sites and internal networks the same way that Google's flagship search engine scours the Internet.
Google says there are 318 million other Web sites that mention the item you are selling.
So is the biggest search outfit, Overture , a little-known billion-dollar vendor that provides unbranded search services for other Web sites and has sued Google, alleging patent infringement.
Working in the open-sourcers' favor is the fact that what lawyers do for a living is quite similar to what Google's software algorithms do with Web sites.
So is the biggest search outfit, Overture (nasdaq: OVER - news - people ), a little-known billion-dollar vendor that provides unbranded search services for other Web sites and has sued Google, alleging patent infringement.
Even Google, the Web's self-proclaimed "Do no evil" company, is experimenting with a technology called AutoLink that inserts button-shape links on other people's Web sites that lead back to Google or to Google partners like Amazon.com.
The idea is that Google already has its massive search engine of public web sites.
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Google provides information that consumers use to choose which web sites to visit.
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People expect their Web sites to be found, and Google searches find them.
Google's servers use similar logic, ranking Web sites according to how many other sites link to them and how lofty the referring sites are in the ranking.
Google gave web site owners some tips for optimizing their sites, which were part common sense and part its observations of how Instant Previews preformed during testing (short answer: users are 5% more likely to be satisfied with their search results if they get to preview the sites).
But if it weren't Google News, there would be any number of other Web sites doing the same thing.
Many web sites implement some basic tools, like Google Analytics.
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It also has added to the company's clout because as a browser maker it can help define the kinds of new graphical features that can be used by sites across the Web as well as helping Google funnel Web surfers to its dominant Internet-search engine, the top driver of Google's revenue.
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For most, that means placing promotional clips on their own Web sites as well as popular video sharing sites like Google 's YouTube.
For most, that means placing promotional clips on their own Web sites as well as popular video sharing sites like Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) YouTube.
Google Analytics pulls together activities from all over the Web, including social community sites like Facebook.
As of May 2012, Google sites accounted for 66.7percent of U.S. web searches, according to comScore.
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Google this morning is unveiling a significant new tool for advertisers with large Web sites, which it calls Dynamic Search Ads.
Another part of Google, though, creates the programs that pay Web developers to put ads on their sites, thus creating the incentive to make pointless Web pages in the first place.
Google's search algorithm, capable of pulling information from hundreds of millions of Web sites in a fraction of a second, represents one of the most sophisticated tools that humans have ever developed.
Other sites, including Google Trends and Perspctv, are tracking the election zeitgeist through Web searches and news mentions.
Stephens is more leery of recent developments like Google Maps Streetview, which offers street level photographs of entire cities, and Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, which tracks the behavior of users on thousands of Web sites.
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