"Google.com seems to have it all...But one thing Google doesn't seem to have -- or at least isn't answering questions about -- is a business plan."

Andrew Orlowski's article: "Google has opened its kimono on some new labs work, soliciting feedback for four experimental features."

"Google's catalog search combs the pages of more than 600 current catalogs -- 1, 500 including back issues -- to help both consumers and corporations find everything from apple butter to zipper doodles."

Five years ago, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their fledgling startup, notes Chris Sherman.

Transcript of an interview with Google's co-founder.

"While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal."

Google announced that it has acquired Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, California-based company known for its semantic text processing technology.

David Teather's article: "The success of Google, the internet search engine, has come about through the old fashioned form of viral marketing: word of mouth."

Liane Gouthro's article: "Fickle Web surfers often switch from one search engine to another as if they were brands of soap. But one that has drawn a loyal following is Google, a search engine launched last fall with a different twist."

Om Malik's article: "The reason why all these Valley hotshots are going gaga over Google is because the company has a search technology that is far better than anything else out there."