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Microsoft sends bot to search Web
News Popular algorithmic search engines such as Google and commercial search providers such as Overture Services have become increasingly crucial to the livelihood of Web businesses. In preparation for unveiling its own algorithmic search engine...
[June 19, 2003, 10:17]
The Search review
Reviews A huge amount of electronic material attached to the Web remains invisible to search engines -- the contents of sites that are walled off by registration schemes, most people's own computers, commercial databases and so on.
[November 16, 2005, 12:10]
Microsoft.com looks for better searching
News Popular search engines such as Google and commercial search providers such as Overture Services have fuelled a resurgence in Web navigation, and have proven to be big money-makers for portals and marketers.
[August 1, 2003, 11:55]
LookSmart draws on desktop power
News Instead, search engines need to be more intelligent about directing people specifically to information relevant to their searches. Search engines, including Inktomi and Fast's AlltheWeb, already use such a service to keep indexes of product-related...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
US Report: Disney, Infoseek power alliance on Web
News During the Internet's "first wave", search engines were "powerful but one-dimensional", Infoseek's Motro said. The portal will offer the depth of Starwave's and Disney's content combined with a Web interface that will leverage the strength of the...
[June 19, 1998, 9:32]
MSN gets on search bandwagon
News All of the major search engines are working very, very hard to catch Google if not in perception but by providing a viable alternative," said Chris Sherman, associate editor of industry newsletter SearchEngineWatch.com.
[February 12, 2003, 8:14]
SlimSearch
Downloads Using several search engines, and via a simple right-click menu, SlimSearch effectively takes any piece of text whatsoever on a Web page and transforms it into hypertext. You can do normal searches, dictionary searches, address searches, and...
[September 22, 2007, 14:18]
Google protects its search results
News He said the Missouri-based company tries to educate its customers as to what the search engines consider spam, but it does not have control over what a customer does with the software. Among the search engines that WebPosition Gold analyses include...
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
Fraudsters search Google for credit-card numbers
News Google is the tool of choice because its powerful search options, such as the ability to search for a range of numbers -- useful in finding credit card data -- is not present in other companies' search engines.
[August 4, 2004, 8:45]
Protecting against everyday security risks
News For example, employees' mobile phones and PDAs can pose a gigantic risk to data security, and the use of search engines may compromise your company's privacy. If these programs become popular, will the flood of nonsense searches overload search...
[September 19, 2006, 13:05]
US Web snooping plan draws fire
News The Internet is expanding quickly, and scanning it manually with traditional search engines is tedious at best. The SEC won't disclose its red flags, but investigators now type such phrases as "get rich quick" and "free stock" into search engines...
[March 29, 2000, 9:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And how will search engines work if they can't search across the entire Internet? Google's traffic if it thinks it can force its subscribers to use its own search engine? a stance that merrily ignores the fact that everyone who connects to the...
[April 28, 2006, 18:25]
A Year Ago: Start-up plays dangerous game with music biz
News The upshot for search engines like Scour.net, Lycos and Napster? The recently passed Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 allows search engine companies to link to MP3 files. However, if notified that the link points to copyrighted music, the...
[August 17, 2000, 7:00]
Start-up plays dangerous game with music biz
News The upshot for search engines like Scour.net, Lycos and Napster? The recently passed Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 allows search engine companies to link to MP3 files. However, if notified that the link points to copyrighted music, the...
[August 17, 1999, 13:32]
Google tests snapshots of Web pages
News The search market remains highly competitive, however, and Google's recipe for success has been copied by a growing number of search engines such as WiseNut and Teoma, which hope to refine their focus on search relevance with more potent technology.
[November 1, 2001, 14:11]
Google takes on paid-search company
News Under the new environment, we get the brand name (of EarthLink) and Google, one of the most relevant search engines known for its pure results," Steen said. EarthLink quietly relaunched its search page last month using Google technology and...
[February 7, 2002, 6:31]
No date for IPO yet - Google
News Sullivan ticked off a slew of questions on the minds of attending Webmasters, rival search engines, advertisers and financial analysts, who regard Google and its possible initial public offering as a potential saviour of the Internet tech market.
[August 21, 2003, 10:25]
Measuring the successs of your Web site
News So you've blitzed the search engines and Web directories, traded a few links and ad banners, and emailed all your relatives who are online, begging them to check out your new Web site. A jump in your home page counter is a good indicator that your...
[January 20, 2004, 13:45]
GuruNet launches search service
News GuruNet -- a reference service that bypasses search engines to yield succinct information on terms in any document -- launched a new Web site on Monday that it insists will not compete with Google. We are not competing head to head with any of the...
[January 4, 2005, 8:35]
ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations
News The internet providers offered several recommendations for members of their industry, as well as advertising networks and search engines, with respect to behavioural-targeted advertising. During the hearing, the ISPs, along with Gigi Sohn...
[September 26, 2008, 10:14]
