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Google Desktop faces elementary threat
News A Chicago-based company is set to launch on Friday technology that will compete with Google Desktop Search and its Sidebar customisation feature. The context-sensitive Windows search tool, developed by Chicago-based Intellext, is based on...
[September 23, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft foresees ad revolution after Powerset buy
News Microsoft bought search start-up Powerset with the expectation that its natural-language processing technology would give a better understanding of search queries and the content of web pages. However, the company also believes Powerset's...
[August 20, 2008, 14:14]
New service aims to help developing world in research
News Scientists in developing countries may soon have better access to peer research on the Internet, thanks to a partnership between search specialists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Elsevier.
[December 14, 2005, 15:30]
Microsoft brains go head-to-head with Google
News Speaking in Sydney at the Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, professor Jennifer Tour Chayes said Microsoft is patenting new search algorithms with a view to replacing the Inktomi technology currently powering MSN's...
[July 9, 2003, 8:49]
Google: A trailblazer for Web services?
News Focused on generating revenue from its technology as it prepares for an expected initial public offering, the search destination may have become a grassroots trailblazer. When Google recently opened its technology so that third-party developers of...
[May 7, 2002, 12:32]
AOL axes staff over privacy breach
News Two AOL employees have been fired, and its chief technology officer is resigning, after the release of Web search data from thousands of AOL members prompted widespread criticism of the company. It is unclear whether AOL's release of the user...
[August 22, 2006, 8:40]
Yahoo seeks search-ad revenue with 'Boss' project
News In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine on top of the internet company's technology. The service, which entered public beta testing on Wednesday night, is called...
[July 10, 2008, 8:36]
TuneWiki for iPhone
Downloads Buy the song you're listening to from iTunes with 1 click; comprehensive lyrics search database; Music video Search; "Blip" technology - let your friends in other social networks know what you are playing in real-time; Skins - change the look...
[July 13, 2009, 22:17]
Web search finds local angle
News Metamend, based in Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada, last week introduced new technology that helps businesses feed data on their physical location to Web search engines. For example, if a traveler is visiting New York and types in "sushi" to...
[February 17, 2003, 8:51]
Google rolls out changes to aid complicated searches
News Wolfram Research, for example, plans to reveal a search technology called Wolfram Alpha in May that is specifically designed to handle longer questions people might ask a search engine, and some of Google's new changes appear to help the company...
[March 25, 2009, 14:45]
Search sites sport shortcut to flight status
News The latest search shortcuts join a parade of technology advancements in Web navigation. Yahoo and Google are offering new search tricks for Web surfers, with the ongoing goal of becoming indispensable.
[January 12, 2004, 8:40]
Google wannabes search for success
News It also has earned the favour of search mavens, partly for its focus on search technology and for its abstinence from the kind of commercial extras that characterise many portals. Signaling the widespread acceptance of the model, Microsoft's MSN...
[August 28, 2001, 15:25]
Microsoft 'Newsbot' apes Google News
News The page will let visitors create their own customised news feeds that are powered by MSN's new search technology, the company said. Although news aggregation services have been a feature of portal sites such as Yahoo since the mid-1990s, the rise...
[July 27, 2004, 8:15]
Hopefuls seek slice of Google's search-ad billions
News Ad-technology hopefuls are angling for ways to take a cut for themselves of Google's estimated $10.4bn annual search-advertising market. The technology, which updates its previous ad platform, lets local advertisers buy online search ads, 1-800...
[July 30, 2008, 8:14]
Desktop search 'a likely target for malware'
News He warns that, because desktop search tools can index and categorise that information, virus writers are likely to start exploiting the technology. At the time, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at antivirus firm Sophos, said he expected...
[December 14, 2004, 11:00]
MSN splits into two
News The information unit will oversee the MSN Web portal, the company's search technology initiative, and its other media and e-commerce-related services. Mehdi will also spearhead Microsoft's attempts to create an online music store and its investment...
[October 30, 2003, 9:35]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
News In terms of search, we should see some good MSN search technology in this calendar year, probably late the second half," John Connors, Microsoft's chief financial officer, said in the conference call.
[October 25, 2004, 8:20]
Start-up targets more personal search
News If search developers are successful in building such technology, they could help millions of people better navigate the Web while raising the profile of numbers of obscure sites. Though Kaltix has disclosed little about its technology, the start-up...
[August 11, 2003, 14:30]
Microsoft unveils its answer to Google AdSense
News As with ads on search sites, the advertiser pays only when a reader clicks on one of the ads, and revenue is shared with the publisher and the company operating the ad service. Click-through rates on such services are typically far lower than for...
[April 23, 2009, 12:43]
Microsoft tests Google News UK rival
News MSNBot was Microsoft's first step in a multiyear plan to build new search technology that bridges Microsoft's home and business customers. You can search to find news related to particular topics, or browse the sections to find news in Sports...
[November 18, 2003, 8:50]
