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Microsoft gives Live Search a Powerset boost
News In addition to Powerset's ability to help out on the algorithmic side of search, Microsoft also sees potential in using natural-language search to generate more relevant paid search. It will take some time for Microsoft to make full use of the...
[September 18, 2008, 9:38]
Semantic web on verge of commercial viability
News Similarly, Thomson Reuters has made semantic technology available to others through its OpenCalais service, which was originally developed to boost the company's algorithmic trading capabilities. Davies said BT is developing semantic technology...
[August 12, 2008, 9:08]
Generation tech
News It's hardly a sophisticated algorithmic index, but it makes perfect sense to children who may not know how to search like an adult or spell a keyword. The "simple search" feature at the Web site, which was designed in part by schoolchildren...
[November 18, 2005, 16:20]
Yahoo and Adobe ally on search
News A Microsoft representative said on Friday that the software giant's desktop search tool and an algorithmic Web searching engine will both be in beta testing by the end of this year. Yahoo and Adobe have formed a partnership to attempt to keep pace...
[October 25, 2004, 16:45]
Microsoft announces desktop search tool date
News The tool and an algorithmic Web searching engine will be in beta testing by year's end, a representative said on Friday. In terms of search, we should see some good MSN search technology in this calendar year, probably late the second half," John...
[October 25, 2004, 8:20]
Microsoft picks up search-technology firm
News Down the road, Microsoft plans to launch its own algorithmic search engine in hopes of competing more closely with Google. What the company did say was the acquisition builds on MSN Search's ongoing efforts to refurbish itself through a series of...
[July 16, 2004, 9:10]
Revamped MSN search goes live
News More significantly, MSN will introduce a homegrown Web crawler and algorithmic search engine in test form, giving Webmasters the chance to vet the system before it is set to launch later this year, according to the timeline of Microsoft chairman...
[July 1, 2004, 9:20]
Yahoo ups free email storage limit
News In February, Yahoo dropped Google as its algorithmic search provider and instead launched its own technology. The announcement comes a month after search rival Google said it would launch a free email service called Gmail that offers 1GB of storage...
[May 14, 2004, 9:35]
Yahoo dumps Google in Asia Pacific
News Yahoo has dumped Google's algorithmic search technology for its Australian and New Zealand portals in favour of an in-house search engine, Yahoo Search Technologies. In the search business, you do need to be able to control your own algorithmic...
[March 11, 2004, 14:00]
Search site scraps paid listings
News But such programmes drew fire from consumer advocates and the Federal Trade Commission, which called for better public disclosure of the commercial relationship between search engine providers and advertisers when it comes to serving algorithmic...
[March 3, 2004, 7:45]
Yahoo bids farewell to Google search
News Yahoo soon became Google's biggest licensing partner, letting the start-up's results appear on all algorithmic search terms. Yahoo dropped Google as the default search technology provider for its US-based sites on Tuesday, signalling the beginning...
[February 18, 2004, 7:10]
Yahoo dumps Google as search war intensifies
News Inktomi has developed so-called algorithmic search technology similar to Google's that indexes Web pages and ranks them based on search terms. We've been hard at work with the assets that we've acquired to develop our (own) algorithmic search...
[January 15, 2004, 8:05]
Google factors clicks into AdWords
News The program also syndicates the sponsored listings, along with the nonpaid, algorithmic search results with which they appear, to Google partners including America Online (AOL) and EarthLink. While some might question why the search engine provider...
[October 9, 2003, 12:40]
AOL extends Google pact indefinitely
News America Online extended its relationship with Google on Tuesday, reiterating its commitment to use the company for algorithmic and paid search results. In 2002, Google replaced Overture Services, currently in the process of being acquired by rival...
[October 8, 2003, 13:00]
Yahoo considers spurning Google for Inktomi
News Yahoo agreed to use Google's search engine for its algorithmic (non-paid) search facility in October 2002, and it has been using the service in conjunction with all of its portals with the exception of a few serving Asian markets.
[August 20, 2003, 13:00]
T-Online dumps Overture for Google
News Overture, which licensed sponsored search and Fast's algorithmic Web search to T-Online, is expected to be acquired by Yahoo later this year in a deal valued at $1.7bn (£1.06bn). Both companies license search technology and affiliated advertising...
[August 13, 2003, 10:05]
Patents crucial in search battle
News We'll add.to our technology assets Overture's impressive intellectual property portfolio of both algorithmic and sponsored search patents," he said. With the Web portal's proposed $1.63bn buyout of commercial search specialist Overture Services on...
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
Yahoo's Overture may force Microsoft's hand
News In December, Yahoo bought Inktomi for $235m, while Overture in the past eight months picked up rival algorithmic Web search technology from AltaVista and Fast Search & Transfer for a combined investment of nearly half-a-billion-dollars.
[July 15, 2003, 8:22]
Overture wins Freeserve UK Web-search contract
News Overture's win comes months after it entered the algorithmic search business, over which Google reigns. To battle Google in its own backyard, Overture bought Web navigation technology from AltaVista and Fast Search & Transfer for about $210m...
[July 9, 2003, 7:48]
Microsoft sends bot to search Web
News The software is part of MSN's effort to challenge Google by revitalizing MSN Search with its own algorithmic search technology. Gurry said there are no "immediate plans" to change MSN's relationship with Inktomi and added that MSN will increase the...
[June 19, 2003, 10:17]
