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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]
Overture to buy AltaVista
News We, as many observers know, have been looking at whether and how to add algorithmic search to our arsenal over the last year," said Ted Meisel, Overture president and chief executive. Algorithmic search is a highly engineered product.this was the...
[February 19, 2003, 8:18]
Internet search rings in the changes
News They are being displaced by algorithmic search tools and commercial services that many people -- Abbott among them -- now believe do a better job in satisfying Web surfers and advertisers. to reinvent its search business to better compete with an...
[March 24, 2003, 15:27]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
With Google at gates, Yahoo! arms itself
News has actually never owned significant algorithmic back-end search technology of its own. s decision to buy search technology also-ran Inktomi in the face of a growing competitive threat by search standard-bearer Google.
[December 24, 2002, 10:23]
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]
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]
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]
The week in review: Sobig, broadband and Ratbots
News One of Europe's top providers of algorithmic, non-commercial search results has teamed with the region's top commercial listings provider. European search partners fight US threat Talking of Europe, you can now find out how European countries stack...
[January 17, 2003, 16:54]
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]
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]
Google does Disney deal
News The search technology company said the deal with Disney will include its algorithmic and sponsored results for Go.com queries. Google said on Monday it has begun providing Web search results to Walt Disney's Go.com in a deal that will replace one...
[March 10, 2003, 15:23]
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]
Overture acquisitions target Google
News Overture said it would offer its distribution affiliates combinations of Overture's paid-placement product, a paid-inclusion product and algorithmic search. Fast makes real-time search and filter technology.
[February 26, 2003, 11:24]
