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Google's Search Will Go Beyond The Browser
Leader It may well be the world's favourite search engine but if someone else comes along tomorrow with a better way, then we'll switch overnight. News that Google has hired one of Sun's senior Java chaps and a bunch of browser specialists has kicked off...
[September 24, 2004, 12:35]
AOL Makes Desktop Search Move
News America Online on Thursday confirmed that it is testing a new search engine that scans for files on a PC's hard drive, mirroring a similar product unveiled this week by Google. AOL's desktop search engine will take on Google, Microsoft and other...
[October 15, 2004, 9:35]
Google's Android Paves Way For Mobile Supremacy
News I think the alliance is great cover for them to launch a Google phone," said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land. At the moment, Google is the most popular search engine and makes the most money off advertising on the web.
[November 7, 2007, 15:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Google's probably got some sort of charity search engine in the works and needs to get dibs on the name. And that's just the official stuff: the first search engine to dip its toe into the oceanic currents of illict media would be interesting indeed.
[January 28, 2005, 17:30]
Linspire Embeds Search Capability
News Microsoft is in an ideal spot, because they control the browser and search engine," he said. Instead of cutting and pasting words into the search engine toolbar on Google or Yahoo, users can highlight and click on a word or phrase and immediately...
[November 12, 2004, 14:20]
Google Keeping The Wolf From Firefox' Door
News The main disadvantage of the deal with Google is that native language versions of Firefox are not permitted to change the default search engine to one that is more useful for searching Web pages in a particular language.
[February 28, 2005, 14:10]
Amazon's A9 Releases Toolbar For Firefox
News The search engine is powered by technology from Google and Amazon's Alexa subsidiary, and it draws on reference information from GuruNet and the Internet Movie Database, among other sources. Unlike its rivals, the search engine organises query...
[November 2, 2004, 8:19]
Browzar Drops Overture After Privacy Backlash
News A major element of the backlash since Browzar's launch last week has been related to its utilisation of Yahoo's Overture search engine, which has outraged many users by burying impartial results behind pages of sponsored results.
[September 4, 2006, 13:45]
Regulators: Vista Search Is Fair
News How users gets their browser - whether on a new PC, as part of a Windows upgrade or downloaded from the Internet - helps determine which search engine is used in that program. Google had recently cried foul over the box, which is set to conduct Web...
[May 15, 2006, 8:50]
Google Acquisition Extends Search To Space
News The company began testing the service last year and incorporated it into its main search engine earlier this month. Google also recently unveiled Google Desktop Search, a thin-client application that lets people retrieve email, Microsoft Office...
[October 28, 2004, 9:09]
Google Keeping The Wolf From Firefox' Door
Talkback I noticed that the search engine frequently gets reset to Google. You can force its hand, however, by typing about:config in the browser window and then filter by the word "search". You can then use those options to set your search defaults as YOU...
[March 3, 2005, 1:34]
Google Ushers Web Surfers Into Its Labs
News Popular search engine Google on Tuesday launched two sites for developing experimental search and browsing technologies. The second page features experimental add-ons to Google's toolbar, a software download that lets people surfing the Web with...
[May 22, 2002, 9:15]
Ballmer: Google Wants Special Treatment In IE
News His remarks centred on the default search engine in the Web browser. IE 7 offers a list of search sites that can become a user's default search engine. They want to see a list of search providers, with the No.search provider listed first," said...
[May 12, 2006, 8:50]
Jeeves Asking Mozilla For Support
News Key Mozilla volunteers now also work for Google, and the browser showcases Google search in its interface. Ask Jeeves, which made its name as a "natural language" Web search engine, has recently expanded into areas including blog aggregation and...
[February 15, 2005, 11:45]
Firefox Lead Programmer Now A Googlista
News Firefox also has a built-in search box that offers Google's search engine as its default option. Google has hired the lead programmer of the Firefox Web browser, the newest step in the search powerhouse's encroachment onto Microsoft's turf.
[January 25, 2005, 8:30]
Google Under Fire Over Autolinking
News Google, the world's most widely used search engine, denied that the AutoLink feature is an attempt to control which destinations web surfers visit. Google's browser toolbar for Internet Explorer is raising eyebrows over a feature that inserts new...
[February 21, 2005, 8:40]
Google Browser Speculation Grows
News It has formulated shopping engine Froogle, search-inside-the-book service Google Print, and personalisation tools. Evidence is growing that may support rumours that the pre-eminent search company plans to introduce a Google-branded Web browser down...
[September 24, 2004, 8:55]
Google Cuts Out The Browser
News Search won't be about firing up your browser, going to a search engine and typing in your keywords -- it will be built into the fabric of our work. Search company Google is testing software that lets people navigate the Web without opening up an...
[November 7, 2003, 9:35]
Gartner: Google's Sidebar Is Best In Class
News Allen Weiner, Gartner’s search engine analyst, said Google Desktop was "interesting in the context of the Web-browser market which has been relying on the same technology for 10 years". In order to get better at searching for you, [the search...
[August 23, 2005, 13:55]
Browser Toolbar Wars Get Underway
News However, just about every PC user who's connected to the Internet uses the browser at least once a day, and browser toolbars that contain useful utilities such as Google's search engine will grab a user's attention, he said.
[February 8, 2006, 10:05]
