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Google set to woo non-Internet users with voice search
Talkback Sites need the traffic so they can sustain themselves (via advertising or selling products), but if someone creates a wall that is appealing and is a buffer not to go to another site, these smaller sites which rely on google and other search...
[March 25, 2004, 19:57]
Thumbnails ruled ok
News Search engines' display of miniature images is fair use under copyright law, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, but the legality of presenting full-size renditions of visual works is yet to be determined.
[July 8, 2003, 10:52]
iSeek
Downloads iSeek is an internet search utility that allows users to search multiple search engines at the same time. Upon pressing "Search" iSeek will retrieve search results from all the search engines selected, and return the results in an easy to use...
[April 3, 2000, 8:00]
Five years ago: Web site offers search engine gen
News A new site dedicated to monitoring Internet search engines has appeared. Or how many free Web pages provided by Internet access providers may be intentionally passed over by search engines. The site is a superset of the existing A Webmaster's Guide...
[June 15, 2002, 7:02]
Gurt Search
Downloads You type in what you are looking for and pick a search engine (out of 50 + search engines) and click search, It will return that search engine's results in you default internet browser. With GurtSearch 4.0 you can change the 'skin&apos...
[August 17, 2001, 10:00]
Google downed by latest MyDoom
News Major Internet search engines were crippled on Monday by a variant of the MyDoom worm, which rendered Google inaccessible to many users and slowed results from Yahoo. The latest version is now running queries on search engines.
[July 27, 2004, 8:30]
Web site offers search engine gen
News A new site dedicated to monitoring Internet search engines has appeared. Or how many free Web pages provided by Internet access providers may be intentionally passed over by search engines. The site is a superset of the existing A Webmaster's Guide...
[June 17, 1997, 10:45]
Lycos patents spider technology
News Lycos will receive an exclusive patent on widely used spidering technology, which allows search engines to automatically find and categorize information on the Internet, the company stated. Spiders are automated search robots that scour the...
[September 3, 1997, 14:46]
Judge waves MP3Board suit into court
News Although Napster has attracted huge attention with its legal fight against the recording industry, this case has also felt the heat of the spotlight because it could set a precedent for the role of Internet search engines that hyperlink to certain...
[March 20, 2001, 9:55]
Gates: Internet needs improvements
News Addressing a conference of more than 7,000 IT professionals, government officials and students in Singapore last week, Bill Gates said there is still room for improvements in search engines and the Internet.
[July 4, 2005, 9:00]
Search engines accused over click fraud
News Lane's Gifts and Collectibles, an US-based gift shop that advertises on the Internet, claims that search engines colluded to overcharge advertisers, according to the Associated Press. The search engines have "grown the Internet PPC [pay per click...
[April 6, 2005, 13:35]
Billionaire backs new search tool
News IceRocket is part of a new generation of search engines, some of which hope to "out-Google Google," and some of which simply want to capture a narrowly defined portion of the Internet search market. The company is mixing its own Web search...
[August 5, 2004, 9:00]
Internet Job Spider
Downloads Use our top search spider engines to search pivotal job engines for current job opportunities. Our Internet Search Tool will automatically allow you to design your own search strings. The Internet Reports That Over 5.5 Million Job Opportunities are...
[December 2, 2004, 15:05]
$1.85bn Ask Jeeves sale agreed
News Ask Jeeves differs from other search engines in that it responds to plain English questions such as "What is March Madness? Using sponsored advertising, search engines auction off popular search terms to the highest bidders, whose ads are then...
[March 21, 2005, 17:15]
Web of Porn: The Business of Porn - Part 1
News Thanks to e-mail, anonymity and search engines, "adult" Web sites are booming. But what we do know is that commercial sex Web sites are very popular and are very good at drawing people via search engines.
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
Google hacking expected to boom in 2005
News Last year two high profile worms used Google and other search engines to find potential targets. In August, a MyDoom variant used Google to find email addresses and a few months later the Santy worm found vulnerable bulletin board applications...
[January 14, 2005, 8:25]
MyDoom spreading again
News Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own SMTP engine and harvesting potential e-mail targets from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, was spreading quickly on Thursday.
[February 17, 2005, 8:05]
Yahoo seeks search-ad revenue with 'Boss' project
News It might well be that no single company becomes as dominant as the top three search engines — those of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft — but that, collectively, the smaller players offer more alternatives, Raghavan said.
[July 10, 2008, 8:36]
Startup Spotlight: Human search engine launches
News The Internet has become a victim of its own success, with lots of search engines struggling under the weight of its content," says Richard Barker, managing director of Questico. Barker's attitude highlights the limitations of search engines such as...
[October 24, 2000, 8:10]
Protect your privacy when searching online
News The first thing you should do is clear the cookies that are set by search engines — those let the company correlate your repeat visits. Search engines place a multibillion-dollar infrastructure at the hands of any random user who stops by their Web...
[August 10, 2006, 16:50]
