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Jane Wakefield: In search of Internet truth
News Now research has moved on from head-counting and listing the most popular Internet sites to the more fundamental question of what impact all this knowledge and technology is having on our lives. The initial survey for the Industrial Society's...
[March 20, 2001, 7:36]
Google set to woo non-Internet users with voice search
News Google is not the obvious company to telephone when you are looking for directions to a restaurant or hotel, but the popular search engine's development team is hoping that its emerging voice search facility may over time completely change the...
[March 24, 2004, 13:10]
How Do You Pick the Right Internet Technology for Enterprise Presentations?
Blog As a Flash developer, I clearly know the defects such as loss of visibility to search engines, or Internet connection failure. I cannot tell who will win finally; however, Flash technology seems more friendly for most Internet users.
[March 3, 2008, 13:05]
Internet search rings in the changes
News The state of search technology thankfully has improved," Srinivasan said in an interview. Ken Abbott knows the ins and outs of search engine marketing: dollars for clicks are in, directory listings are out.
[March 24, 2003, 15:27]
US Report: GeoCities looks for revenue in searches
News The company, which hosts over 22 million Web pages created by about 2.5 million users, announced Monday it will offer a new search engine based on technology from Inktomi Corp. Search is becoming more of a commodity on the Web, and Inktomi is...
[October 20, 1998, 13:45]
Revamped MSN search goes live
News In a further handicap, Microsoft effectively leases its search results from Yahoo and its subsidiary Overture Services, meaning it hasn't even gotten to the starting gate when it comes to back-end technology that increasingly stands as a powerful...
[July 1, 2004, 9:20]
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. Spidering technology lies at the heart of all major search...
[September 3, 1997, 14:46]
Apple puts desktop search under the Spotlight
News With search technology in the spotlight, Apple is making better ways to find desktop files the cornerstone of its next version of the Mac OS X operating system. Discussion of search, which has focused on the Internet -- Google's public offering...
[November 11, 2004, 8:42]
Patents crucial in search battle
News With the Web portal's proposed $1.63bn buyout of commercial search specialist Overture Services on Monday, Yahoo would acquire 60-plus patents related to technology and processes for indexing the Web, as well as for pay-per-click and bidding...
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
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]
How does Google do it?
News Over the last two years, Google has lured some of the best and brightest minds in technology and science to join the search giant's lava lamp and snack-filled offices. They include an award-winning physician, a pioneer of the Internet, the head of...
[February 28, 2006, 12:10]
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]
Google lets businesses control site search
News But in order for a company to be happy relying on Google search technology, they're going to want to make sure it can meet their own business priorities. But expectations are different for a Google service that lets website operators pay to use the...
[June 3, 2008, 10:05]
Britney Spears wins 2000 search terms battle
News In addition to Napster and MP3 -- a standard technology and format for compressing music files from Web sites -- one of the most popular search terms on AltaVista was "Warez". After leading the weekly and monthly charts of various Internet search...
[January 4, 2001, 8:54]
Google wannabes search for success
News Signaling the widespread acceptance of the model, Microsoft's MSN and AOL Time Warner's Netscape are licensing search technology from paid-listing services. Although the technology looks promising, Teoma and Wisenut may have some difficulty wooing...
[August 28, 2001, 15:25]
Universities leading search research
News UC Berkeley, birthplace of early search highflier Inktomi and the school where Google chief executive Eric Schmidt got his computer science doctorate, is bringing together roughly 20 faculty members from various departments to cross-pollinate work...
[August 16, 2005, 11:40]
EBay: OS for the highest bidder
News AltaVista, for instance, allows independent sites to use the AltaVista search-engine technology. The technology allows users to search AltaVista's vast index of Web sites without going to AltaVista.com.
[November 20, 2000, 12:55]
Overture acquisitions target Google
News Fast makes real-time search and filter technology. Overture plans to acquire some services of Fast Search & Transfer, another sign that it intends to compete more intensely for the Internet search market.
[February 26, 2003, 11:24]
Google ushers Web surfers into its labs
News Both of the services enable Google's users to experience and provide feedback to Google's latest innovations in search technology," a Google representative said about Tuesday's launches. In the last couple of years, Google's technology scored it a...
[May 22, 2002, 9:15]
Overture wins Freeserve UK Web-search contract
News To battle Google in its own backyard, Overture bought Web navigation technology from AltaVista and Fast Search & Transfer for about $210m (£128.40m) in cash and stock earlier this year. Overture Services won the Web search business of UK Internet...
[July 9, 2003, 7:48]
