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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 Internet, we are told, is about to change our...
[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 GeoCities' latest strategy for gathering revenues comes from an old Internet standby: The search engine. 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...
[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 Dominance in Web search may be determined by the scope of a company's patent portfolio, rather than its ability to shuttle people to Internet sites. According to the Google lawsuit, Overture's patent covers 67 separate claims, including exclusive...
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
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]
Britney Spears Wins 2000 Search Terms Battle
News After leading the weekly and monthly charts of various Internet search engine lists all year, teen singing sensation Britney Spears ended 2000 as the most popular search term entered into portals Yahoo!
[January 4, 2001, 8:54]
Google Wannabes Search For Success
News The rivals have surfaced at a time when the face of Internet search is changing. We think the market is actually very strong for search engines because Internet usage keeps growing," said Himawan Gunadhi, chief executive of Wisenut.
[August 28, 2001, 15:25]
Universities Leading Search Research
News The project is one of many efforts at US universities designed to address the explosive growth of Internet search and the complex issues that have arisen in the field. UC Berkeley, birthplace of early search highflier Inktomi and the school where...
[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 Overture plans to acquire some services of Fast Search & Transfer, another sign that it intends to compete more intensely for the Internet search market. The acquisition, combined with the recent purchase of search engine AltaVista, is designed to...
[February 26, 2003, 11:24]
Google Ushers Web Surfers Into Its Labs
News The second page features experimental add-ons to Google's toolbar, a software download that lets people surfing the Web with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser search the Google database through a persistent application built into the IE...
[May 22, 2002, 9:15]
Overture Wins Freeserve UK Web-search Contract
News Overture Services won the Web search business of UK Internet service provider Freeserve, supplanting Google in its flagship service and laying out new terrain for a fight. To battle Google in its own backyard, Overture bought Web navigation...
[July 9, 2003, 7:48]
Google Launches UK News Service
News Google, whose search technology is also used by companies such as Yahoo, recently topped a list showing which portals and search engines are most popular with Internet users looking for information. Google has upgraded its Internet news aggregation...
[May 12, 2003, 12:13]
With Google At Gates, Yahoo! Arms Itself
News Inktomi, once one of the Internet highest fliers, sold its corporate search business last month for $25m in cash. 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]
