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Search Microsoft's online Knowledge Base like a pro
News Unlike Internet search engines, such as AltaVista, Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft's own TechNet InfoViewer, the online MSKB completely ignores quote marks contained within the search string. Although the local and online MSKBs contain basically the...
[October 24, 2002, 11:38]
Patent Office launches online search service
News Hugh Jones, senior examiner for the Search and Advisory Service at the Patent Office believes the system will grow over the next year. As 80% of technical information can only be found in patent specifications, this online service could speed up...
[October 27, 1998, 17:21]
Google delivers search tool for online stores
News Google has launched Commerce Search, a hosted search engine service for online retailers. Online stores can also link Google Commerce Search to Google Analytics to track the amount of sales and monitor user behaviour and site effectiveness.
[November 6, 2009, 14:48]
Search-based ads increase online revenue
News Search-based adverts accounted for 40 percent of revenues in the second quarter of 2004, a 97 percent increase in absolute dollars compared to Q2 2003. Search-based advertising is gaining ground as it is more targeted, only appearing when a...
[September 20, 2004, 18:10]
Google sinks $1bn into AOL
News Google will invest $1bn (£568m) for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video.
[December 21, 2005, 7:55]
Google's business Apps sparks debate
News With the launch of Google Apps for Your Domain, the online search giant hopes to cash in on the market for-on demand applications. There's no word processor, spreadsheet or presentation program, although Google does have both a word processor...
[August 30, 2006, 12:15]
Environmental searches bloom online
News The online search facility is the EA's contribution to the National Land Information Service government portal that allows solicitors to conduct a range of property searches as part of Whitehall's e-government agenda.
[September 2, 2003, 16:05]
Windows Live Search has arrived
News Microsoft said its new online search portal will feature an improved user interface that fetches more accurate Web search results. Windows Live Search is expected to go live Monday night after less than a year in beta mode.
[September 12, 2006, 9:30]
Search-ad revenues defy economic downturn
News Despite an economic downturn, online advertising — and search in particular — is managing to keep its market intact, according to reports on Tuesday by an industry trade group and Wall Street analyst.
[October 8, 2008, 9:27]
US Report: McAfee Online - next-generation portal?
News Excite, Infoseek and Lycos started off as popular search engines, McAfee Online started off hawking PC-management software, including a popular anti-virus line. The company has already partnered with Beyond.com to expand the software it offers...
[December 9, 1998, 10:05]
Can Google keep up the ad pace?
News Many industry executives expect sales growth of online brand advertising to outpace advertising related to Web search in the coming years, begging the question: How will search giant Google keep pace?
[June 14, 2006, 10:05]
T-Online dumps Overture for Google
News T-Online, one of Europe's largest Web access providers, on Thursday signed a multiyear deal with Google for search services -- severing its contract with rival Overture Services early. T-Online, which operates in Germany, Spain, Austria, France and...
[August 13, 2003, 10:05]
Click fraud alliance formed at last
News Click fraud occurs when online ads are intentionally clicked on, either by Web sites who get paid for hosting the ads or by companies trying to deplete the ad budgets of rivals so they can buy the search keywords themselves and steal the business.
[August 3, 2006, 9:25]
Search engines get 'Gatored'
News The Gator online advertising network is testing a new paid search product that lets rivals poach on each other's territory in one of the Net's hottest new marketing venues. Last year, for example, Google won contracts to provide commercial search...
[January 15, 2003, 7:42]
Amazon Web services marketplace patent published
News Amazon.com has received a public airing of its patent application for an online marketplace where consumers search and pay for Web services. In the marketplace, consumers can search for Web services and read comments and reviews from others who...
[July 29, 2005, 13:05]
NexTag Mobile
Downloads NexTag Mobile lets you to search and browse through millions of products in our catalog, find the lowest price for your product from thousands of online merchants, save products to your wish list to purchase later, and shop for products visually...
[September 24, 2009, 7:32]
Web giants mull taskbar
News Internet search is breaking out of the browser, as ordinary desktop applications like Microsoft's Word take on Web-like functions, with the advance of data standards -- such as the Extensible Markup Language -- that promise to blur the line...
[January 12, 2004, 14:40]
Yahoo results astound analysts
News Bolstered by improved online advertising revenue and continued momentum in paid search, Yahoo on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings that blew away Wall Street expectations. Executives maintained that online advertising, both branded and...
[April 8, 2004, 8:55]
Amazon opens up texts
News Amazon.com on Thursday unveiled a new service that lets bookworms search through selected pages of thousands of books available on its online store. The service, dubbed "Search inside the book," lets people type in any keyword and receive results...
[October 24, 2003, 15:00]
'Deceptive Duo' suspects hit in FBI raid
News The FBI has issued search warrants against two former online vandals it believes to be the members of a "patriot" hacking group called the Deceptive Duo. An FBI representative in San Francisco confirmed that the bureau had issued a search warrant...
[May 16, 2002, 9:11]
