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Search sites sport shortcut to flight status
News Search providers are increasingly trying to deliver a wealth of information onto results pages quickly, rather than having people sift through numerous Web sites to find answers. Yahoo and Google are offering new search tricks for Web surfers, with...
[January 12, 2004, 8:40]
Porn sites hack search engines
News Terms placed inside meta tags serve as keywords, which are used by some Internet search engines when they index Web sites. But if they redirect viewers to adult sites (by way of a search engine), how would you know?
[August 19, 1999, 13:14]
Malware spoofs search sites
News Security experts have discovered a malicious program aimed at tricking users into clicking on phoney search results on fake Google, Yahoo and MSN sites. People with infected machines who try to visit those popular search sites are redirected to...
[October 3, 2005, 9:40]
News sites embrace paid-search ads
News Three old-media giants are taking up - or furthering their involvement with - the popular practise of placing relevant, search-based ads on their new media properties. and Google settled a two-year court battle involving the companies' competing...
[August 26, 2004, 10:55]
Mightee Search Widget
Downloads The Mightee Search Widget delivers a simple tool capable of searching a number of Web sites all from one simple interface. Search sites include eBay, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Wikipedia.
[April 19, 2007, 14:16]
Symantec, Ask team up on web-safety ratings
News Search engine Ask is partnering with Symantec to offer web surfers ratings on the safety level of sites in search results, the companies were set to announce on Tuesday. Sites will be rated with a colour-coded icon in one of four colours — green...
[February 3, 2009, 10:14]
Contextual search demand remains niche
News Unlike search engines that run on keywords, sites such as Hunch, Answers.com, Mahalo and ChaCha, aim to deliver results tailored to specific human situations. Contextual search provides an opportunity for companies to run more targeted advertising...
[August 20, 2009, 17:21]
Search engines own up to paid-for results
News Language on most of the search provider sites has shifted to 'sponsored'. The Federal Trade Commission sent a letter late last month urging several Web sites to provide conspicuous labels for commercial search listings or face possible action.
[August 19, 2002, 13:12]
Pop-ups pushed down at Ask Jeeves
News Ask Jeeves, which operates search sites Ask.com and Teoma.com, stopped pushing pop-up ads to its visitors on Monday, and it cut back on banner advertisements that appear throughout the site. The search service joins several other sites on the anti...
[October 21, 2002, 8:51]
Glooton
Downloads Glooton, boost your search on the web.Glooton is a meta searcher compatible Macintosh and Windows.It is an application which makes possible any search on Internet using the sites and search engines existing on the web.
[May 2, 2001, 8:00]
Phantom
Downloads So, in addition to providing users an easy way to search their sites, Webmasters can also provide search capability for other related sites. With Phantom, Webmasters can crawl targeted Web servers (or whole sites) automatically and create an index...
[January 20, 2003, 7:00]
Jeeves gets an e-commerce girlfriend!
News Over the past six months, sites such as etown.com have been featuring "AskIda", a product search service that Ask Jeeves has been selling as part of its business solutions. AskIda is one of a number of recent tweaks to search sites, which one...
[November 6, 2000, 9:29]
Mightee Search Mini Widget
Downloads Search sites include eBay, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, Flickr, and MySpace. It's an easy to used tool capable of searching a number of Web sites all from one simple widget.
[April 4, 2007, 7:43]
McAfee: beware sponsored search results
News All the major search engines return "risky" Web sites in their search results for popular keywords, according to a report by antivirus vendor McAfee. Users are at especially high risk when visiting search engine advertisers - even though search...
[May 15, 2006, 15:40]
High Paying Jobs
Downloads From your phone you can easily search and apply to jobs from leading job sites such as Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice, The Ladders, Personforce, and others. High Paying Jobs application lists jobs from all the leading job sites.
[August 25, 2009, 9:46]
Google excludes controversial sites
News Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. To avoid legal liability, we remove sites from Google.de search results pages that may conflict with German law...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
Sony picks Google for search service
News Google has struck a deal to power Web search services for Sony's company sites. Google will provide technology to let people search for information on Sony's more than 300 worldwide corporate Web sites in 57 countries.
[August 17, 2001, 9:53]
Yahoo increases 'deep Web' search effort
News While most search engines crawl the Web and troll freely accessible sites, they cannot get into much of the 'deep Web', vast amounts of data stored within paid and password-protected sites. Yahoo Search Subscriptions will allow search access to...
[June 16, 2005, 10:45]
Quest 99
Downloads It has seven built-in languages, including English, French, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Spanish in one single program and searching more than 200 search sites in few seconds.
[June 1, 2000, 8:00]
Excite owns up to gaping EWS security hole
News The EWS system is available from Excite as unsupported software that Web site adminstrators can install on their sites to provide local search facilities. EWS has gained widespread acceptance due to its ease of installation and the powerful search...
[January 15, 1998, 10:48]
