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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]
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]
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]
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]
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, 6:00]
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]
DictJuggler
Downloads DictJuggler provides you quick and convenient access to the search sites and dictionary sites on the Web and in your computer. It looks up language dictionaries, encyclopedia, search engines, and even maps or auction sites on the Web and in your...
[April 22, 2009, 14:36]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Internet Job Spider
Downloads Search an unlimited number of sites, newspapers, TV networks. Hunt both Domestic and International Sites. Find books and articles on Interviewing Techniques, Resume Building and Job Networking resume sites, sharpen your resume skills, and write a...
[December 2, 2004, 15:05]
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]
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]
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]
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]
WowlaBar
Downloads Using WowlaBar, you can search Wowla for sites, images, news, videos. Pop-up blocker, Zoom-in and Zoom-out of sites currently browsed in your browser, Right-click any word on a Web page and search Wowla for that word.
[January 27, 2006, 8:40]
Inktomi gives Web sites control -- for a price
News Search technology provider, Inktomi, accustomed to taking money from portals that licence its technology, is now collecting revenue from content sites. The introduction on Wednesday of Inktomi's Index Connect lets large Web sites pay to make sure...
[March 8, 2001, 10:40]
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. With the Web portal's proposed $1.63bn buyout of commercial search specialist Overture Services on...
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
