items tagged with Search engines
Microsoft Live Search a dying dog while Google soars
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-10-05 20:43:52
Microsoft appears to be having some measure of success bribing web surfers to use its online search service Live Search but they're the wrong users. Unfortunately, Microsoft is singing to its own choir.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-10-05 20:43:52
Microsoft appears to be having some measure of success bribing web surfers to use its online search service Live Search but they're the wrong users. Unfortunately, Microsoft is singing to its own choir.
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Australia: a nation of searchers
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-21 21:46:50
comScore's Internet stats for the Asia Pacific show Australians as second only to Koreans in the number of searches they undertake. And they also show Baidu.com rapidly closing on Google as the region's preferred search engine, thanks to its popularity in China.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-09-21 21:46:50
comScore's Internet stats for the Asia Pacific show Australians as second only to Koreans in the number of searches they undertake. And they also show Baidu.com rapidly closing on Google as the region's preferred search engine, thanks to its popularity in China.
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Yahoo! Search delivers free Rhapsody music playback
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-18 21:04:51
The Search Wars continue: Yahoo!'s latest thrust is to deliver full music tracks among the search results for artists. Will this help the Yahooligans strike back against the Google empire?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-18 21:04:51
The Search Wars continue: Yahoo!'s latest thrust is to deliver full music tracks among the search results for artists. Will this help the Yahooligans strike back against the Google empire?
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Google Desktop for Windows gets faster, and safer
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-16 16:23:23
Google has released a new version of Google Desktop for Windows - - an application that provides full text searching of files stored on the users computer - saying that changes have been primarily focussed on improving performance, and new safeguards added against 'malicious gadgets'.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-16 16:23:23
Google has released a new version of Google Desktop for Windows - - an application that provides full text searching of files stored on the users computer - saying that changes have been primarily focussed on improving performance, and new safeguards added against 'malicious gadgets'.
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Google bringing old newspapers into search scope
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-09 03:07:32
Google has begun working with newspaper publishers to digitise back issues, making the material accessible via its search engines.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-09-09 03:07:32
Google has begun working with newspaper publishers to digitise back issues, making the material accessible via its search engines.
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Anatomy of a modest web site - lessons for all
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-09-03 05:14:45
If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-09-03 05:14:45
If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.
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How to Google without Google
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-28 04:59:41
Ever thought it would be nice to be able to search Google without getting bogged down by all those results from Google owned sites such as Blogger, YouTube and increasingly Knol? The good news is that you can now Google without Google...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-28 04:59:41
Ever thought it would be nice to be able to search Google without getting bogged down by all those results from Google owned sites such as Blogger, YouTube and increasingly Knol? The good news is that you can now Google without Google...
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Yahoo! tells Digg and Reddit to Buzz off
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-20 07:53:59
It has taken Yahoo! six months to recruit, it claims, 5 million users for the Buzz social news service which has now finally opened its doors to all comers for the first time. Should Digg and Reddit be worried?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-20 07:53:59
It has taken Yahoo! six months to recruit, it claims, 5 million users for the Buzz social news service which has now finally opened its doors to all comers for the first time. Should Digg and Reddit be worried?
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Sex choice adverts banned from search engines in India
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-16 20:48:13
Internet censorship has many and varied faces. The latest revealed itself in India as the Supreme Court ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop serving up adverts for sites that promote sex selection services.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-08-16 20:48:13
Internet censorship has many and varied faces. The latest revealed itself in India as the Supreme Court ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop serving up adverts for sites that promote sex selection services.
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Advantate picks leadership team
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Appointments
2008-08-01 02:54:30
Recently-formed search engine marketing specialist Advantate has announced its leadership team.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Appointments
2008-08-01 02:54:30
Recently-formed search engine marketing specialist Advantate has announced its leadership team.
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Google’s “Cuil” new competitor: not so cool for Google?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-28 00:28:08
Cuil, pronounced “cool”, is a brand new search engine claiming an index of more than 120 billion pages, and founded by former Google employees that were search engine stars to begin with. How cool is Cuil, and will it survive a duel with the big G?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-28 00:28:08
Cuil, pronounced “cool”, is a brand new search engine claiming an index of more than 120 billion pages, and founded by former Google employees that were search engine stars to begin with. How cool is Cuil, and will it survive a duel with the big G?
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Google index grows to one trillion pages
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-26 19:06:48
File under really big stuff. Google search engineers are reporting that the Google search index has grown from 26 million pages when it first launched back in 1998, to a whopping one trillion unique URLs today...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-26 19:06:48
File under really big stuff. Google search engineers are reporting that the Google search index has grown from 26 million pages when it first launched back in 1998, to a whopping one trillion unique URLs today...
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Sensis lets search engines index Yellow Pages content!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-23 00:06:52
Sensis has finally seen the 21st century light, letting search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and others access “the biggest local business database” in Australia – for the first time.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-23 00:06:52
Sensis has finally seen the 21st century light, letting search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and others access “the biggest local business database” in Australia – for the first time.
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Google still ginormously gargantuan for search in Australia
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-16 22:03:52
Woe is Yahoo and MSN search in Australia: Google has claimed an 87.81% share of Australian searches according to web measurement company Hitwise, and dominates the 44 other search engines Hitwise measures, achieving top figures in the US and UK, too. What hope is there for Google’s competitors?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-16 22:03:52
Woe is Yahoo and MSN search in Australia: Google has claimed an 87.81% share of Australian searches according to web measurement company Hitwise, and dominates the 44 other search engines Hitwise measures, achieving top figures in the US and UK, too. What hope is there for Google’s competitors?
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Telstra takes aim at Google with enhanced BigPond mobile search
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-14 00:41:02
Google has made massive strides in working to dominate search from mobile phones as much as it does search from desktop computers, but they’re not the only ones. In Australia, Telstra’s assets BigPond, Sensis, Yellow Pages and other sites it owns are being promoted to users as a “convenient” way to find what you’re looking for from your mobile phone – but will Google still win anyway?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-14 00:41:02
Google has made massive strides in working to dominate search from mobile phones as much as it does search from desktop computers, but they’re not the only ones. In Australia, Telstra’s assets BigPond, Sensis, Yellow Pages and other sites it owns are being promoted to users as a “convenient” way to find what you’re looking for from your mobile phone – but will Google still win anyway?
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The! Microsoft! And! Yahoo! Deal! Could! Be! Back! On! Yowzers!
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-07 11:39:00
Looks like Microsoft is willing to talk turkey about buying part of all of Yahoo once more, but there’s a catch – Yahoo must elect a new board, with Carl Icahn threatening to dump Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang should it happen!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-07-07 11:39:00
Looks like Microsoft is willing to talk turkey about buying part of all of Yahoo once more, but there’s a catch – Yahoo must elect a new board, with Carl Icahn threatening to dump Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang should it happen!
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On the rebound from Yahoo, Microsoft buys into semantic search instead
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-03 17:33:51
Many have been asking where does Microsoft's search strategy go if not in the direction of a Yahoo! deal? The answer could well be straight towards the semantic web following the acquisition of Powerset, a 'natural language search provider' for an as yet undisclosed amount. Whether it will be enough to make the slightest bit of difference when it comes to playing catch-up with Google and, yes, Yahoo! remains to be seen...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-03 17:33:51
Many have been asking where does Microsoft's search strategy go if not in the direction of a Yahoo! deal? The answer could well be straight towards the semantic web following the acquisition of Powerset, a 'natural language search provider' for an as yet undisclosed amount. Whether it will be enough to make the slightest bit of difference when it comes to playing catch-up with Google and, yes, Yahoo! remains to be seen...
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Adobe gives Google, Yahoo better Flash search technology
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-01 17:19:16
Adobe is providing Google and Yahoo! with technology that allows search engines to index Flash content more effectively. The trick is that rather than simply detecting static text and links within SWF files as they do now, search engines gain a way of 'seeing' the various states of a piece of Flash content.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-07-01 17:19:16
Adobe is providing Google and Yahoo! with technology that allows search engines to index Flash content more effectively. The trick is that rather than simply detecting static text and links within SWF files as they do now, search engines gain a way of 'seeing' the various states of a piece of Flash content.
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How the new Digg Recommendation Engine works
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-06-30 20:07:51
Filtering the 16,000 new entries on Digg every day is an impossible task, for a human. However, the Digg Recommendation Engine can do it for you by analysing your past activity and revealing what Diggers Like You have been looking at...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-06-30 20:07:51
Filtering the 16,000 new entries on Digg every day is an impossible task, for a human. However, the Digg Recommendation Engine can do it for you by analysing your past activity and revealing what Diggers Like You have been looking at...
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Russians more likely to say Yo Yandex than Go Google
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-06-28 08:28:33
Everybody, it might seem, uses Google to search the Internet. But not the Russians. They are far more likely to use Yandex, the most popular search engine you have never heard of. Yet!
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-06-28 08:28:33
Everybody, it might seem, uses Google to search the Internet. But not the Russians. They are far more likely to use Yandex, the most popular search engine you have never heard of. Yet!
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