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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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Yahoo! board gets the nod from shareholders
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Financial News
2008-08-03 22:34:46
All nine of the Yahoo! directors standing for re-election at the company's annual meeting last Friday were approved by shareholders - even Robert Kotick, who had already announced that his resignation would take effect immediately after the meeting.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Financial News
2008-08-03 22:34:46
All nine of the Yahoo! directors standing for re-election at the company's annual meeting last Friday were approved by shareholders - even Robert Kotick, who had already announced that his resignation would take effect immediately after the meeting.
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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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Microsoft, Yahoo! circling AOL for acquisition
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-16 22:03:06
The fracas over the proposed Microsoft and Yahoo! merger just got a whole lot more interesting with a willing AOL coming to the table for an acquisition or merger. Both Microsoft and Yahoo! are keen to boost their position in the Internet advertising market, something which AOL could provide.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-16 22:03:06
The fracas over the proposed Microsoft and Yahoo! merger just got a whole lot more interesting with a willing AOL coming to the table for an acquisition or merger. Both Microsoft and Yahoo! are keen to boost their position in the Internet advertising market, something which AOL could provide.
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Yahoo! 'mischaracterised' proposal, says Microsoft
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-14 21:41:39
Microsoft's latest proposal to purchase Yahoo!'s search business was made in response to an approach by Yahoo! not the other way round, according to the software giant. But which version will shareholders believe?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Listed Techs
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-14 21:41:39
Microsoft's latest proposal to purchase Yahoo!'s search business was made in response to an approach by Yahoo! not the other way round, according to the software giant. But which version will shareholders believe?
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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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Yahoo! rips into 'ludicrous, absurd' Microsoft/Icahn offer
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-14 00:34:00
Yahoo! has rejected yet another Microsoft deal, this time one hatched in conjunction with super-investor Carl Icahn. The Yahoo! board has labelled the proposal "ludicrous" and "absurd", but would those terms be better applied to their own actions instead?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-14 00:34:00
Yahoo! has rejected yet another Microsoft deal, this time one hatched in conjunction with super-investor Carl Icahn. The Yahoo! board has labelled the proposal "ludicrous" and "absurd", but would those terms be better applied to their own actions instead?
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The full skinny: all the text, of all the letters, between Icahn, Microsoft and Yahoo!
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2008-07-08 18:08:17
With the failed Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! given a fresh injection of oomph by Carl Icahn we reveal just who said what to whom in the ongoing war of words that could result in the biggest and most audacious technology sector hijacking the world has ever seen.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2008-07-08 18:08:17
With the failed Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! given a fresh injection of oomph by Carl Icahn we reveal just who said what to whom in the ongoing war of words that could result in the biggest and most audacious technology sector hijacking the world has ever seen.
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Yahoo! to Microsoft and Icahn: Put up or shut up
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-07 16:03:45
Yahoo!'s board is getting tetchy about Microsoft's on-off courtship of the company, and with Carl Icahn's efforts as matchmaker. The latest message seems to be "show me the money!"
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2008-07-07 16:03:45
Yahoo!'s board is getting tetchy about Microsoft's on-off courtship of the company, and with Carl Icahn's efforts as matchmaker. The latest message seems to be "show me the money!"
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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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Mac moves closer to the cloud with Google Docs integration
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-07-04 02:26:11
One of the delights of Mac OS X is the way Spotlight provides rapid (at least on modern hardware) desktop searching. But what if some of your documents are 'in the cloud'?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-07-04 02:26:11
One of the delights of Mac OS X is the way Spotlight provides rapid (at least on modern hardware) desktop searching. But what if some of your documents are 'in the cloud'?
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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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1.3 million people search for 6.9 million Apple iPhones
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-06-26 19:35:46
Nearly 7 million searches for Apple iPhone in a single month. That's the surprising statistic to emerge from comScore, a company that specialises in measuring the digital world.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-06-26 19:35:46
Nearly 7 million searches for Apple iPhone in a single month. That's the surprising statistic to emerge from comScore, a company that specialises in measuring the digital world.
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Aussies hot to trot for iPhone info - new search data
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-06-26 03:23:46
If Internet searches are anything to go by, then the iPhone 3G is going to be a smash hit when it goes on sale in Australia on July 11. New search data shows that Australian searches for the word 'iphone' have skyrocketed over the second quarter of 2008.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-06-26 03:23:46
If Internet searches are anything to go by, then the iPhone 3G is going to be a smash hit when it goes on sale in Australia on July 11. New search data shows that Australian searches for the word 'iphone' have skyrocketed over the second quarter of 2008.
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