(News) Speech-based search apps and services such as ChaCha, Microsoft's TellMe, and Yahoo's OneSearch cater to the needs of people on the go.
(News) A new research project underway at Microsoft will let users collaborate.
(News) Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut today.
(News) New year will see launch of open-source Wikipedia search project the company hopes will challenge Google, others.
(News) Federal Websites needs to be revamped to do a better job of providing information to citizens, experts tell Congress.
(News) Google extended its lead in U.S. Web searches in October, ComScore says.
(News) Leading search companies Google and Yahoo didn't appear to have a presence at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment conference in San Francisco this week, but their startup competitors and smaller rival AOL were all angling for influence over mobile search.
(News) Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access Google Inc. and other search engines were successful Friday, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to these sites was redirected to Chinese search engine Baidu.com Inc.
(News) These services add voice recognition and results focused on meaning, but Microsoft's fresh-looking Tafiti engine may well make the biggest splash.
(News) Powerset, a startup building a search engine that understands ideas rather than just words, has opened an online lab to tap into the brainpower of a limited number of humans.
(News) Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia
(News) A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft Corp. for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other Web sites that are illegally reproducing the material.
(News) Baidu.com Inc., which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, said its second-quarter revenue and profit more than doubled compared to the same period last year, but the company's growth rate shows signs of slowing down.
(News) Wikia Inc.'s project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with its acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday.
(News) Search engines pressure Google by offering anonymity options and scrubbing saved query data.
(News) Search portal Ask.com plans to make it easier for Web searchers to cover their tracks.
(News) European data protection officials are expanding their examination of the impact search engines have on privacy, after initially targeting Google Inc. last month, European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx said in an interview late Wednesday.
(News) Xerox Corp. researchers have developed a search tool that tries to understand documents, rather than looking for keywords, in order to provide better results.
(News) Toll Free Yellow Pages Wednesday announced the launch of SearchBoth.com.au, the nation's first Web site that enables users to search both Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. search engines at the same time.
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(News) Baidu.com Inc. Friday said its not planning to expand into Europe, following reports that China's largest search engine would announce such plans later this month.
(News) Web 2.0 has come to search engine optimization. Or rather, search engine optimizers have discovered Web 2.0.
(News) Word that Microsoft Corp. had a crack team of developers in Silicon Valley working on a cutting-edge search project is news to the company's head of search and advertising.
(News) Just a few days after the introduction of a search engine that works primarily using human labor, Google Inc. says "me too."
(News) Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open-source developers, partnering with key websites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open-source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers.
(News) IAC/InterActiveCorp's Citysearch has gotten its first major update in three years, as this online guide for local entertainment and businesses debuts videos on its site, latching on to one of the hottest trends on the Internet today.
(News) Jabber creator Jeremie Miller is joining Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia Inc., in building an open-source, community-driven search service.
(News) Chinese search engine Baidu dominates its homeland, but rivals are bearing down.
(News) Whether you're searching for text, video, images, news, or local information, you have lots of options beyond Google. We tried dozens of search engines and found some worthy challengers to the king.
(News) IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have enhanced their joint enterprise search product, a free competitor to Google Inc.'s Mini device.
(News) The rare collaboration between search rivals Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. over site maps has yielded its first result.
(News) Microsoft offers enterprises money for Live Search use
(News) Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
(News) Live Search Books rivals Google Book Search, but limits selection.
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(news) Ask Jeeves to Unveil Improvements, New Brand
(news) Search Engine Traffic Soars
(news) Microsoft Defends Decision to Give Up Search Data
(news) Ask.com Focuses on Image Search
(news) Riya Photo Search Site Readies for Launch
(news) Microsoft May Share Search Revenue
(news) AOL Offers Mobile Search Services
(news) Search Sites Try to Give Instant Answers
(news) Survey: Google and Yahoo Lead in Customer Satisfaction
(news) Yahoo, Microsoft Challenge Google on Ads
(news) Microsoft's MSN to Deliver Local Search Option
(news) Ask Jeeves Offers Better Answers
(news) Barry Diller's IAC Group to Acquire Ask Jeeves
(news) Microsoft Preps Paid Search Program
(news) Lycos Goes Looking for Love
(news) Ask Jeeves Developing Wireless Search Service
(news) Are Yahoo and MSN Catching up to Google?
(news) Singingfish Unveils Multimedia Search Tool
(news) Microsoft to Launch New Search Engine
(news) Revamped search engine allows users to store and share results.
(news) A9.com is designed to compete with existing search sites, including Google.
(news) New search tools include both people and discussion finders.
(news) Leading sites explore how to draw on user interests and common queries to serve up custom findings.
(news) Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser.
(news) Study finds each engine draws 40 percent of North American Web surfers, with Yahoo coming on strong.
(news) Search site adds 'Smart Answers' to queries about time, weather, and conversions.
(news) Consumer group's study finds that even experienced Web users can't distinguish free from paid-for listings.
