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  • Google trains indexing bots to fill HTML forms

    Google's ever active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.

  • Future Web talk caught up in semantics

    The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has talked up the prospects of the semantic Web, which he calls the "Web of the future".

  • Yang unlikely to yield to Ballmer

    Yahoo may indeed agree to Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bear hug, but it will be over Jerry Yang's dead body.

  • Yahoo will go slow over Microsoft bid

    For those wondering how long Yahoo may take to respond to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, Yahoo says don't hold your breath.

  • Icahn/Microsoft deal 'erratic and unpredictable': Yahoo

    Yahoo announced on Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.

  • New Snap site thinks outside the search box

    Bill Gross wants to turn Web search and advertising on its ear.

  • Google plays down Microsoft search plans

    Google has downplayed the looming threat of search competition from Microsoft, saying his company doesn't expect to see a credible product from the software giant for years.

  • Software tool smothers sponsored search

    For one software maker, the fight to block overbearing Web advertisements such as pop-ups is shifting to the ad industry's hottest sector: commercial search

  • Janet Jackson's flash dance tops Web search

    If Janet Jackson wanted attention from the Internet by exposing her breast during a Super Bowl halftime performance, she got it--and on some search engines in record-setting numbers.

  • Microsoft tests Web news service

    Microsoft has started testing an international news search service in competition with Google's, upping the ante in the hotly contested Web search market.

  • Hot links, cool trends on the Web

    Japanese anime character Dragonball is the hottest Internet trend for the second year in a row, and Natalie Portman has unseated Angelina Jolie among popular celebrities on the Web, according to data from top Internet search sites.

  • Google protects its search results

    The search company has blocked users for the use of automated queries, but many of them are not individually responsible for breaking the rules.

  • AltaVista: In search of a turning point

    After rounds of layoffs, the departure of its chief executive, the cancellation of its public offering, and investor repulsion of all things dot-com, AltaVista is looking for a way out of its difficulties. But the company has had to abandon some ambitious projects along the way.

  • Yahoo to chop at least 1,400 jobs

    Yahoo yesterday in the US reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for the third quarter, issued cautions about a weakening advertising market, and confirmed that layoffs were indeed on the way.

  • Does Yahoo need its search to survive?

    A fresh look at Yahoo's search results on Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine.

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