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.
The software giant has announced an offer to acquire Norwegian enterprise search provider FAST, ending months of speculation of a planned move into the premium search market.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn't necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft's eyes.
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Having taken control of the google.com.au domain name earlier this year, the company has conducted a quiet launch of its renowned Googleplex search capabilities into the Australian market.
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The search company has blocked users for the use of automated queries, but many of them are not individually responsible for breaking the rules.
Yahoo announced on Monday its plan to buy search company Overture Services in a US$1.63 billion deal, bolstering its position against rivals Google and Microsoft in the booming market for Web search advertising.
Adobe Systems has announced it's partnering with search giants Google and Yahoo to increase the quality of search results of dynamic Web content and rich internet applications (RIAs).
A bunch of ex-Google staff have launched a new search engine, claiming to have indexed more of the internet than the US-based search giant.
A war of words has broken out between an Australian "eco-friendly" search engine and Google.
Micro-blogging and social networking site Twitter has acquired Summize, a search engine commonly used to track Twitter conversations.
Competition for dominance of search engine rankings is turning sour as rival companies sabotage each other's Web sites to trick search engines into mistakenly believing them to be spam sites.
A prolonged legal fight with the movie industry has forced TorrentSpy, BitTorrent's popular search engine, to shut down.
Opera has given Yahoo the boot and made Google the default search engine for its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini Web browsers designed for mobile devices.
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