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.
Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a new way to present search results that take advantage of its background as an Internet portal.
Cuill, a search upstart founded by ex-Googlers, said Tuesday that it raised US$25 million in a second round funding led by Madrone Capital Partners. The company had previously raised US$8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
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.
An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative.
Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
This blog is supposed to be about the concept that is called Web 2.0, so I suppose I had better take a stab at defining it.
Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
Craig Silverstein -- Google's technology director and employee No. 1 -- discusses the future of search.
The technical wizardry behind Google's successful search engine may come down to a blindingly obvious insight: PCs crash.
As the company reaches beyond its Internet search roots, critics ask whether success may breed an identity crisis.
While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.
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).
Does the power of the world's most popular search engine pose a threat to the Web's independence?
Could a Norwegian owned Web search utility unseat Google's stranglehold on the Web searching market?
Google has unveiled an expanded test version of its search engine for current events and news, the latest step in the company's move into new markets.
Commentary: Google is one of the best things on the Web--but there are signs that it may be tempted into rank commercialism.
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