Microsoft's Live Search Team is ending its book search efforts, according to a blog post Friday. Its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic sites will be discontinued next week, and books and academic publishings will show up in regular search results rather than separate sites.
Yahoo announced a non-exclusive partnership under which rival Google will supply it with some search ads, a move that could increase Yahoo search revenue but that also gives Google even more power in the market.
Google has added a new element to its search interface that will let others' websites use geographically linked information.
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".
Sensis has settled with the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) regarding a number of alleged breaches of the Trade Practices Act, committed online by its classified advertising publication The Trading Post.
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.
Search engine companies agree that their success is contingent on becoming more important in people's daily lives.
Ten years ago, Microsoft executives worried that an Internet platform could threaten Windows. The nightmare now has a name: Google.
The software giant updates its corporate Web search technology with in-house software, its latest effort to catch up with innovations in the navigation tools market.
You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.
Aimed at small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that need a search engine without the hassles, the Google Mini is capable and flexible. We just wish the upgrade path was more affordable.
Microsoft will build multiple search solutions into the next version of Windows. Is it enough?
With Google Desktop, you can search for files on your hard drive just as easily as you can search the Internet.
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Google has rethought the Internet browser some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.
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