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    LookSmart is hoping to spin a small acquisition into a big project that will use distributed computing to improve its Web search results.

  • Commentary: Desperately seeking better (search) results

    If full-blown search engines often confront and confound you with productivity-stifling clickfests, consider augmenting these resarch tools with a more constrained approach. Here a look at Atomica's Gurunet and Microsoft's Office System 2003 Smart Tags.

  • Is AltaVista searching for top dollar?

    AltaVista is calling it an isolated mistake by a lone salesman. But some say a recent pitch to buy top placement in search results speaks volumes about the fast-and-loose commercialization of navigation tools.

  • Search engines own up to paid-for results

    The practice of taking money to bump up certain Web sites is giving search engines a bad name. Will they now have to come clean?

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  • Google search gets newsier

    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.

  • Fast AlltheWeb: Google killer?

    Could a Norwegian owned Web search utility unseat Google's stranglehold on the Web searching market?

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