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  • Photos: Search engines from the '90s

    Were you on the Net in the '90s? This photo gallery takes a look back at the first home pages for some of today's largest search engines, along with those that have passed on.

  • 'Cuil' search takes on Google

    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.

  • Ex-Googlers join queue in crowded search market

    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.

  • For Ten, good partners become good friends

    IT managers often speak anecdotally about the challenges of scaling up their systems to meet demand, but Damian Smith faced this challenge head on after the exploding popularity of Big Brother sent demand for Network Ten online videos soaring

  • Updated MyDoom targets Google -- again

    Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own SMTP engine and harvesting potential e-mail targets from search engines such as Google and Yahoo, was spreading quickly on Thursday.

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  • Can there be another Google?

    While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.

  • Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures

    As the two giants tussle for domination of online advertising dollars, it's increasingly clear that this tug-of-war is really a test of each company's corporate culture.

  • Latest MyDoom attacks Yahoo people search

    A new variant of the MyDoom worm, described variously as MyDoom.Q or MyDoom.O, was discovered on Tuesday that uses Yahoo's People Search to find new email addresses.

  • Google: Gunning for desktop space

    In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.

  • Google's desktop bet

    Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.

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  • MSN gets on search bandwagon

    Web portal MSN is testing a new search service that touts faster, tidier results, in what is the latest development in a fast-moving contest to help people find what they're looking for online.

  • The post-Santa guide to life with your gadgets

    Festive gizmo not living up to expectations? Don't panic - follow our tinsel-flavoured troubleshooting checklist.

  • The Google gods

    Does the power of the world's most popular search engine pose a threat to the Web's independence?

  • Fast AlltheWeb: Google killer?

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

  • PowWow 4.0

    Tribal Voice's new PowWow 4.0 (Free Download) aspires to ensure you'll always have someone to chat with by interoperating with users of both AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger.

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