In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the Internet company's technology.
Microsoft has acquired a small search technology company Powerset to buttress its search efforts, but it won't shake Google's grasp of the search market in the short term.
Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces.
Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a new way to present search results that take advantage of its background as an Internet portal.
It appears that despite the massive amount of hype surrounding Google, the company is not immune from the bad marketing video plague that has troubled the best of corporate giants.
Melbourne-based technology start-up ExitReality confirmed yesterday that it had lost its chief executive just before it formally launched last week.
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.
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
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?
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
By now, the regulatory, cultural, practical and financial problems in Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition have been well aired. Let's skip forward to 2009, when they've all been solved and Yahoo is now a Microsoft brand.
When it comes to Web search, Microsoft is the undisputed underdog, a position it doesn't usually find itself in. Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of search and advertising at Microsoft, explains how the company plans to improve its market share and improve search for the long haul.
New e-Discovery rules being developed for the Federal Court of Australia will require CIOs to take a more active role in their organisations' legal affairs.
Search engine companies agree that their success is contingent on becoming more important in people's daily lives.
Microsoft hustles to catch up with search engine giants Google and Yahoo, but the beta version of MSN Search still leaves plenty of room for improvement.
While Virtual Folders offers one technique to help us keep track of our data, there's still a need for a Search tool in Microsoft's new operating system. We look at Windows Vista's new Search features and how they work.
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?
Need to find a specific e-mail message or file on your hard drive? You're not alone. Fortunately, six new localised-search apps let you search your hard drive. Read on to find out more.
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