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

  • 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.

  • How much do you trust Google?

    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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  • Overture heads toward automation

    Overture Services, the commercial search arm of Yahoo, plans to automate a portion of its ad-bidding system in the next month, an executive said Wednesday.

  • The changing face of search engines

    Ken Abbott knows the ins and outs of search engine marketing: Dollars for clicks are in, directory listings are out.

  • Paid search feels growing pains

    Paid search, the engine that's driving many Internet companies into profitability, is getting a dose of reality.

  • Yahoo finds itself in search spotlight

    Yahoo's US$1.63 billion buyout of Overture Services signals a dramatic shake-up of the Web search market that could wake a sleeping giant: Microsoft.

  • Overture proves search sceptics wrong

    When Internet entrepreneur Bill Gross first launched paid search engine Overture Services in 1998, he was greeted with dozens of questions, most of them hinting at whether he had lost his mind.

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  • Google files for unusual US$2.7b IPO

    Internet search leader Google filed to go public on Friday, seeking to raise US$2.7 billion in an unusual auction-style offering that will give the founders rare control over the company.

  • Microsoft.com revamps search

    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.

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