A European Commission advisory body has suggested that search companies delete data collected about their users after six months a far cry from what most companies currently do.
Most enterprises use inefficient search engines on their Web site, resulting in customers becoming frustrated while trying to search for particular goods and services, according to the CSIRO.
Susanne Koch, co-founder of search engine information site Pandia, says search engine "optimisation" has degenerated from something approaching an exact science into an occult art.
Advertisement placement policies of Web directories and search engines serving the Australian market, have fallen under the scrutiny of the competition and consumer watchdog.
A company in the business of reviving abandoned technologies is preparing a peer-to-peer search engine aimed straight at the heart of Google.
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.
Would you be happier that Google collects data about your Internet history if you knew their log data was used to fight some seriously nasty worms?
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?
Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.
Imagine for a minute -- just imagine -- that all the Google phone rumours are true and the search giant is about to bring out its own mobile device. What can Google give us that the existing handset makers can't?
Digital asset management (DAM) software, a sibling of document management, content management, and search engines, is taking on challenges from NASA to Comedy Central.
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.
Search engine companies agree that their success is contingent on becoming more important in people's daily lives.
While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.
The vast corpus of human knowledge could soon be published on the Internet. The problem now is how to wade through it.
From the capital of Tugo to a Hang Seng IPO, it's on the Web -- if you can only find it. PC Magazine reviews 20 search engines that make the hunt easier.
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.
Does the power of the world's most popular search engine pose a threat to the Web's independence?
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.
If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.
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