InternetWeek | AOL's Last Chance
America Online is getting ready to launch what may be its last chance to regain the prominence it once had on the web The Internet service provider best known for its declining dialup business is testing a free web portal that would compete with Google Microsoft and Yahoo
No one sane would ever argue that s merger with media giant Time Warner was a boom for shareholders The latter companys stock has yet to recover from the beating it took in one of the worst deals of the dotcom era...
GuruNet Launches Shopping On Answers.com
GuruNet Corp on Friday launched on Answerscom shopping service powered by productcomparison site Shoppingcom the first move by GuruNet to diversify the offerings on its search engine
Answerscom takes a different approach than traditional search engines providing encyclopedic answers to queries instead of a list of web pages
As a niche player in a market dominated by such heavyweights as Google Inc Microsoft Corps and Yahoo Inc GuruNet based in Wesley is looking for new services that it can build around its unique search engine
In March Answers...
AOL's Portal Entrance Afoot
from being an oftperceived dusty dialup subscription service to a onestopshop Web portal there may be one area where they jump right in and compete video search
As the media conglomerate moves to an adsupported model hoping to snatch revenue from the growing online advertising market it is pushing the upcoming launch of its portal
Click for a larger view of s portal
The portal will offer free access to most of the features that subscribers currently receive including news Internet radio videos of music concerts and articles from magazines published by s publications at Time...
MSN Censorship & Revisiting The Need For Better Disclosure
Chinese target Webs prohibited language from the Associated Press looks at how those in China wishing to blog
on s new Spaces service will find certain words such as democracy freedom and human rights are deemed taboo with the
cooperation of Microsoft It raises anew the issue censorship by search and portal companies and that if theyre forced to do it couldnt they better disclose this
With Spaces try to use those words in the subject line of your posts in China and a Prohibited language in text please delete message apparently appears Put them
in the body copy and apparently you are home free...
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Weve written many times about how search engines are moving to presenting direct answers in response to some questions Trivia Stump Smart Search Engines from the Associated Press has writer Michael Liedtke deciding to
test how well these direct answers seem to work by involving the search engines in a game of Trivial Pursuit
Invited to play were Google Yahoo Ask Jeeves and Answerscom Ask and Answers were a small step ahead of the others but even they rarely met the goal of providing
a single clear answer he writes...