Search engines rev up in the race against Google
When it comes to Internet searching and the advertising dollars that come with it everyone seems to be playing catchup with Google the No 1 search engine which is preparing for an initial public offering
On Tuesday Yahoo the owner of the secondmostused Internet search engine said it was starting to test a service that helps consumers search for information about local businesses
Ask Jeeves another search engine also said on Tuesday that it had formed a partnership with 47InterActiveCorps Citysearch group of Web sites to get access to information with a local business focus...
Gates: Microsoft Search To Be 'Extremely Personal'
Chairman Bill Gates wants to get extremely personal with search technology Microsoft
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people said on Monday it was pushing to customize search services for users The software leviathan seeks to render results geared to individual needs and tastes Earths richest manranked No 1 on the Forbes Worlds Richest People listaddressed a crowd of information technology researchers According to Reuters Gates was responding to a query about privacy issuesthe lessglittering flip side of the golden search coin...
Microsoft aims to search and destroy
Once again activity is stirring on the sprawling campus of Microsoft Corp Once again the software company is playing catchup in a technology field where its famously driven management team was slow to spot an opportunity and threat
And once again technologists are betting the ultimate winner in the coming donnybrook over computer search wont be todays market leader Google or its Bay Area rival Yahoo Inc which now powers Microsofts consumer search site It will be the Puget Sound software goliath which is known as a ferocious competitor...
Daum acquires Lycos for $95 mil.
Ending weeks of speculation Daum Communications Corp said yesterday it has acquired Lycos Inc offering billion won 95 million to buy the remaining assets from Spains Terra Networks
Analysts predicted the move by Koreas largest Internet portal would have a limited impact on its intentions to expand overseas pointing out the companys lack of products to penetrate the market and Lycos demise in popularity among search engines
The deal marked the second ownership change for Lycos Terra acquired the search site in for 125 billion amid the height of the Internet boom...
Microsoft offers sneak peek at new search engine
Microsoft which is challenging market leader Google in the online search market has demonstrated for the first time a search engine that looks for information on computer hard drives as well as information on the Web
The worlds largest software maker had hinted before that it was interested in offering search technology for information beyond the Web but Microsoft vice president Yusuf Mehdi gave the clearest signal yet that Microsoft would enter the local hard drive search space considered the next battleground among search technology providers...