Google leads charge toward digital library
The Associated Press
Library employee Maureen Hoyi makes her way through the stacks at University of Michigans Buhr Library yesterday in Ann Arbor Mich Google Inc is trying to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hardtofind books into its widely used Internet search engine
Calif Stanford University senior Will Oremus puts in a full day as a student and editor in chief of the school newspaper He doesnt get around to studying until after midnight when the campus library is closed...
Desktop search tool from Google has flaw
Upgrades are offered to fix security hole
A university computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google
The glitch which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet is what computer scientists call a composition flaw a security weakness that emerges when separate components interact...
Where's Google going?
By Jefferson Graham
Calif In Googleland search is no longer just about locating Internet Web pages
The mantra for the worlds most popular search engine is bringing more information you want
One of the important issues with search is if we dont have it in our index we cant return an answer says Google cofounder Sergey Brin He and formerStanford classmate Larry Page became multibillionaires worth 4 billion each according to Forbes when their undergraduate creation went public this year The company is now worth nearly 50 billion...
NewsFactor Network - E-Commerce - Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Fray
Ask Jeeves
will launch its own desktop search tool on Wednesday amid the hoopla over similar announcements from
Google
Microsoft and
Yahoo
The Ask Jeeves desktop application is based on technology it obtained through the acquisition of privately owned Tuckaroo in June
The company expects to offer a search application that works seamlessly between the Web and the desktop in The initial offering however is a beta version that is not integrated with the Ask Jeeves
Teoma
search engine...
Rocky Mountain News: Technology
The danger is that the bold new strategy will instead accelerate the erosion of s core revenue source
To begin with the change pits against big guns Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp which in turn are looking over their shoulders wondering what search leader Google Inc will do next
is left looking like the race car in a race that nobody wants to run in anymore said Rob Enderle an industry analyst in San Jose Calif s dead as it exists It has to find a way to become relevant again...