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Comment If you're like me, you've never given much thought to how search engines work - you're happy to enter your search terms and click on the most relevant result. UK Ltd, in which the judge ruled that search engines had no responsibility or liability...
[30 Apr 2008]
Comment There are hundreds of lesser-known examples, plus those amalgamating and federated search engines of search engines. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a maiden's prayer.
[31 Mar 2008]
Comment Search engines are great but they just don't push the same buttons, as it were. I noticed a story this morning about the favourite brands in the UK. It wasn't dominated by big tech and internet names - think Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook.
[13 Sep 2007]
Round-Up Although a judge had previously ruled that search engines could be liable for displaying thumbnails, this was later overruled in an appeals court, which determined that the thumbnails are 'fair use' and that the full-size images weren't stored by...
[17 Aug 2007]
Comment It used to be that handset vendors supplied handsets, network operators operated networks, search engines allowed you to search, fixed-line telcos sold broadband - and so on. Years ago, when I used to call someone for the first time from silicon...
[18 Apr 2007]
Comment RSS feeds, email, search engines and corporate intranets are competing with internal reporting systems that may not always have access to all of the data streams that employees need. Mapping desktops to network drives and using enterprise search...
[30 Mar 2007]
Leader Search engines - and software in general - are a commercially dominated field, with Quaero being the first major offering by public bodies. The plan to build a Franco-German search engine has encountered turbulence, with the news that Germany has...
[08 Jan 2007]
Comment Search engines are impressive and often useless at the same time. What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some context relative to our current end-objectives at the time.
[27 Nov 2006]
Comment The real innovators are hidden away working on artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive search engines and humanised interfaces. My guess is that there will be a couple of really big pushes in the area of cognitive search, humanised...
[20 Nov 2006]
AS Profile As one Agenda Setters panellist said: "It's the next step in search engines. Bringing intelligence to corporate search As corporations' data continues to proliferate exponentially, the ability to search those bits and bytes and quickly find what...
[25 Sep 2006]
Comment Thus internet search engines such as Google have teamed up with mobile operators to allow subscribers to bring desktop searching to mobiles - using a Google page to search for sites specifically designed for mobile devices, for instance.
[13 Apr 2006]
Leader The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) plan to hunt for scammers with an internet sweep - entering 'certain' words into 'certain' search engines and hoping for the best.
[02 Feb 2006]
Comment In relation to search engines, two problems are prominent. The issue is that website builders want to know how the search engines evaluate sites. But patenting their techniques is hardly going to give the search engines a start over the site builders.
[23 Aug 2005]
Leader As several newspapers noted today, other search engines now feel they should follow the example set by NetEase. One of China's leading portals, NetEase, announced today it has shut its MP3 search facility, fearing it could be blamed for the illegal...
[17 Aug 2005]
Comment The wiki can use HTML to instruct the search engines not to take account of a document for at least 24 hours, by which time the damage has usually been undone. The aim is to improve their search engine rankings.
[02 Aug 2005]
Comment The phenomenal success of search engines in recent years indicates just how comfortable and au fait users have become with search-driven methods on the internet. At a time when search engines are king, this is a cognisant move by Apple, aligning...
[06 May 2005]
Comment He is constantly tweaking the design of the site, using data from traffic reports to improve navigation or redesigning the HTML pages to generate more traffic from search engines. What are the risks and rewards you can expect from this practice?
[08 Feb 2005]
Round-Up It is a truth universally acknowledged that search engines are the new rock 'n' roll. However, while the Beatles and the Stones worked to accommodate each other - often staggering releases of new record releases to avoid competing with each other...
[13 Aug 2004]
Leader The practice is nothing new but Google's advanced search and website caching features make it particularly good at the task - not all search engines reveal so many vulnerabilities. According to Computer Security Corp's Johnny Long, hackers can use...
[30 Jul 2004]
Comment Internet search engines, especially Google, are playing an increasingly large role in court cases. But his case nevertheless offers a striking illustration of the growing clout of internet search engines among the judiciary - a controversial trend...
[13 May 2004]
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