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Round-Up s own natural search results. board with an ultimatum giving the internet search pioneer three weeks to enter formal merger negotiations and conclude a deal. announced this week that it's testing the use of Google ads on some of its search pages...
[11 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]
AS Profile Unlike most search technology, Autonomy's products employ a Bayesian statistics inference model, which uses pattern recognition to deliver intelligent search results. Bringing intelligence to corporate search
[25 Sep 2006]
Leader What's to prevent Google from removing every reference to eBay on its search results as a gesture of retaliation? Google could win the payments war if eBay wants to go head-to-head, so perhaps the online auctioneer should find ways of working with...
[11 Jul 2006]
Comment These sites have demonstrated skill at getting high up in Google's search results, despite the fact they frequently contain absolutely no information that is relevant to the query. We are often told that we now live in an information society.
[20 Jun 2006]
Comment Ask yourself this: How often do you find what you're looking for on a search engine on the first page without having to refine the search with further keywords or click in and out of a couple of results along the way?
[13 Apr 2006]
Leader The second is to suggest that because this is Google, which extols the virtues of its 'Do No Evil' motto, it has sold out entirely and abandoned not only its sense of ethics but also its business model - given that agreeing to omit searches is a...
[25 Jan 2006]
Round-Up Not the most prudent name to give to a research project in search of funding. This results in a more dependable system, the Round-Up was intrigued to learn. "What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary...
[11 Nov 2005]
AS Profile The absolute convergence of search and the semantic web is profound," says one panellist. With the day-to-day management of W3C in the hands of a COO, Berners-Lee these days has more time to devote to technical pursuits, the results of which our...
[23 Sep 2005]
Comment The latest row over a Microsoft search expert who took a job offer with Google highlights the twin issues of software patents and secrecy, says Martin Brampton. It is accusing the search engine wizard of hiring a programmer who knew about Microsoft...
[23 Aug 2005]
Comment However, the jewel in Tiger's crown is undoubtedly Spotlight - its integrated, system-wide search tool. Both Apple and Microsoft have pinpointed the importance of powerful search technology built into the operating system.
[06 May 2005]
Comment When I searched the site I sank grimacing into my swivel chair, horrified by the search results. Though an important trend in IT, offshoring is not going to make the UK into a nation of hairdressers and waiters, says Mark Kobayashi-Hillary - and...
[06 Dec 2004]
Comment This is the week that Google is useless as a search term to filter news results, because seemingly everyone is talking about Google. As for Google's own future, I don't think that Microsoft or Yahoo will beat it at its own game, but I do think that...
[23 Aug 2004]
Comment And so back to the government's search for a safe pair of hands, for what is likely to be an advisory rather than direct action role. So, it seems he's definitely diplomatic and doesn't upset people on committees - these are all jobs that basically...
[26 May 2004]
Comment There was outcry when Google's site was blocked in China for failing to filter search results for outlawed spiritual movement Falun Gong. We're also kidding ourselves if we think searches for 'Christian', 'Jew', 'Muslim', 'Hindu', 'gay...
[12 May 2004]
Comment Navigational knowledge management, on the other hand, is focused on trying to glean knowledge from the vast reams of information that companies have collected; this involves search and taxonomies, for example.
[26 Apr 2004]
Comment Ego-surfing - the practice of typing your own name into a search engine to find what results are returned - can throw up a number of surprises. A search under my own name will often return results where silicon.com content is being reproduced...
[15 Mar 2004]
Comment Martin Brampton goes in search of the happy medium which must exist somewhere amid all the talk of hiring, firing, employment, unemployment, skills shortages and retraining. The latter seems to have more potential for a long term payback in...
[24 Feb 2004]
Comment I remember Google as the first time I decided to make a search engine my home page. Google cleverly kept that in the background, replacing complex and cluttered pages with a simple and direct search facility.
[03 Nov 2003]
Comment Yet why should we suppose that the search for profit is the most appropriate deciding factor to dominate all our efforts? I know what we use them for, but does that lead to results that we really want?
[07 May 2003]
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