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Flight booking checks into mobiles
News Justtheflight.co.uk, a flight booking website based in the Isle of Man, claims to be the first to launch a search-and-book facility for the mobile phone. The company, owned and operated by Online Retail Travel Group (ORTG), offers consumers the... [23 Jul 2008]
Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business
News Headed by Harry Shum, the centre's research will focus on search relevance, spam prevention and searching scanned images, such as book pages. The company has been criticised by financial analysts for being slow to capitalise on advertising revenue... [27 Jul 2007]
Privacy: Do online shoppers care?
News Would you pay a little more for that book you bought online if it meant lowering your chances of being hassled by marketers, spammers and hackers? The Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Lab (Cups) monitored the habits of people ranging in... [08 Jun 2007]
Google offers multimedia uber-search
News The changes will expose to more people some "underutilised" Google services, such as Book Search and Video search, and they will help boost the company's already huge market share, Brin said. In its biggest ever revamp to its homepage, Google has... [17 May 2007]
Boo! Look who's back...
News One of the most high-profile failures of the dot-com crash has been relaunched.boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking and travel booking site... [03 May 2007]
Wikipedia woos the old world
News The spokesman added: "Not everyone is a comfortable, well-fed First World citizen with broadband so a book or CD or DVD is an important idea. It will come with its own search engine. The world's biggest and best-known online encyclopedia is going... [25 Apr 2007]
Google speaks to the book world
News To anyone who thinks digital content is a threat to the book-publishing market, Google wants to tell you two things: first, you're wrong; second, Google Book Search product is the solution, not the problem. [19 Jan 2007]
Google fixes Gmail address book flaw
News An attacker could create a malicious website that would copy all the entries in a Gmail user's address book, a potential treasure trove for spammers, according to a description of the problem on the "Googling Google" blog. [03 Jan 2007]
Microsoft launches book search beta
News Microsoft is set to release Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search, in beta today. The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project, in the same way that... [06 Dec 2006]
Ask plots local search mash-up
News Users can narrow their restaurant searches by cuisine type, neighbourhood, street name or zip code, as well as book a reservation through the site and send information to a phone. Ask.com is set to unveil a new local search service in the US that... [04 Dec 2006]
Microsoft worming into Google's territory
News Kirtas Technologies will scan works for Microsoft's Live Book Search web-based application, with the books starting to appear online early next year. Microsoft has announced a deal with a digital scanning company Kirtas Technologies to produce... [18 Oct 2006]
Google turns into teachers' pet
News It also has links to how-to guides on 12 Google applications, including web search, Book search, Google Maps, Google Video, Picasa photo-sharing and Google Docs, a free word-processing service. Late on Wednesday, the search giant launched a website... [12 Oct 2006]
Google archives 200 years of news
News A separate service, Google Book Search, now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free. Google is growing its news archive to include stories that go back as far as 200 years. [07 Sep 2006]
Google offers books for free
News Google Book Search now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free, Google announced on Wednesday. Readers can find the books by choosing the "Full view books" option on the Google Book Search homepage before they... [31 Aug 2006]
Digital library needs more help from UK
News The search giant is planning to expand its book search feature to allow users to download out of copyright books, such as Dante's Inferno. The UK is being urged to step up its efforts to contribute to a Europe-wide free digital library. [30 Aug 2006]
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