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RSS indexes in newsHoles found in Google Desktop
News The tool indexes and combs through emails, documents and files on the user's PC and stores web pages as part of its approach. Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and... [22 Feb 2007]
Search rivals buddy up for better crawling
News are teaming up to make it easier for website owners to make sure their sites get included in the web indexes. Search engine rivals Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! The trio are adopting Google's Sitemaps protocol, available... [16 Nov 2006]
Government "in denial" about true ID card costs
News He said: "The first screen of every departmental system will need a new field to allow a search of records by ID number and there will be a transition period for the first 10 years where every database will need to search by both the new... [03 Nov 2005]
Shareholders take a swipe at Sun
News Sun, whose stock under-performed those of competitors such as Dell and key indexes such as the S&P 500, has been struggling to turn its business around and push its lackluster share price beyond the $3 to $4 range, where... [22 Sep 2005]
Google launches tools for hurricane relief
News Katrina People Search indexes information collated from several public databases, including the Red Cross. Google has created search tools designed to locate information and people, following the devastation of Hurricane... [13 Sep 2005]
Oracle chief gets 44 per cent pay hike - and $6.5m bonus
News However, measured against the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Software indexes over a five-year period, the stock has underperformed, according to Oracle's SEC filing. Oracle chief Larry Ellison received a salary hike and bonus,... [01 Sep 2005]
UK births, marriages, deaths records to move to India
News The database will be created by digitising paper records and centralising existing disparate indexes and systems for the UK population dating back to 1837. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) is to outsource a new... [23 Jun 2005]
Microsoft plays catch up in search market
News To address some privacy concerns with desktop search tools, Microsoft updated the software to let people control which files the software indexes and how often. Microsoft is set to release a final version of its... [16 May 2005]
Update: Jeeves buys Bloglines
News Founded in 2003, Bloglines indexes more than 280 million live web content elements including audio feeds, blogs, images and news feeds. Internet search company Ask Jeeves has finalised the acquisition of Trustic, which... [08 Feb 2005]
MSN takes desktop battle back to Google
News The technology indexes the user's hard drive over hours at first, then it continuously adds to the index as documents are created. Microsoft's MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race... [14 Dec 2004]
Google's reach gets bigger
News Coughran also said that Google's army of programmers would keep working on better systems for cataloguing the web, and to help users search through Google's indexes. In a posting on the company's own blog on Wednesday,... [11 Nov 2004]
Google squares up to Microsoft
News Then as the application runs, it indexes new documents and visited web pages in real time. The company, which will report earnings for the first time as a public company next week, has created Google Desktop Search, a... [14 Oct 2004]
Internet and China dominate "Global Titans" agenda
News The research was conducted by Dow Jones Indexes, a wing of publisher Dow Jones & Co. The world's leading businesses expect big things from the internet in the near future, according to a new study. In a survey of major... [11 Oct 2004]
The Search Wars have begun as Yahoo! turns on Google
News Inktomi has developed so-called algorithmic search technology similar to Google's that indexes web pages and ranks them based on search terms. Yahoo! will drop search partner Google during the first quarter of 2004 in... [15 Jan 2004]
Smaller UK tech stocks head rally
News But that rally proved to be short-lived, with other technology indexes, such as the techMark 100, falling to an all-time low of 60 per cent less than its value at the beginning of 2002. Technology stocks of smaller... [21 Aug 2003]
