search engines in comment and analysis
Analysis: Search engines take the stand
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]
Leader: Bring on the new search engines
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.08.04
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]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
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]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
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]
Surfers beware: The search engine may not be what it seems
Comment Just as many travel agents are linked to certain airlines, search engines are becoming linked by marketing contracts to certain commercial entities. These engines trawl the Web in different ways to catalogue what's 'out there' and then throw up... [21 Aug 1998]
Devil's Advocate: The Microsoft-to-Google defection
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]
Minority Report: Tempting the 'iPod to Mac' switchers
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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.08.07
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]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for mobile search
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]
Mike Lynch
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]
Google searches for more moola (part two)
Comment From the perspective of the advertiser, search engines are becoming increasingly important to target consumers because the general public filters advertising deliberately," said Damian Burns, digital account director with London-based Zenith... [30 Jul 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: How to do WAP, the death of the PC, and Baan's troubled times
Comment Conventional search engines do not discriminate in this way, and will present a huge amount of redundant information to WAP users. Now, though, Fast Search and Transfer has launched a search engine that it claims is the fastest and most... [05 Mar 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Google's magic formula, going mobile, and Oracle's testing times
Comment Brin and Page were throwing themselves into what would appear to be the already overcrowded market for search engines. This is testament to the management of the company and, of course, the beauty of its search capability. [08 Jul 2002]
Leader: Stop self-policing
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]
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