Category: The search engine industry

Microsoft’s directors yesterday considered upping its bid for Yahoo!

Microsoft has redesigned its new search engine, and Pandia likes what it sees.

AltSearchEngines is hosting the first ever Get Together by and for Alt Search Engines. It will be on Monday, April 21st, one day before the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Did you know there are more than 150 alternative search engines out there, each daring to take the bull by the horns and challenge the three titans of search, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Charles Knight, the man behind the AltSearchEngines blog has invited 150 alternative search engines to a get together, figuring that the inventive people behind the World’s alternative search engines will have much to discuss.

Today Reporters Without Borders have launched the first International Online Free Expression Day. The organization rallies everyone, but bloggers and Internet professionals especially, to participate in a 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship.

It seems Ask is giving up its own search technology, turning Ask.com into an information portal for women.

Google Sites allows anyone to put up a collaboration web site for project management, team coordination, a company intranet or extranet, and other types of online information gathering where several people are contributing.

No, Yahoo! Live is not a combination of Microsoft Live Search and the Yahoo! search engine. That’s a little bit premature. No, Yahoo! Live is Yahoo’s new streaming video service.

If anyone wondered whether Google is concerned about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!, wonder no more. They are. We argue that Google is using scare tactics against Microsoft.