Category: The search engine industry

Microsoft considers increasing its bid for Yahoo!

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

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Posted on Thursday 1 May 2008
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Microsoft improves Live News Search

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

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Posted on Sunday 20 April 2008
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Get Together by and for alternative search engines

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.

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Posted on Monday 17 March 2008
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12 March: 24-hour online demo for Online Free Expression Day

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.

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Posted on Wednesday 12 March 2008
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The end of Ask as we know it

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

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Posted on Sunday 9 March 2008
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Google adds free online eroom collaboration tool

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.

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Posted on Thursday 28 February 2008
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Yahoo! Live is, alas, not yet alive

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.

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Posted on Friday 8 February 2008
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On Google’s reaction to Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!

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.

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Posted on Monday 4 February 2008
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