Category: The search engine industry

This week Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon decided to join the forces trying to stop Google’s book scanning program.

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition of nonprofit groups, individuals and library associations to oppose a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital copies of millions of books.

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has made deals with publishers and libraries in order to be allowed to scan all the books in the world. It may sound like a mad man talking, but Google’s plan is actually to index the texts of all the printed material in the world and make it searchable on the net.

Yahoo! is to abandon its own search technology, according to a deal it has made with Microsoft. Bing will power Yahoo! search.

There has been a lot of discussion regarding the growth of the Microsoft search engine Bing this week. The question is: Is Bing growing fast enough?

This week Google (GGOG) announced the Google Chrome OS for PC’s, and people are as confused as ever as regards what Google is up to. Pandia argues that this is not another random innovation from Google’s side, but part of a long term strategy for Google’s continuous domination of the web.

Ask and Ask Jeeves goes back to basics and launches an enlarged question and answer database that allows for natural language search queries.

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Ask.com tries to sneak in an Ask toolbar by adding a topframe to search engine results — again. That is bad idea.

Jeeves the butler reappeares at the UK version of Ask.com.