Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle

A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.

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Google provides peek into new search engine

Google has lifted the lid on a new version of its search engine, allowing users to look at the results it will generate.

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Details on Proposed Search Controls

Under the formal rules for "robots.txt," a Web site may refuse indexing of the entire site, specific directories or specific pages.

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News Web Sites Seek More Search Control

The desire for greater control over how search engines index and display Web sites is driving an effort launched Thursday by leading news organizations and other publishers to revise a 13-year-old technology for restricting access.

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Google Offers Transfer Tool for Computers

Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days.

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When the search engine Wolfram Alpha launched earlier this year, the interest was huge. Enticed by a well-oiled publicity machine, web users swamped the site and its servers were overwhelmed.

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Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.

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Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off.

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As major events unfold, Twitter, Facebook and other similar services are increasingly becoming the nation's virtual water coolers.

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Twitter is in talks with Google and Microsoft to make Tweets accessible in the real-time searches of the two major search engines, All Things Digital is reporting. Together Google Search (#1) and Microsoft's Bing (#3) own about an 80 per cent market share, with #2 Yahoo accoun …

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Maybe it has something to do with competition from Bing, but all of a sudden Google is really interested in guided search. Last May, it launched search options in the left-hand column of the results page which let you filter results by type, time, and other criteria.

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Now that "real-time" data has become a Web 2.0 (is it Web Squared now?) mantra, Google's keen to get the idea embedded into user's consciousness. The search giant is including a "HotTrends" data panel right into the search results to show the most active topics.

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Web pages have long included anchor links, which, when clicked, send you to a specific section of the page. Wikipedia uses them heavily to help users jump between headings and navigate the sometimes large articles more efficiently.

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There's no question about it: Google is great at search, and its huge lead over competitors is well deserved.

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Bibliophiles who can't warm up to the idea of curling up with an e-reader or a laptop instead of a bona fide book may be heartened to hear that Google just took a significant step in the direction of making more book titles available on short notice—in the offline world.

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Muslims will be able to surf the internet without the fear of accidentally encountering sinful material after a Dutch company launched the world's first Islamic search engine.

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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.

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Yahoo will be able to quit its internet search deal with Microsoft if it fails to meet certain market share and revenue targets.

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Microsoft increased its share of the U.S. Internet search market by another 1 percentage point in July, taking its combined share with new search partner Yahoo to 20.36 percent, according to data released on Monday.

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Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. agreed to collaborate on Internet search and online advertising, creating a united front to challenge Google Inc.

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Looking over the top 10 paid iPhone apps list today, the list appeared pretty typical: A bunch of games, a camera app, etc. Then I noticed one called Offender Locator [iTunes link], mostly because it has a creepy icon. I figured it was a game — it's anything but.

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Do We Depend Too Much on Google (and Other Search Engines) for Research?

I love search engines! And among the ones I've tried I especially love Google's search engine! It is much faster and easier to research many topics, to quickly check trivial facts, etc., using Google than it is to go to the library and look something up (or to call a libraria …

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Last week, a group of newspaper and magazine publishers signed a declaration stating that "Universal access to websites does not necessarily mean access at no cost," and that they "no longer wish to be forced to give away property without having granted permission."

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Microsoft is definitely relishing its Bing moment, communicating gains in market share every chance it gets to build a story of steady progression against both Google and Yahoo.

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You've probably heard the term "Federated Search". It's the term used to describe the process of simultaneously searching multiple search engines or online databases from a single search box.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Religiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now "Koogle" it on a new "kosher" search engine, the site manager said on Sunday. Yossi Altman said Koogle, a play on the names of a Jewish noodle pudding and the ubiquitous Google, appe …

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Remember not so very long ago how amazed you were that Google could return so many useful search results in just a split-second? Today, that kind of speed isn't enough for many people.

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Not a Google-killer (or even a Yahoo-killer) yet, but Bing shows some prowess

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Religiously devout Jews barred by rabbis from surfing the Internet may now "Koogle" it on a new "kosher" search engine, the site manager said on Sunday.

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nternet audience measurement company comScore has released a preliminary study of the performance of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, during the first week of its public launch.

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