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S'pore firm claims patent to image search
News Singapore company says it owns patent to technology used by millions of online sites worldwide to link graphics and pictures to other Web pages.
Tags: Copyright, Patents, Web sites, SMB, Patent, Image, Search Engine, Singapore, intellectual property, image search
Porn sneaks past search filters
News Search companies are increasingly turning to censorware to court G-rated customers such as corporations, schools and parents, but they're still showing too much skin.
Google applies for image text patent
News Google has filed a patent for the recognition and use of text contained in images and videos.
Tags: Patents, Digital media
Google image search gets usage rights filtering
News Google updates its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.
Tags: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search
Google to appeal German copyright decisions
News German courts rule in favor of content owners in two separate cases Monday, both having to do with display of copyrighted content in thumbnails attached to search results.
Tags: Web sites, Copyright, Lawsuits, Google Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Internet User, image search, Paidcontent.org, search engine company, Germany
Google offers snapshot of VisualRank efforts
News Google's new VisualRank technology will bring better and meaningful results for image searches. One of its innovations includes a limited set of facial recognition characteristics.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Hewlett-Packard Co., Facial Recognition, Google Inc., image search, web technology, researcher, Beijing, Adobe PDF
Ex-Googler launches rival Cuil search engine
News A new search tool that has been launched claims to have 120 billion pages indexed, well over the 40 billion Google reportedly has.
Tags: Search, Google Inc., Search Engine, image search, professor, brand, desktop, Google PageRank, data network, Search
CERN's big collider now in action
News The first particle beam successfully traverses the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest machine. Still to come: creating mini black holes.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, Video, grid computing, image search, England, University of Cambridge, photograph, career, U.K.
The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher
News Work being done to prep CERN's Large Hadron Collider for operation is paving the way for future lightning-speed networks.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Data, CERN, image search, software, Switzerland, Silicon.com, network, researcher
Google's vision improving for image search
News Researchers at Google believe they have found an accurate method of using reams to data to make computers "see", and identify, images of famous landmarks.
Tags: Search, Google Picasa, Google Inc., Image, clustering, computer, photograph, image search, Miami, vision
Chinese govt to Web firms: No porn allowed
News China has intensified its campaign against sexually-explicit Internet material by instructing companies, including Google, to curb the availability of pornography.
Tags: Politics, Web sites, Search, Pornography, Security, Google Inc., image search, British Broadcasting Corp., blogging, China
Microsoft to show new search technology this month
News The software maker plans to show off improvements in overall relevance and shopping-related queries at its advertising conference this month.
Tags: Search, Business development/management, Business plans, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Google Inc., Advertisement, Japan, image search
Kumo: Already a step behind Google, Yahoo?
News In the months that Microsoft has been testing Kumo, both Yahoo and Google have been working on their own search enhancements. Will Microsoft's update be enough?
Tags: Search, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search, News Corp., Kumo, IM, revenue
Google: We're good for journalism
News Under fire for being a 'parasite' that's hurting the media business, Google offers a rebuttal in Senate testimony.
Tags: Internet advertising, News, Site, Google Inc., Search Engine, Tool, Article, Advertisement, Google News, Google Search
World of Internet patents lands on Singapore's shores
Blogs I have just written an alert for our clients pointing out that a Singapore company has asked for license fees for the us...
