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Intelligence sifting through the Web
News Interest in the Semantic Web appears to be taking off, with users flocking to social bookmarking sites and search engines incorporating new technology.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Search, Semantic Web, Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, W3C, social bookmarking, software, natural language
Unfamiliarity stems demand for 'soft' search
News Search providers focusing more closely on churning contextualized results, but adoption remains niche for now due to lack of user understanding, say analysts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Internet advertising, Semantic Web, Site, Search Result, Search Technology, Internet, analyst, Search
Is Google's user interface outdated?
News Silicon Valley executives say Google isn't doing enough to innovate on its search results pages, especially in an era of near-ubiquitous broadband.
Microsoft to start testing 'Kumo' search service
News Beginning this week, some of Redmond's employees will get access to the new look for Microsoft's Live Search, CNET News has learned.
Tags: Search, Twitter, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Tool, Kumo, Environment, co-founder, Search Technology, search tool
Microsoft's Plan B for search
News Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is eyeing semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google.
Tags: Search, Web services, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Search Engine, job, professor
Microsoft's Kumo sneaks out in public
News Some of the design changes that are part of the upcoming search engine revamp are now in limited public testing, the software giant confirms.
Tags: Search, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Kumo, release candidate, software, Search Technology
Report: Microsoft to unveil Kumo search engine next week
News Company expected to demo its next-generation search technology at the D:All Things Digital technology conference, according to reports citing unnamed sources.
Tags: Search, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Spokesperson, Ina Fried, News Corp., Search Technology
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
Search leaders debate semantics
News Everyone agrees that semantic search technology--the notion of correctly assessing a searcher's intent--holds promise, and maybe money.
Tags: Search, Web services, Search, Ask.com, W3C, Internet search, Search Engine, Web services, leader, Web
Semantic Web breaking out of the lab
News Semantic Web technology is on the verge of becoming commercially viable for businesses looking to develop their Web capabilities.
Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Semantic Web, Yahoo! Inc., Database, Tim Berners-Lee, search engine company, Silicon.com, billing, R&D
Microsoft on search: We'll dig deeper
News The software giant says it can do a better job than Google by paying closer attention to your search patterns.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Search Engine, Advertisement, payment, Search Result, San Jose
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
Yahoo opens search tech to all comers
News A program called BOSS lets you build research projects and businesses on Yahoo search results. Then comes phase two: making money by selling more search ads.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, social networking, monetization, Yahoo Search, revenue, shareholder
Spying an intelligent search engine
News Innovation in Web search using artificial intelligence may lead to the day when you could expect the Web to do the tedious tasks for you.
Any chance for natural language search?
Blogs Do you remember Ask Jeeves, now simply known as Ask? It was different because unlike other search engines, it allowed...
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