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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
Netex gets patent, could make Google pay
News Internet giants the likes of Google and Yahoo may have to pay an Israeli company for a search patent, which it has obtained in the United States.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Patent, Web Browser, Israeli company, stock price, search engine company, TechCrunch, search bar, WWW
Singapore firm offers street-level maps, too
News Local mapping startup Gothere.sg, provides street-level images covering 70 percent of country; intends to integrate these with Google's Street View service.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web services, Singapore, photograph, API, search engine company, camera, Pittsburgh, team
Yahoo shareholders content to wait and see
News CEO Bartz promised to turn Yahoo around by focusing on content and organization in her first annual shareholder meeting.
Tags: Domain names, Business structures, Content management, Yahoo! Inc., online media, search engine company, content company, China, shareholder, board of directors
New filters in Google search for speed, news
News Google adds several new filters to its search options panel unveiled in May, letting searchers find results from just the last hour, or results from within Google News and Books.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., advertisement, Web sites, Web Page, search engine company, product manager, Search Result
CBS to buy CNET Networks
News Media conglomerate plans to purchase CNET Networks, publisher of News.com, in a deal valued at US$1.8 billion.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, CBS Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, search engine company, partnership, CNET Networks Inc., Internet, U.S.
Google Earth gets Google News
News Google Earth now can show Google News in a new layer. The Internet is global, but increasingly, it's local, too.
Tags: Search, Web services, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Google Earth, geotagging, search engine company, product manager, software, Google News
Where Google isn't Goliath
News Russia's Yandex--set to go public on Nasdaq--is innovating in a hurry to hold off the U.S. giant.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web services, Internet advertising, Software, Google Inc., search engine company, Yandex, bank, China
Google: Weathering the economy?
News news analysis The search giant's second-quarter results disappointed investors, but CEO Schmidt believes on-target sales indicate it is shrugging off the broader malaise.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, foreign-exchange, search engine company, marketing, Hitwise, revenue, hiring, U.S.
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
Google ramps up defense of Yahoo ad search deal
News Blog postings on the search giant's policy site say the proposed deal will not affect competition nor raise advertising prices.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Regulator, search engine company, antitrust, Eric Schmidt
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
Enterprise search: The target is moving
News Lucid Imagination, an open-source enterprise search company, wants to compete with the established players. However, its target is already shifting.
Tags: Search, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise risk management, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Enterprise Search, Interwoven, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Document Management, Endeca Technologies Inc.
Microsoft online head: Search could be hugely profitable
News However, Qi Lu acknowledges that profits will come only if the company can gain share, even beyond what it will get in the Yahoo deal.
Tags: Search, Sales/revenue, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Advertisement, search engine company, financial analyst, brand, Search
Why US Justice Dept wants more on Yahoo search deal
News Microsoft and Yahoo's move to condense the number of serious players in the search market could prompt the U.S. Department of Justice to impose conditions on the deal.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web browsers, Web services, Web Page, U.S. Department Of Justice, search engine company, Washington, Yahoo Search, Search Technology, merger
