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Twitter may charge companies that 'tweet'

News Micro-blogging site is considering charging firms that use the service to market their brands, company's co-founder says. Service will remain free for individuals.

Wednesday, February 11 2009 08:23 AM

Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Twitter, PC Company, Tool, JetBlue Airways Corp., Advertisement, marketing, customer service, revenue

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.

Tuesday, May 26 2009 06:59 PM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Search, Semantic Web, Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, W3C, social bookmarking, software, natural language

Yahoo unveils blog search tool

News Move follows launch of similar feature by rival Google last month.

Tuesday, October 11 2005 10:09 AM

Tags: Search

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.

Tuesday, March 03 2009 11:06 AM

Tags: Search, Twitter, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Tool, Kumo, Environment, co-founder, Search Technology, search tool

LinkedIn unveils new search platform

News The business social-networking site says it examined more than a billion search queries executed by members to create new productivity tools.

Tuesday, November 25 2008 11:29 AM

Tags: Search, Domain names, HR policies and procedures, Workforce, Tool, Platform, Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, product manager, spell checker

Google squares up to complex searches

News Google Squared, now available for public evaluation, is a Labs project that presents results in a new, spreadsheet-like format.

Friday, June 05 2009 10:45 AM

Tags: Web sites, Google Inc., Tool, Grid, Environment, product manager, Search Result, search tool, Internet, blog

UK intelligence site breached by hacker

News Intelligence agency has closed up a cross-site scripting vulnerability on its Web site after details of the flaw were published on a hacker forum.

Friday, July 31 2009 11:06 AM

Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Hacking, Spokesperson, Flaw, malicious attack, search tool, Hacker, agency, Web Site

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.

Friday, July 10 2009 08:19 AM

Tags: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search

Google readying microblog search?

News Google might soon add a way to search microblogging sites like Twitter, as the amount of content generated by those services explodes.

Tuesday, June 16 2009 10:10 AM

Tags: Search, Web services, Twitter, Google Inc., Search Result, Google Search, Search Technology, search tool, shareholder, Marissa Mayer

Kayak broadside hits Microsoft's search redesign

News Microsoft slapped with litigation threat this week for looking too similar to Kayak's site both in look and functionality.

Friday, June 26 2009 11:24 AM

Tags: Lawsuits, Development/design, Copyright, Web Browser, Search Engine, Google Chrome, British Broadcasting Corp., search tool, search business, Wired Inc.

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.

Thursday, May 08 2008 11:11 AM

Tags: Search, Business development/management, Business plans, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Google Inc., Advertisement, Japan, image search

Sun updates OpenSolaris

News The second release of OpenSolaris incorporates improvements aimed at making it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.

Sunday, December 07 2008 11:33 PM

Tags: UNIX, Open source, Network infrastructure, Virtualization, GNOME, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Hardware, software