Social Search
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Internet search gets Web 2.0 style
Insight So-called social-search sites are heating up again. But experts doubt they'll unseat the good old-fashioned algorithm.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Web services
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
Yahoo hears call of audio search
News Company launches audio search beta to help people find music downloads, podcasts, newscasts, speeches and interviews.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Search, Music
Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too
News Mere hours after a deal with Microsoft was announced to index real-time 'tweets' in Bing, Google posted on its blog that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, too.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Web logs, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, social search, product manager
IBM opens 'social software' development center
News Based in Cambridge, Mass., it is designed as a research hub for everything from cloud computing to social search.
Tags: R&D, Business applications, IBM Corp., Social Software, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, venture capital, social search, Dow Jones & Company Inc., internal network
Sergey Brin: Yahoo shouldn't abandon search
News In a surprise Web 2.0 Summit talk, Google co-founder says he welcomes new search competition and is disappointed that Yahoo is backing off.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Conference, Sergey Brin, social search, Web 2.0
Targets for Google's merger machine
News What's next on Google's mergers and acquisitions list? Head of corporate development lists search, advertising and mobile services as "top priorities".
Tags: Search, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., David Lawee, JumpTap, advertisement, CEO, network, mobile, Search Result
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
Yahoo meets analyst expectations
News Posts first-quarter net income that's down from a year ago on higher stock compensation expenses but is in line with expectations.
Tags: Search, Earning reports/forecasts
Google unveils new applications
News Announces update to Google Desktop, as well as several new products designed to enhance information gathering on the Web.
Tags: Search, Web services
Analysts: Microsoft's after Google's ad business
News Conference attendees say the software giant is playing catch-up to search firm in high-tech power struggle.
Tags: Web services, Internet advertising
Searching for greater insights
Cobrand Collaboration in the enterprise and Internet communities will take search to greater heights, say Microsoft and Yahoo.
Tags: Web browsers, Search
Stumbleupon picks up the pace
News Company to unveil a public version of its Web discovery plug-in for Internet Explorer in hopes of expanding membership.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers
Yang speaks on Yahoo's China policy
News Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang defends China practices, says executives feel "horrible" over arrests.
