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InternetNews November 11, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Microsoft Is No Threat To Google -- Yet The software giant's unparalleled ability to integrate its search tools into Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office components could give it a huge competitive advantage. But first it must greatly improve the quality of its new search service. |
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages. |
InternetNews June 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Testing RSS Reader MSN quietly turned on a new version of Start.com, a different take on the personalized search home page. |
PC Magazine August 24, 2005 Jamie Lendino |
Google Desktop 2.0 (Beta) Yahoo!'s still the king of desktop search but Google Desktop 2.0's sidebar offers a compelling new way to navigate both your own computer and the Internet. |
InternetNews December 22, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft Search to be Pervasive MSN's homegrown search technology will make its way into the broad range of products, a Microsoft executive said. But the company plans to avoid the bundling issue. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Still Searching Today, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to its MSN search capabilities, as well as a preview of search functions to come. |
InternetNews August 17, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
Search Engine Watch January 13, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine Microsoft released a public preview of its long-awaited web search technology today. The company also gave a facelift to its popular MSN Search site that remains powered by Yahoo's search technology and dropped paid inclusion listings there. |
InternetNews August 19, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Post Google IPO: Now, the Really Hard Part With Google's IPO completed, the search leader must compete not only on its stock price, but on its core search technology and its search engine marketing offering. |
InternetNews January 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Launching New Search Tuesday Microsoft's MSN division is to announce switchover to home-grown search technology. |
Search Engine Watch December 13, 2004 Chris Sherman |
MSN Joins the Desktop Search Fray Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate. System requirements for MSN Desktop are listed here. |
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Officially Switches To Its Own Technology Nearly two years after announcing it would develop its own search technology, MSN Search began feeding the general public results found through its own internally developed search engine. |
PC World August 2004 Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
InternetNews November 12, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Fights for Google Search Share MSN Search is the latest entrant in a crowded market. Can it stand up to the competition? |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
InternetNews August 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
Search Engine Watch February 16, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
InternetNews May 5, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Search Share Anyone's Guess Is MSN gaining or losing search share to Google in North America? It depends who you ask. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
Search Engine Watch January 26, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Searching For a Better Image Ask Jeeves has launched a brand-new image search service, using some innovative techniques to identify high-quality pictures on the web. See how it stacks up against the competition. |
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Ben Elgin |
Google's Leap May Slow Rivals' Growth MSN and Yahoo! face new challenges as their share of the search engine market falls, but they are offering new search features to remain competitive. |
Search Engine Watch December 15, 2005 Chris Sherman Gary Price |
Google Adds Music Search Feature Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries. |
Search Engine Watch May 16, 2005 Chris Sherman |
MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches After five months in beta, Microsoft has released the final version of its desktop search application, incorporating many new features based on extensive user feedback. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
Search Engine Watch March 22, 2004 Greg Jarboe |
Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars. |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc. |
InternetNews February 23, 2005 |
Yahoo Improves Its Images Enhancements to its image search include an increase in the image index. |
InternetNews December 13, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray Microsoft officials announced the release of its own desktop search application Monday, hoping to make up Google ground established two months ago. |
Search Engine Watch January 19, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
PC Magazine March 2, 2005 Cade Metz et al. |
Total Recall In recent months, several companies have introduced free applications that let you search your desktop as easily as you search the Web. We put eight of them to the test. |
InternetNews October 15, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google's New Threat to Microsoft Google Desktop Search, which for now works with Windows XP, Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and above, represents a new front in Microsoft's war for the Web. |
Search Engine Watch March 30, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Making Your Searches More Contextually Aware Aware, a desktop search application that learns from context, automatically fine-tunes your search results and provides controls that allow you to influence the importance of your search terms. |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use. |
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Desktop Search Out of Beta Yahoo has released its Desktop Search to the public. The product, which was released in beta in January, now includes LiveWords contextual search. |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2004 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update About.com sold its Sprinks ad network to Google... Amazon has entered the search field in a big way... AOL has renewed its use of the Google Web and ad databases... Ask Jeeves added an advanced search page... Gigablast has removed the date sort option... etc. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2004 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves added indexed PDF files to its results... For Internet Explorer users, Ask added a "binoculars preview"... Gigablast has been busy expanding its database size... Google is now indexing the text content of Flash files... etc. |
The Motley Fool December 13, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Google's Suggestive New Service Google Suggest may come as no shock, but it's useful and accurate. |
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Web Portals Make a Comeback Google, Yahoo, and MSN are constantly adding more features to their portals... The community is taking a role in search engines... Microsoft's PlaysForSure concept isn't completely accurate... |
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Pike et al. |
The Experts' Guide to Google Yahoo MSN and AOL A review of the search, Web mail, instant-messaging services and uncover other features of the four largest portals. |
Information Today October 25, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Google Introduces Desktop Search Tool The race to offer tools to find information buried in your PC has just gotten much more interesting. |
InternetNews January 11, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Latest in Desktop Search Play The Internet portal's beta desktop search tool is the latest addition to the competitive desktop search arena. |
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Are Google Results More Relevant? New third party evidence adds fuel to the fire as to whether Google, MSN or Yahoo! actually provides searchers what they want. |