Reuters - French Internet service provider Free and
Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc
over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in
France, French daily Les Echos reports. -- read full article
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Tuesday it had agreed to buy Powerset, a start-up that is
working on a new class of Web search that relies on insights
from linguistics rather than simple keyword strings.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Under Powerset's hood is decades-in-the-making natural-language processing technology the company licensed from the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly of Xerox. -- read full article
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo
Inc's search business and has approached other media companies
about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to
Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street Journal said. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Adobe announced Tuesday that pages inside Flash-based sites will be indexed in search sites such as Google and Yahoo! -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:54:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced a new initiative with Google and Yahoo to improve search results for dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). -- read full article
Reuters - A major Hollywood studio and online
search engine Google Inc on unveiled separate moves on Monday
to put movie and TV-like content on the Web, highlighting the
way in which both see the Internet as critical to reaching
customers.
Reuters - Citigroup added Google Inc and Time Warner Inc
to its top picks live list, based on the search engine giant's
near- and long-term outlook and a possible sale of Time
Warner's AOL advertising and dial-up businesses.
NewsFactor - Having staked out a position on your PC and many mobile devices, Google now has its sights on your living room. Late last week, the search giant announced the release of a free beta version of Google Media Server, a Windows application that seeks to bridge the gap between a PC and a TV. -- read full article
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
TechWeb - InformationWeek - CEO Bill Green said the results showed that its increasingly global business of management consulting and outsourcing was helping it grow despite a challenging environment. -- read full article
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:41:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
Reuters - Yahoo told shareholders on
Wednesday that the search advertising pact it signed with
Google earlier this month was "financially attractive"
and struck the right strategic balance.
