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| Microsoft Challenges Google's PageRank Technology
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| NewsFactor - Microsoft engineers, in collaboration with researchers at several Asian institutions, have proposed a new method for improving upon the Web page rankings produced by today's search engine requests. Called BrowseRank, the new approach adds a human factor to the process by weighing how people actually use the Internet, the collaborators reported in a paper recently presented before the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. -- read full article |
| Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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| You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
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| InfoWorld - What happened this week? The big names posted their quarterly results, the recording industry suffered more setbacks, and the Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn kerfuffle once again appears to be over (this time it might actually be true). Rogue IT admins and spammers also got their comeuppance, though some managed to escape. -- read full article |
| Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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| Google Offers Knol, a Wikipedia Copy with Attribution
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| NewsFactor - On Wednesday Google took the lid off a new product called Knol. The search-engine giant first announced it was testing the product in December. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. -- read full article |
| Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:55:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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| Microsoft defends search investments to analysts
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|  AP - Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.
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| Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:14:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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| To Expand Your Business, Go Home
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| BusinessWeek Online - Plenty of Web entrepreneurs start their ventures at home and move into commercial spaces only when they expand. Unity Stoakes and Steven H. Krein did it backwards. They ditched their office space in midtown Manhattan a year after founding OrganizedWisdom, a health search engine vetted by physicians, and sent their staff of nine to work from home. And after more than a year of running OrganizedWisdom remotely, Stoakes and Krein wouldn't do it any other way. -- read full article |
| Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:08:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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| Strange Google Names
(PC Magazine)
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| PC Magazine - The search monolith is snatching up Web addresses that are misspellings or variations (some risqué) of its name, as well as stockpiling seemingly random ones. Here's a sampling. -- read full article |
| Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:35:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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| Yahoo net profit falls nearly 19 percent
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|  Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday
posted a nearly 19 percent fall in net profit, and net revenue
short of lowered Wall Street expectations, as it faced a
weakening economy and the distraction of Microsoft Corp's
pursuit.
-- read full article |
| Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:33:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines |
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