http://www.eweek.com Search Engines - RSS Feeds en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:47:36 -0500 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:47:36 -0500 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:57:22 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Automates-Captions-in-YouTube-For-The-Deaf-113049/?kc=rss - In the latest example of how Google uses its technology to improve user experience for its other Web services, the search engine Nov. 19 paired its automatic speech recognition technology with its YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algori...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Automates-Captions-in-YouTube-For-The-Deaf-113049/?kc=rss Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:58:47 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Microsoft-Bing-Are-Squeezing-Yahoo-in-Search-258781/?kc=rss - Google and Microsoft are steadily squeezing Yahoo in the search engine market, according to October 2009 statistics from researcher comScore. Google paced the market with 65.4 share, up from its 64.9 percent share in September. Microsoft Bing nearly reached double digits with 9.9 percent, up fro...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Microsoft-Bing-Are-Squeezing-Yahoo-in-Search-258781/?kc=rss Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:00:47 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Nips-and-Tucks-Google-Book-Search-Deal-832423/?kc=rss - Google, authors and publishers Nov. 13 narrowed the scope of their agreement to let Google sell access to millions of out-of-print books online, limiting it to include works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office or published in the United Kingdom, Australia or Canada. Financial terms of the...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Nips-and-Tucks-Google-Book-Search-Deal-832423/?kc=rss Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:49:19 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Wields-Wolfram-Alpha-Vs-Google-in-Data-Duel-269322/?kc=rss - News Analysis: Microsoft continues to wheel and deal with its Bing search engine, as it seeks to overtake Google, but the leader with 65 percent market share is not sitting still. The latest duel is in data computation. Microsoft has it, courtesy of Wolfram Alpha. Google does not,...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Wields-Wolfram-Alpha-Vs-Google-in-Data-Duel-269322/?kc=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:25 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Wolfram-Alpha-Details-Bill-Gates-Question-Microsoft-Interest-752299/?kc=rss - Microsoft's interest in incorporating quot;computational engine quot; Wolfram Alpha into its own Bing search began earlier in 2009, according to a member of the Wolfram Alpha team. The search engine provides a definitive answer to query rather than a page of links, and it apparently threw Bill ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Wolfram-Alpha-Details-Bill-Gates-Question-Microsoft-Interest-752299/?kc=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:07:26 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Experts-Say-Googles-AdMob-Bid-Shouldnt-Spark-Antitrust-Concerns-796717/?kc=rss - Experts say the mobile ad market is too immature, small and fragmented for antitrust regulators to try to quell Google's bid to buy mobile ad exchange AdMob. When Google bid to buy AdMob for $750 million in stock Nov. 9, the search engine made sure to position the buy as a complement to its exist...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Experts-Say-Googles-AdMob-Bid-Shouldnt-Spark-Antitrust-Concerns-796717/?kc=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:36:53 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Caffeine-Search-Upgrade-Coming-in-2010-875997/?kc=rss - Google's Caffeine next-generation search infrastructure won't be available for the majority of searchers until sometime in January, its lead engineer confirmed Nov. 10. Search geeks and Google users were excited in August when Caffeine's principal engineer Matt Cutts unveiled a de...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Caffeine-Search-Upgrade-Coming-in-2010-875997/?kc=rss Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:49:51 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-AdMob-Bid-Galvanizes-The-Mobile-Ad-Industry-421747/?kc=rss - News Analysis: While Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have all purchased mobile ad specialists in the last two years, the remaining players have been waiting for something, anything to galvanize their tender green field and open the door for more partnerships with Internet giants. Google...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-AdMob-Bid-Galvanizes-The-Mobile-Ad-Industry-421747/?kc=rss Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:55 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Book-Search-Hearing-Delayed-Again-662185/?kc=rss - Google and the authors and publishers with which it is trying to settle a five-year copyright feud on Nov. 9 asked the judge hearing the case for another delay so that they can make the deal more palatable for the Department of Justice. Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American P...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Book-Search-Hearing-Delayed-Again-662185/?kc=rss Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:37:34 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Trumps-Google-Yahoo-in-Total-Time-Spent-Online-584004/?kc=rss - People are spending more time on the Internet searching more, shopping more and perhaps even working more online. ComScore Nov. 6 said some 27 billion hours were spent on the Internet by 1.2 billion worldwide Internet users in September 2009, or 24 percent more than the 21.7 billion total hours...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Trumps-Google-Yahoo-in-Total-Time-Spent-Online-584004/?kc=rss Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:32:31 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Dashboard-Provides-Too-Much-Info-And-Yet-Not-Enough-651069/?kc=rss - News Analysis: With Google Dashboard, Google again finds itself in a no-win situation. In a utopian world, the search engine would be roundly praised for providing a window into the data users generate from using Google applications. Yet whenever Google puts a foot forward, advertising its acti...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Dashboard-Provides-Too-Much-Info-And-Yet-Not-Enough-651069/?kc=rss Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:54:54 -0500 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Commerce-Search-Launches-For-The-Holidays-396931/?kc=rss - No company more than Google understands the kind of traffic the holiday season begets. Search engine users hammer Google, Yahoo and Bing with searches of popular e-commerce sites to search for deals. Girding itself for the holiday e-commerce rush, Google Nov. 5 launched Google Commerce Search t...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Commerce-Search-Launches-For-The-Holidays-396931/?kc=rss Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:19:10 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Facebook-Brings-More-Clarity-to-Privacy-Policy-Social-Ads-453727/?kc=rss - Facebook made good on its pledge to revise and clarify its privacy policy Oct. 29, offering detailed explanations on how users can alter their account information or erase their profiles from the social network. Facebook calls this the next step on the path to quot;run Facebook i...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Facebook-Brings-More-Clarity-to-Privacy-Policy-Social-Ads-453727/?kc=rss Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:40:41 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Yahoo-Delay-Search-Deal-to-Dot-Is-Cross-Ts-599609/?kc=rss - Microsoft and Yahoo have delayed signing their blockbuster search deal to finalize the details, Yahoo said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Oct. 28. The search engine rivals July 29 inked a 10-year deal in which Microsoft's Bing search engine would power Yaho...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Yahoo-Delay-Search-Deal-to-Dot-Is-Cross-Ts-599609/?kc=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:49:58 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/How-Twitter-Search-Will-Help-Google-Microsoft-Bing-278139/?kc=rss - One week ago today on Oct. 21, Microsoft and Google both announced deals to index Twitter messages at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Microsoft launched its Bing Twitter site for indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promised that Twitter content will be integrated into G...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/How-Twitter-Search-Will-Help-Google-Microsoft-Bing-278139/?kc=rss