http://www.eweek.com Search Engines - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:02:11 -0400 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:02:11 -0400 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:26:21 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-YouTube-Win-Dismissal-of-Some-Damages-Claims-109849/?kc=rss - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) A U.S. judge dismissed some damages claims in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google Inc and its video-sharing Web site YouTube.com but left open the possibility that non-U.S. based rights owners could seek damages for live broadcasts, if they prevail. A group of ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-YouTube-Win-Dismissal-of-Some-Damages-Claims-109849/?kc=rss Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:58:56 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Analysts-Offer-Mixed-Views-on-Google-Chrome-OS-Impact-Vs-Microsoft-Windows-739100/?kc=rss - Google July 7 formally unveiled its entry into the computer operating system software market with the Google Chrome Operating System, a lightweight OS that will run on top of a Linux kernel to power Web applications. The move, announced casually by Google the evening of July 7 in a blog post by ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Analysts-Offer-Mixed-Views-on-Google-Chrome-OS-Impact-Vs-Microsoft-Windows-739100/?kc=rss Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:16:44 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Facebook-Sees-500-Boost-in-Users-Aged-55-and-Older-538731/?kc=rss - Months after research indicated that Twitter's growth burst was fueled by working users in the 25- to 54-year-old age range, Facebook has experienced a quot;staggering increase, quot; in users 513.7 percent aged 55 and older in the last six months. iStrategyLabs, which culled demographics and s...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Facebook-Sees-500-Boost-in-Users-Aged-55-and-Older-538731/?kc=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:55:14 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Yahoo-Search-Pad-Exits-Beta-to-Boost-Web-Research-618038/?kc=rss - Yahoo July 7 plans to roll out a Web-based annotation tool for its search engine that lets users grab content and sock it away in one page for quick and dirty reference. Yahoo Search Pad, in beta since February, is designed to alleviate the pain points users have in taking content culled from We...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Yahoo-Search-Pad-Exits-Beta-to-Boost-Web-Research-618038/?kc=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:03:03 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Readers-Debate-Microsoft-Bing-Vs-Google-With-Religious-Fervor-295201/?kc=rss - In case people hadn't noticed, there is a new holy war boiling up from the land of Web search engines. Microsoft's Bing search engine has only been public for more than a month and it is already drawing comparisons to Google's leading search engine. Comparisons between Google and M...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Readers-Debate-Microsoft-Bing-Vs-Google-With-Religious-Fervor-295201/?kc=rss Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:06:46 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/DOJ-Launches-Formal-Investigation-Into-Google-Book-Search-Settlement-259532/?kc=rss - The U.S. Justice Department July 2 said it is formally investigating the $125 million settlement between Google and authors and publishers that lets the search engine scan books online and grant access to them for a fee. Deputy Assistant Attorney General William Cavanaugh said in a letter to U.S....]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/DOJ-Launches-Formal-Investigation-Into-Google-Book-Search-Settlement-259532/?kc=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:43:38 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Why-Facebook-Wants-to-Open-Your-Data-to-The-World-Wide-Web-174353/?kc=rss - Facebook July 1 ushered in new rules designed to make user privacy more fine grained and less confusing, but analysts and bloggers see the move as an effort to generate more advertising revenue and fend off feisty Twitter. The leading social network is collapsing several privacy pa...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Why-Facebook-Wants-to-Open-Your-Data-to-The-World-Wide-Web-174353/?kc=rss Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:34:52 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Dings-Google-Searches-Twitter-Tweets-378795/?kc=rss - Microsoft July 1 added the ability for users to search Twitter tweets with its Bing search engine, the company's latest attack on Google's search stronghold. The feature is real-time search, or the ability to locate data generated at a specific moment in time online. Microblog serv...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Dings-Google-Searches-Twitter-Tweets-378795/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:56:10 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Enjoys-June-Traffic-Burst-as-it-Seeks-to-Catch-Google-158538/?kc=rss - Buoyed by strong word of mouth and intensive marketing, Microsoft's Bing search engine gained 8.23 percent of U.S. Web searches in June, Web data researcher StatCounter said July 1. That's up from 7.86 percent in May and 7.21 percent in April, when Microsoft's search engine was kno...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Enjoys-June-Traffic-Burst-as-it-Seeks-to-Catch-Google-158538/?kc=rss Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:11:25 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Realtime-Search-Startups-That-Deliver-What-Google-Twitter-Facebook-Cant-763355/?kc=rss - ...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Realtime-Search-Startups-That-Deliver-What-Google-Twitter-Facebook-Cant-763355/?kc=rss Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:35:06 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-News-YouTube-Invite-News-Groups-to-Share-Video-Content-623681/?kc=rss - Web video consumption is a red-hot market, but only a handful of venues provide the hosting platform for content producers to share their content. Google June 28 paved the way for professional news organizations to share their video content online so that they can build a bigger a...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-News-YouTube-Invite-News-Groups-to-Share-Video-Content-623681/?kc=rss Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:23:32 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/When-Heavy-Web-Traffic-Hurts-MJ-Mourning-Crashes-Google-126929/?kc=rss - Crashes on the Web are common, but you don't often hear of crashes on Google's Web search engine, which reportedly has the infrastructure muscle of some 1 million servers worldwide powering searches for 65 percent of the world's Internet users. Yet that's exactly what happened June 25 afternoon...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/When-Heavy-Web-Traffic-Hurts-MJ-Mourning-Crashes-Google-126929/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:52:30 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Beats-Google-But-Users-Stay-Loyal-to-Google/?kc=rss - Microsoft's new Bing search engine beat Google in design and search results, but Google has fostered enough comfort and loyalty to retain users, according to a small study conducted by Web design firm Catalyst Group. See the study slides here. Eight out of 12 subjects who were regular Google us...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Bing-Beats-Google-But-Users-Stay-Loyal-to-Google/?kc=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:17:22 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-CEO-Schmidt-Says-Worst-of-the-Financial-Crisis-Is-Over-732576/?kc=rss - CANNES (Reuters) - A U.S. recovery is likely to begin this autumn, the worst of the crisis has passed and it is quot;reasonable to be optimistic for 2010, quot; Internet search giant Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt said on Friday. Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in south...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-CEO-Schmidt-Says-Worst-of-the-Financial-Crisis-Is-Over-732576/?kc=rss Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:21:56 -0400 http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/China-Slams-Google-Over-Web-Content-765634/?kc=rss - BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Thursday stepped up accusations that Google is spreading obscene content over the Internet, a day after U.S. officials urged Beijing to abandon plans for controversial filtering software on new computers. The growing friction over control of online content threaten...]]> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/China-Slams-Google-Over-Web-Content-765634/?kc=rss