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• Microsoft introduces a search tool for all its search tools
  Wednesday 17 May 2006 – 11:58
  At the 10th annual CEO Summit today, Microsoft co-president Kevin Johnson announced the introduction of an enterprise-level tool called Windows Live Search, that will eventually integrate the search facilities of other applications and Web services. If that name sounds familiar, it should be. It's the same as another Microsoft product, whose services this new one will actually be using.
• Ask.com overhauls search engine
  Wednesday 6 June 2007 – 11:24
  Still clinging to life in the search engine arena, Ask.com today unveiled a new slate of visual and functional updates to its search platform
• New search engine indexes and ranks table content
  Friday 10 August 2007 – 10:12 in Business
  A new search engine announced by Penn State researchers is focusing on content that is published in tables, table titles, references and footnotes. According to the developers, "TableSeer" is the first scholar-targeted search engine that allows users to
• New service scans search results for viruses, spyware
  Monday 22 May 2006 – 10:53
  If you are uncertain about the content of some of the websites you come across through search engine queries, then there is a new service that scans those web pages for potentially dangerous content such as viruses and spyware, but also for nudity, hate and discrimination and illegal activities.
• Start-up promises search for IM
  Tuesday 30 May 2006 – 09:54
  Search can be put into instant messaging, says start-up Kozoru, as long as you eliminate a lot of the excess stuff
• Google expands lead in search engine market, again
  Tuesday 21 November 2006 – 07:52
  Internet ranking company Comscore Networks today released its monthly rankings of search engines for October. There was little change over last month, though the biggest percentage point increase went to Google.
• Google still dominates search experience, Yahoo catching up - study
  Thursday 19 January 2006 – 08:06
  Google features and performance allow the search engine to remain the favorite search engine of Internet users, Keynote Systems reports. The analysis firm, which is known mainly for measuring the responsiveness of websites, draws this conclusion from a two-week survey and study that included 2000 users.
• Meta search engine sold for $101,000 on eBay
  Friday 28 October 2005 – 10:47
  Remember Jux2, the award winning meta search engine which was jetisoned by its owners who are focusing on other projects, then relaunched just in time for a listing on eBay auctions? Well the Jux2 meta search engine was just sold on eBay for a bid of $101,000.
• Activist group recommends more control over search privacy
  Friday 10 August 2007 – 10:21 in Business
  Washington (DC) - Public policy organization The Center For Democracy & Technology (CDT) has released a report calling for an overhaul of search engine privacy policies. Once a completely non-glamorous tool for finding content on the Internet, search eng
• Next Windows Search to have PC-to-PC search, increased speed
  Monday 31 March 2008 – 05:50 in Consumer Electronics
  Microsoft has posted a handful of details about the new version of Windows Search, allowing users more control over finding documents and programs hidden in their hard drive.
• Yahoo pokes new improvements into search
  Wednesday 3 October 2007 – 10:16 in Business
  Sunnyvale (CA) - Following a sweeping upgrade at Ask.com and recent enhancements at MSN Search, Yahoo has unveiled a new set of search improvements. As part of the updates to Yahoo, users will now receive real-time suggestions as they enter search terms, ...
• Facebook to allow non-members to search for people
  Monday 10 September 2007 – 09:29 in Networking
  Palo Alto (CA) - Facebook is raising privacy concerns again as it plans to begin letting anonymous browsers search for people in a community originally safeguarded by a users-only search policy. "We’re expanding search so that people can see which of th
• Amazon's A9 search drops block view & yellow pages
  Wednesday 4 October 2006 – 10:47
  Amazon-owned A9 never had much consumer usage but it was one of the most innovative and interesting search engines, with many distinctive features.
• Microsoft looks to "third dimension" to improve search results
  Monday 7 August 2006 – 08:12
  At a presentation at the 2006 SIGIR conference, Microsoft scientists said that new and additional techniques for analyzing search click-through patterns and browsing behaviors can enhance the search results delivered by a search engine.
• Microsoft offers more tools for search engine
  Friday 10 March 2006 – 02:34
  Microsoft is trying to tackle its declining share in the search-engine market by introducing new tools it says will make Web searching easier and more efficient.