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I'm often fascinated by mergers, or I should say I'm fascinated by how often they are attempted and how rarely they succeed. While it may appear that smaller mergers are more successful than larger ones, the reality is smaller merger failures are vastly easier to cover up. Very few mergers actually ...
Daniel Allen sees a problem faced by Web surfers: How to share long URLs with others and quickly locate favorite Web pages or documents without wading through lists of browser bookmarks? Allen and his wife, Mary Jane, are both self-taught programmers, among other professions. Their answer to the abo...
Search online for a particular type of image today, and the results will reflect more or less exclusively the text that's associated with them. A new technology presented by two Google researchers last week, however, promises to use visual cues in the images themselves to rank their relevance. In a ...
A handful of Google engineers has redesigned a set of video and image analysis tools to help find missing children and combat child pornography and abuse. Their effort is now being tested by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and it stems from anti-piracy software Google develop...
Having unwillingly ceded Web search leadership to Google, Yahoo is not about to also let the growing world of mobile services slip through its fingers. The Internet veteran chose the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show to announce a number of mobile initiatives, including a decision to open...
Google raised Web surfers' hackles after a seemingly simple change linking its Google Reader service with Google Talk. The move has raised concerns about privacy and highlighted the delicate balancing act that companies with vast stores of personal data have to perform as they try to improve their o...
Heavy e-mail users sometimes have trouble finding the needle of information they need in the haystacks of old missives lingering in their in-boxes. That's the sort of user IBM has targeted with its new OmniFind Personal E-Mail Search tool. Rolled out Thursday, IOPES is a free, semantics-based search...
Tech leaders representing Google, Wikipedia and the Center for Democracy and Technology testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, which is mulling reauthorization of the E-Government Act. Signed into law five years ago, it requires government agencies...
Hoping to add to its paltry market share in the Google-dominated world of Internet search, Ask.com has added a feature that, at the user's request, supposedly deletes records of their online activity. However, the feature might not deliver as much privacy as it seems. The new "AskEraser" is being to...
Yahoo revealed its top searches of 2007 on Monday, but rather than presenting another year dominated by Britney Spears, it focused instead on topic categories, taking the spotlight off overall leaders. Britney still leads the list of celebrity searches, to be sure, but Yahoo sliced and diced the dat...
A new startup company has created an online dating demo that conducts searches based on the facial features of desired celebrities and returns results showing potential mates that look like, for example, Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt. To use the demo, called "Eyealike," a user simply uploads a photo t...
Instead of asking a stranger for directions, lost drivers may soon be able to turn to Google Maps for help as they fill up their gas tanks. Google has teamed with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a commercial fueling supplier, to put Google Maps at the gas pump. "Getting directions at the pump is safer than us...
Microsoft is targeting the low end of the enterprise search market with the rollout of a free version of its Search Server 2008 Express. Given the price point -- as well as the emphasis on ease of use -- it is clear that the company is catering to SMBs, which have been somewhat overlooked by establi...
The explosive growth of pay-per-click search advertising has created an $8.2 billion industry led by Google, according to JupiterResearch. More than 60 percent of companies recently surveyed by JupiterResearch stated they intend to increase their spending on search advertising. This growth in sear...
Google is reportedly working on a platform to allow users to download the entire content of books in a format that they could read on their computers or maybe even mobile devices. Google officials confirm that the company is continuing to work on online access, but assert that they have not announce...
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