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Yahoo holds Open Hack Day in India Yahoo Inc. held Open Hack Day October 5 and 6 in Bangalore, India, in a bid to build an ecosystem of external developers familiar with the company's technologies. MSNBC buys participatory news site Newsvine MSNBC Interactive News has acquired Newsvine, operator of a Web site that encourages users to link to their favorite news of the day, submit comments, and write their own stories. October 8, 4:44 a.m. PDT Yahoo sharpens precision of search terms The latest version of Yahoo's search engine senses when people are trying to find the right keywords and offers suggestions, an improvement the company says reduces "search fatigue." October 2, 9:02 a.m. PDT Google picks ex-IBMer to lead expansion in Europe Google has appointed a top IBM researcher to lead the expansion of its engineering group in Europe, the search company announced Thursday. September 27, 5:14 a.m. PDT Microsoft plays Live Search to its base of current users Microsoft thinks its Live Search can match Google in some areas now, but the company has been the underdog in search for so long it's not even trying to lure users away from its rival -- at least not yet. September 27, 3:49 a.m. PDT Critical vulnerability found in Ask.com toolbar for IE A vulnerability in Ask.com's toolbar for Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to take control of a person's computer, according to security advisories. September 25, 8:36 a.m. PDT Pirate Bay strikes back at media content companies Swedish police are expected to decide later this week whether a criminal case is warranted against 10 major music and movie companies over their alleged efforts to disrupt the Pirate Bay, one of the largest file-sharing search engines. September 25, 5:19 a.m. PDT Microsoft launches campaign against Google-DoubleClick Microsoft has teamed with public relations and marketing agency Burson-Marsteller on a campaign to garner industry support for asking regulators to scrutinize and potentially block the proposed merger of Google and DoubleClick. September 24, 12:17 p.m. PDT Google tests interactive Gadget ads service Google is testing a new advertising format that it hopes will make people spend more time looking at ads online, and even embed them in their own Web sites. September 19, 4:05 a.m. PDT Powerset seeks help online for natural-language search engine Powerset, a startup building a search engine that understands ideas rather than just words, has opened an online lab to tap into the brainpower of a limited number of humans. September 18, 7:17 a.m. PDT Baidu stretches lead over Google in Chinese search market A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China's top cities, while rival Google lost ground despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations. September 18, 6:53 a.m. PDT Sprint, Microsoft team up on location-based mobile search Starting on Tuesday, when Sprint Nextel customers use the search bar in their phone browsers, the results will automatically incorporate the users' location. Some customers will also be able to use voice commands to conduct searches. September 18, 4:52 a.m. PDT Google calls for global online privacy standard Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy to address growing concerns over how personal data is handled across the Internet. September 14, 6:12 a.m. PDT Google pledges $30 million for private moon landing Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because "it's cool," the company said on its blog. September 14, 3:24 a.m. PDT Microsoft details Vista SP1 search changes Microsoft released documents on Wednesday that detail changes it will make to its desktop search and indexing feature in Windows Vista that will be included as part of the Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) update. September 12, 3:16 p.m. PDT Yahoo scores social networking online ad win Yahoo will sell display advertising for Bebo, the first such deal Yahoo has secured with a social networking site, the companies said on Wednesday. September 12, 5:13 a.m. PDT Adam Bosworth leaves Google Google has lost the services of Adam Bosworth, a vice president of engineering who was in charge of the company's Google Health project, focused on helping people research medicines, illnesses, treatments and related healthcare topics. September 11, 2:59 p.m. PDT Google to boost universal search effort Google will become more aggressive with its universal search effort, making a bolder push to blend a variety of Web links into a single results list. September 6, 2:27 p.m. PDT Report: Google, Amazon plan e-book moves Google and Amazon.com are planning moves in the electronic-book market which, despite much promise over the years, hasn't met the expectations of book lovers, The New York Times reported Thursday. September 6, 8:38 a.m. PDT Google exec touts universal search model Google's recently introduced universal search model represents a major change for the company, a Google official said at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose on Thursday.  August 22, 2:22 p.m. PDT Google Earth gets starry-eyed Google may just be the center of the universe now: A new add-on for its Earth satellite program, called Sky, lets users explore space and see photos of the precise star formation overhead based on their locale. August 22, 5:13 a.m. PDT Ask.com CEO: Search technology prominence grows Search technology is becoming a central tool in everyday life, said Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 conference in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday. August 21, 12:20 p.m. PDT Google offers refunds for irked video customers Google has apologized for the way it shut down its video sales and rental service last week, leaving people unable to play videos they had paid for, and said it will refund their credit cards and allow them to watch their films for another six months. August 21, 5:19 a.m. PDT Google offers local language support in India Google has introduced technologies that will allow people in India to use local languages in search queries and that will generate content in local languages. August 20, 6:32 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Wikia CEO on lunacy, air miles, and being profitless Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia, showed up for a recent interview in a brown T-shirt that said "Wikia" in yellow letters on the front, and "Lunatic" on the back. August 17, 5:43 a.m. PDT Report: Google to acquire, invest in more Chinese companies Google reportedly plans to acquire one or two Chinese companies and invest in up to five more over the next year as part of efforts to gain ground on rival Baidu.com in China. August 16, 4:48 a.m. PDT Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia Google and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia, they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors. August 10, 4:44 a.m. PDT Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it Readers of Google's Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company. August 8, 1:22 p.m. PDT Wikipedia: Baidu may be worst copyright violator Baidu.com, which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, may be the worst violator of Wikipedia copyrights, the chair of the foundation behind popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia said Sunday, as she asked the company again to give credit where credit is due. August 6, 6:49 a.m. PDT Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years. August 6, 4:38 a.m. PDT Microsoft forms search center to keep up with Google Microsoft is developing a new research group intended to quickly develop new search and advertising technologies and rapidly deliver them to advertisers and customers. July 30, 9:28 a.m. PDT Update: Wikia search engine gains a Web crawler Wikia's project to develop an open source search engine got another boost with its acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday. July 27, 11:22 a.m. PDT Search company Baidu expects growth rate to slow Baidu.com, which operates China's most popular Internet search engine, said its second-quarter revenue and profit more than doubled compared to the same period last year, but the company's growth rate shows signs of slowing down. July 26, 8:36 a.m. PDT SAP, Siemens hope for German Web 3.0 project help German high-tech heavyweights SAP and Siemens are among the companies that hope to benefit from a government-funded program to develop new semantic Web technologies. July 25, 11:34 a.m. PDT Google finds R&D opportunities, pitfalls abroad Kannan Pashupathy, the director of Google's international engineering operations, oversees the company's growing network of international R&D centers. July 23, 8:15 a.m. PDT Sub photo could help sink Google in China A photo that purports to confirm the existence of a new class of Chinese ballistic missile submarine could torpedo Google's aspirations in the world's second-largest Internet market. July 23, 6:34 a.m. PDT Schmidt: Google will do better in China Google will do better in China, but don't look for the company to dominate the market anytime soon, the company's top executive said Thursday. July 20, 7:13 a.m. PDT Google testing new homepage design in Taiwan, Hong Kong Google is testing a new homepage design in Taiwan and Hong Kong that takes advantage of faster broadband speeds in those markets, one of the company's founders said Thursday. July 20, 6:47 a.m. PDT Mayer: Translation, universal search in Google's future Universal search and automated translation are big parts of Google's future, a company executive said Friday in Beijing. July 20, 6:03 a.m. PDT Ask.com to let users scrub search records Search portal Ask.com plans to make it easier for Web searchers to cover their tracks. The company is introducing a new feature to its Web portal later this year called AskEraser, which will let users perform anonymous searches. July 20, 4:26 a.m. PDT Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines Google's chief legal officer was fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday over accounting issues arising from when he was chief financial officer (CFO) at former company. July 20, 4:14 a.m. PDT Update: Google Q2 earnings continue to climb Google's revenue continued to climb in the second quarter with the company reporting revenue of $3.87 billion, up 58 percent compared to the same quarter last year. July 19, 2:28 p.m. PDT Google extends newspaper print-ads service Google has expanded its Print Ads so that anyone subscribing to its AdWords program can purchase print advertising from a growing network of newspapers. July 18, 10:37 a.m. PDT Update: Yahoo Q2 net income down Yahoo's net income fell year-over-year in a quarter that saw Yahoo leadership change hands amid criticism that the company failed to capitalize on the explosive growth of the search-engine advertising market. July 17, 2:21 p.m. PDT Ask.com ad keyword purchases added to Office Live Microsoft has added the ability for subscribers of its Office Live small-business hosted service to purchase paid-search advertising from Ask.com from directly within the service. July 17, 12:23 p.m. PDT Google offers Custom Search Business Edition for SMBs Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page. July 17, 4:46 a.m. PDT What search engines store about you What if there were a giant database that contained your hidden insecurities, embarrassing medical questions, and the fact that you still think from time to time about your high-school girlfriend? Well, such a data store does exist -- if you've ever plugged such private topics into a search engine. July 16, 3:00 a.m. PDT Maplets let users customize Google Maps Google introduced a feature to its mapping service on Wednesday that allows people to create their own customized maps, by adding information such as the location of cheap gas stations or property for sale. July 11, 6:31 a.m. PDT Microsoft: Search wins tied to sales compensation Microsoft is emphasizing areas of its business where it needs to catch up to competitors by tying partner team compensation to specific product deployments, such as enterprise search, a top executive said Tuesday. July 10, 11:05 a.m. PDT Update: Google to buy Postini for $625 million Google has agreed to buy messaging security company Postini for $625 million, a move intended to increase the appeal of Google's hosted software applications among big businesses, the companies announced Monday. July 9, 9:05 a.m. PDT Google trails in Asian markets Google's dominance may seem unassailable in North America, but it's the search giant that is playing catch-up in Asia, according to new survey results released Sunday. July 9, 7:10 a.m. PDT Euro consumer group questions Google-Doubleclick deal A European consumer group has complained that Google's proposed acquisition of online ad broker DoubleClick could hurt privacy rights due to the massive amount of data the companies would hold. July 5, 4:33 a.m. PDT Google targets nonprofits with Outreach program Google introduced a program on Tuesday to help nonprofit organizations use its Google Earth satellite mapping program to build Web-based applications that illustrate their mission and advocate their work. June 26, 11:00 a.m. PDT Google threatens to drop Gmail in Germany Google is unhappy with proposed German legislation to ban anonymous e-mail accounts and may consider dropping the German version of its Gmail service. June 26, 5:27 a.m. PDT Google pushes court on Microsoft search Google escalated its antitrust battle with Microsoft Monday by questioning its rival's promised changes to Windows Vista search and asking a federal judge to extend oversight to make sure Microsoft follows through. June 25, 4:49 p.m. PDT Yahoo reorganizes sales One week after Yahoo named co-founder Jerry Yang as CEO, the company promoted David Karnstedt to head of North American sales, continuing a company restructuring that began in December 2006. June 25, 4:31 a.m. PDT EU data protection group questions other search engines European data protection officials are expanding their examination of the impact search engines have on privacy, after initially targeting Google Inc. last month, European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx said in an interview late Wednesday. June 21, 9:31 a.m. PDT Xerox tool analyzes text to improve search results Xerox researchers have developed a search tool that tries to understand documents, rather than looking for keywords, in order to provide better results. June 20, 10:46 a.m. PDT Yahoo: Operators have nothing to fear Yahoo is seeking to reassure carriers that it isn't trying to cut them out of the loop with its mobile content services, even as it rolls out new mobile services for customers. June 20, 4:56 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft to change Vista desktop search Microsoft will make changes to its desktop search program following a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by Google. June 19, 11:11 p.m. PDT Google to open new data center in Iowa Google is spending $600 million on a new data center in Iowa. June 19, 4:14 p.m. PDT Google's back-up plan: The enterprise It's hard to imagine the online ad market cooling off, but when it eventually does, companies that make their living from it would do well to have a back-up plan. June 19, 12:00 p.m. PDT Safari for Windows: All about the money? The debate is still on about why Apple Inc. decided to develop a version of its Safari browser for Windows. June 16, 11:36 a.m. PDT Google may launch YouTube for Europe Google is gathering some of its top executives in Paris next week for an international press conference, and speculation is rife that announcements will include a local version of YouTube for European countries. June 15, 8:48 a.m. PDT Google to build R&D center in Shanghai Google will open a research and development center in Shanghai, stepping up its effort to build a bigger search business in China. June 15, 4:33 a.m. PDT Google bends privacy policy to EU concerns Google Inc. will make the data it stores about end users anonymous in its server logs after 18 months, part of an effort to deflate concerns about privacy raised last month by a European Union working group. June 12, 6:31 a.m. PDT Google hostile to privacy, group says When it comes to protecting the privacy of its users, Google ranks worse than any other Internet company, according to an interim report by Privacy International. The international watchdog group also accused Google of engaging in a smear campaign in response to its findings and demanded an apology. June 10, 8:37 p.m. PDT Reports: Google weighs Microsoft antitrust fight Google may be seeking a reopening of state and federal government antitrust action against Microsoft, but a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official has recommended against it, newspaper reports indicated Sunday. June 10, 8:28 p.m. PDT Baidu denies plans for European expansion Baidu.com on Friday said its not planning to expand into Europe, following reports that China's largest search engine would announce such plans later this month. June 8, 4:32 a.m. PDT Search optimizers turn to social sites Web 2.0 has come to search engine optimization. Or rather, search engine optimizers have discovered Web 2.0. June 5, 2:38 p.m. PDT Microsoft search head denies new project Word that Microsoft had a crack team of developers in Silicon Valley working on a cutting-edge search project is news to the company's head of search and advertising. June 5, 11:10 a.m. PDT Ask.com revamps search engine Ask.com is making another major attempt to attract more people to its search engine, as its years-long, unsuccessful struggle to boost its usage market share continues. June 5, 7:51 a.m. PDT Humans get bigger role in search Just a few days after the introduction of a search engine that works primarily using human labor, Google says, "Me too." June 4, 12:44 p.m. PDT Report: Baidu to announce European expansion plans Baidu.com, China's most popular search engine, reportedly plans to announce details of a European expansion later this month. June 4, 5:02 a.m. PDT Google's Book Search available in publisher sites Google is making its controversial Book Search engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites. June 1, 3:48 p.m. PDT A search engine for open source code Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open source developers, partnering with key Web sites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers. June 1, 2:39 p.m. PDT Microsoft adds copyrighted works to book search engine Microsoft will expand its books search engine by including copyrighted works in its index for the first time starting Thursday evening. June 1, 4:52 a.m. PDT Developer Day shows Google's software side Google Inc. is hosting events for software developers in 10 cities around the world on Thursday, promoting the use of its tools and services to build Web-based applications. May 31, 10:35 a.m. PDT Google, Salesforce.com to announce deal Google and Salesforce.com will announce a partnership on Tuesday, a source close to the company in Europe said Thursday. May 31, 7:44 a.m. PDT Google digs in against malware Google's acquisition of security company GreenBorder Technologies is a sign the search giant wants to bolster confidence in its browser-delivered applications amid growing threats from malicious software on the Internet. May 30, 10:16 a.m. PDT Google goes for a new look on Korean site Google is trying out a new look on its South Korean Web site that goes further from the company's famously clean design than anything tried before. May 30, 5:44 a.m. PDT Schmidt: Internet is a powerful force for democracy Speaking at a conference in South Korea, Eric Schmidt, the chairman and CEO of Google, ducked the question of whether his company's dominance of Internet search may ultimately distort democratic gains from improved information access. But he promised governments will be held to account more than ever before. May 30, 5:03 a.m. PDT ConnectBeam: Social bookmarks behind the firewall ConnectBeam founder and CEO Puneet Gupta admits that social networking hasn't gotten much traction in the enterprise. But he also believes that the practice of social bookmarking -- as powered by his one-and-a-half-year-old company -- could change all that. May 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Euro data protection chief backs Google Data protection officials from 27 European countries have warned Google it is storing data on people's searches for too long -- but Europe's top privacy guardian, the European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx, believes Google's efforts to respect the privacy of European citizens in its Internet search software "is not just window dressing." May 25, 7:29 a.m. PDT Google stands firm behind News search site One of Google's most popular, older, and controversial services, Google News, is the article aggregation and search site that media companies love to hate because it has become a major source of Web traffic and frustrations for many of them. May 23, 9:25 a.m. PDT Google launches top daily searches as 'Hot Trends' Google Tuesday launched HotTrends, a new feature on the Google Trends report that lets users see a list of the current top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries in the U.S, the search company said. Users can also select to see what the top searches were on a specific day. May 22, 12:29 p.m. PDT Report: Google, Salesforce.com discussing alliance Google and Salesforce.com are discussing an alliance that could see the two bundle Web-based applications, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. May 21, 4:27 a.m. PDT Google Korea to censor search results Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday. May 17, 5:29 a.m. PDT Google moves to 'universal' search Google will make a significant push toward integrating results from a variety of its search engines in an attempt to deliver as relevant and comprehensive a result set as possible to search queries. May 16, 1:32 p.m. PDT Yahoo remakes mapping site Yahoo has moved its online mapping service to a new platform that the company said makes the Web site faster and more accurate. May 16, 4:23 a.m. PDT Riya: New eyes on search Riya is a search engine company with a business model based on the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. May 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google links to Belgian newspaper content again Google is including links again to some of Belgium's most popular French- and German-language newspapers, although their copyright lawsuit against the U.S. search company remains pending. May 3, 6:25 a.m. PDT Google opens Singapore office Google formally opened an office in Singapore on Thursday, a long anticipated move that signals the company has its eyes on Southeast Asia. May 3, 6:13 a.m. PDT Update: Citysearch adds video in redesign IAC/InterActiveCorp's Citysearch has gotten its first major update in three years, as this online guide for local entertainment and businesses debuts videos on its site, latching on to one of the hottest trends on the Internet today. May 2, 9:19 a.m. PDT Google urges shareholders to permit censorship Google's board of directors has recommended shareholders next week vote down a proposal that would require the company to legally resist government censorship efforts and to notify users when the company is required by governments to censor search results. May 2, 8:46 a.m. PDT Innovation, startups hot again in the enterprise Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to paraphrase Ronald Regan, "It's morning again for enterprise startups." May 1, 7:00 a.m. PDT Search Wikia hires Jabber founder, expands concept Jabber creator Jeremie Miller is joining Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, in building an open-source, community-driven search service. 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