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Back in 2008 it seemed we couldn’t do anything about hearing something about Microsoft buying up Yahoo.  The deal never worked, possibly because of then Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang who seemed to dislike the idea.  But, Yahoo now has a new CEO, Carol Bartz, and it seems she might be… Continue Reading »

Google made some changes its search results.  You can search for something like “restaurant” in a standard Google search and you will get local results.  You don’t have to include a location because Google figures it out via your IP address.  If Google gets it wrong, you can just hit… Continue Reading »

During my time hanging out in the Palm Lounge, I also took a minute, and shot a quick video demonstrating the simplicity of searching on the Palm pre.  When you are on the desktop (the wallpaper screen) you can just begin to type a phrase or word using the keyboard,… Continue Reading »

Normally, you could search for shows on a TiVo, but it was far from elegant.  Today, January 7, 2009, TiVo announced its upgraded TiVo Search that should allow for users to still get search results, but also discover content.  Content suggestions are pulled from television listings and also from the… Continue Reading »

The massive Chinese search engine Baidu is in trouble after state media uncovered that unlicensed medical services are buying good positions on the page through their P4P (pay-for-performance) scheme.  This is a problem as more people then click through to their website and the pay for very expensive and totally… Continue Reading »

Another day, another new product or feature from Google.  Well, at least it seems that way sometimes.  Usually, there isn’t much added to the search function of Google, the updates tend to be to Gmail, Maps, or new products.  This time its different, Google has actually found a way to… Continue Reading »

Earlier this week we heard the news of Jerry Yang resigning as CEO of Yahoo, the result of a painfully disappointing year for the company that saw failure after failure.  They have watched their grip on Internet search slip through their fingers and they are in danger of slipping into… Continue Reading »

Google has announced a new technology that allows its popular search engine to index scanned documents.  It uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert a document saved as a PDF from an image to words.  Previously the images of text were quite difficult to find via a search because the… Continue Reading »

When Google started its Google Book Search Service a few years ago, it annoyed a number of people.  Those people included “the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and a handful of authors and publishers.”  On Tuesday the groups involved reached an agreement, and have submitted it to the… Continue Reading »

Do you remember a couple of years ago when Gotuit came out with “SceneMaker?”  It was all new and amazing back then.  It let people take videos from platforms like YouTube, and then cut scenes from it, and tag them with metadata and stick it on a Gotuit (and eventually… Continue Reading »