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Serious search engine technology developed by IBM "Search is trying to find the best page on a topic. WebFountain wants to find the trend," said Dan Gruhl, chief architect of the project at IBM's Almaden Research Center in South San Jose, Calif. Harnessing the Internet's data to find meaning is a visionary ideal of Web search that has yet to be attained. As more companies manage their businesses

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Web services management gaining in popularity There is much confusion on the issue of Web services management, because the term "management" has often been used in the past to mean many different things. Two examples: business process management, the active coordination and execution of business processes; and systems management, the passive monitoring of performance and IT infrastructure).

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Making Google better Pandia and Resource Shelf editor Gary Price write 10 tips on how Google could improve itself: "Google is a fine product and has done good things for web search. However, it's not the solution". Here are 10 things it could do to improve itself: 1) Google needs to fix several advanced search problems. Many of them have been known for several months. These are things that

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Market for paid inclusion search to reach $6 billion Innovation among companies hots up as ad pie swells. With experts projecting that the global market for paid Internet searches will reach more than US$6 billion (S$10 billion) by 2006, up from about US$2 billion last year, search engine companies are gearing up to duke it out for a chunk of the advertising pie. Mr Sterling, program director

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The latest on update Austin at Google Some of the websites that haven’t been hit too hard in Google’s Florida update (November 2003) got hit real hard on or around January 23. Google’s latest update is called Austin, and they are beginning to ‘sound’ like elections! Depending on the industry you happen to be in, you could have been hit less, or harder- it depends on a whole number of factors

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Google's competition preparing for battle Google's dominant position under threat as rivals develop competing technology. Ask Jeeves, the internet search engine, has come up with the best answer of all. Constantly asked by sceptics whether it would ever make money, the PG Wodehouse inspired business based in Emeryville, California, produced the clearest result this week. Steve Berkowitz, the

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A second office in Europe to be opened by Google The US-based Internet search specialist Google will soon open a research and development centre in Switzerland to tap into European knowhow, company vice-president Urs Hoelzle said. The European centre will be Google's second base outside the United States. A similar research and development centre in India is due to open in March. "Zurich must

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The 10 Do's and Don'ts of SEO Here's something that is fast to read and does the job! Rank for $ales is pleased to present "The 10 do's and don'ts of SEO". Five techniques you should always do to push your site at the top of the search engine results pages (SERP's) and keep it there, and five things which you should always avoid doing, to protect your site from a possible penalty or risk it from

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Microsoft will have its own toolbar Microsoft today will introduce a new Web search feature as the software maker plays catch-up with Google, in a critical area of Internet commerce, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. Microsoft will begin offering customers of its MSN online service a software " toolbar" for Internet browsers that has a window for searching the Web using keywords and

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Orkut, or how to make it big in social networking Google will shortly unveil its social networking site, Orkut. The Friendster clone is the work of Google employee and former Stanford graduate Orkut Buyukkokten. Undettered by the feeding frenzy around the social networking bubble, and rebuffed by Friendster Inc, which it attempted to buy, Google has decided build one better. Given Friendster's

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Google bombing is turning the Web into a platform for political commentary The New York Times reports: Unlike Web politicking by other means, like hacking into sites to deface or alter their message, Google bombing is a group sport, taking advantage of the Web-indexing innovation that led Google to search-engine supremacy. The perpetrators succeed by recruiting a small group of accomplices to

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Booble: An adult search engine parodying Google "Booble" is a new adult Website parodying Google and has hit the Net running, allowing Net surfers with a thing for porn to filter over six thousand hand-selected adult Internet content listings. Booble is said to be the brainchild of a former Net executive, whose identity isn't yet known but who is based in New York and is putting his own money

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Marketers investing more in Web marketing Nearly two thirds of marketers now see digital marketing as having a very high or high level of strategic importance within their organizations, and over 75 percent of respondents plan to increase spending on digital marketing as a percentage of their marketing budget this year, according to a survey of marketing executives released today. The online

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Looksmart being dropped by MSN Although the LookSmart database does include listings from the volunteer based Zeal directory, most of the results are now pay-per-click text ads. Microsoft's MSN.com portal has for a long time added LookSmart's directory listings to its search engine results. Obviously someone at MSN realized that the LookSmart results reduced the quality of the overall search

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Google always facing more and more competition on its turf Google Inc., which dominates the market for Web search, is developing a service that could dramatically extend the reach of its lucrative keyword-based advertising by linking such ads to e-mail, people familiar with the matter said Friday. Privately held Google, which is expected to go public later this year, faces rising competition in

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Legal case jeopardizes search engines' use of trademarks Playboy Enterprises will have its day in court over accusations that search engines sold its trademark as advertising without permission. Dealing a potential setback to the Web search advertising market, a federal appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging the unauthorised use of trademarks in ads linked to search-engine keywords.

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There are billions and billions of Web pages out there As Carl Sagan might have put it, there are billions and billions of Web pages out there. So it comes as no surprise that the results lists from search sites are getting longer. That's given rise to a new breed of solutions to help manage the information overload. One of the most ambitious recent entries is a major update of Groxis' Grokker,

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Yahoo confirms that it is dropping Google Yahoo on Wednesday said it will drop search partner Google during the first quarter of 2004 in favor of its own technology, opening a new phase in the battle for Web search dominance. The announcement from Yahoo CEO Terry Semel caps more than a year of speculation over the move, which has been widely expected since Yahoo announced plans to acquire

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Reasons why e-Commerce shoppers abandon carts Still puzzled as to why e-Commerce shoppers abandon their shopping carts without buying anything on your site, as they move on to your competitor's site? NetIQ’s WebTrends reports that 35% of US adults who have researched or purchased a product online say that surprise costs would lead them to abandon a purchase online. Another 30% say they would

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Verisign will manage RFID 'root' server VeriSign Inc. has been awarded a contract to manage a key component of a coming global distribution network that uses electronic product code (EPC) technology, according to a joint announcement by VeriSign and EPCglobal Inc., a non-profit organization. The contract, for an undisclosed amount, assigns VeriSign the job of designing and operating the Object

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VeriSign planning more changes to the DNS system VeriSign Inc. is planning changes to a Domain Name System (DNS) component responsible for coordinating updates to the .com and .net domains throughout the DNS system, according to a company spokesperson. The changes are intended to prepare .com and .net for more frequent daily updates of information such as new subdomains, address changes and the

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Google and your park domains Google DomainPark allows domain name registrars and large domain name holders to unlock the value in their parked page inventory. DomainPark delivers targeted, conceptually related keywords and advertisements to parked domain name pages by using Google's semantic technology to "understand" the meaning of each domain name. DomainPark currently powers over 1 million

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Yahoo & Google trying to outdo each other Yahoo and Google are offering new search tricks for Web surfers, with the ongoing goal of becoming indispensable. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo on Friday started offering visitors the ability to search for flight information directly from the search box, matching a similarly new capability from rival Google's search engine. Google, in turn, embedded a

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