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Playing Hide and Seek in a Wired World August 05, 2009 
When I first started skip tracing -- that is, finding people -- my only tool was the telephone and my only resource for searching was directory assistance. Unbelievably, I was able to find people from London to Fiji, but it was costly and extremely time consuming. Half my search time was trying to be connected to directory assistance in a foreign country. Trust me -- 411 in the '90s was not cheap.
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Yahoo Goes DIY With Redesigned Homepage July 21, 2009 
Third-party applications and customization features take center stage on Yahoo's new homepage as the company rolled out the beta version of its redesign for U.S. users Tuesday. Actually, "center stage" isn't quite accurate; the long list of colorful icons for Facebook, MySpace, eBay and HotJobs, along with Yahoo's homegrown services like Mail and Messenger, can be found on left-hand side of the new home page.
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Yahoo Gives Serious Searchers a Bag of Note-Taking Tricks July 07, 2009 
Yahoo has rolled out a beta for a feature designed to meet an unfilled need in online search: automated note-taking. The new Search Pad feature in Yahoo Search automates note taking through a number of functions, such as saving recently visited links. It does not target the search engine user who's looking for a quick answer, said Yahoo's Tom Chi. Rather, it is aimed at people who are researching complex issues -- from a car purchase to a course of medical treatment.
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Bing Dips Toe Into Real-Time Search With Twitter Tie-In July 02, 2009 
Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results. So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld. Search results are tied directly to online ads.
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Google Hustles to Meet China's Porn-Blocking Demands June 19, 2009 
Google has stepped up its efforts to fight Internet pornography in China, following Beijing's move on Friday to block some Chinese-language results delivered by its search engine. "We are undertaking a thorough review of our service and taking all necessary steps to fix any problem with our results," said Google spokesperson Scott Rubin.
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Playing a Hunch: Social Decision-Making Site Carves Out New Niche in Search June 15, 2009 
Hunch, a new Web service open to the public Monday, is meant to help people make decisions on hundreds of topics -- such as what kind of camera to buy or where to go on vacation. Its founders say they expect it to get better and better at pairing users with highly accurate custom answers on thousands of topics, many of them user-contributed.
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Yahoo's Hadoop to Run Free in the Wild June 12, 2009 
Although it's struggling against both giant rivals like Google and smaller ones like Microsoft's new search venture Bing, Yahoo is handing over the source code for its version of Hadoop to the community. Hadoop, a top-level Apache project, is an open source distributed file system and parallel execution environment that lets its users process massive amounts of data.
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First Impressions: Blah-da Bing June 01, 2009 
Like many others, I was salivating at the thought of getting my hands on a new, faster search engine, and so I was impatiently waiting for Wednesday when Microsoft was scheduled to unleash Bing on the world. When it made Bing available on Monday instead, I leaped on the application and began running searches on the Web with little cries of joy.
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Microsoft Goes Bing, Palm's Pwned June 01, 2009 
Last week, Microsoft announced its new search push at Google -- and unlike Live Search, which was a joke, Bing looks to have the right stuff. The question is, can Microsoft get people to move? Palm initially looked as though it was going to get iPhone users to move, but that hope started to sputter last week.
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Can a Semantic Kumo Wrestle Google to the Mat? May 21, 2009 
In about two weeks, Microsoft is expected to launch Kumo, its sort of old, sort of new search engine. Microsoft regards Kumo as its Google killer, according to tech analyst Rob Enderle, and the software company is banking heavily on it despite deep internal divisions over the project.
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Will Kumo Find Google's Search Soft Spots? May 20, 2009 
It's difficult to imagine Google -- the market maker and breaker of all things online-search related -- ever being dislodged from its perch as king of the hill. If there were a company that could do so, it would most likely be another market maker -- say, Microsoft.
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Wolfram|Alpha Launch Sparks Cheers, Curiosity, Confusion May 18, 2009 
For the past few weeks, the arrival of the new search engine Wolfram|Alpha was hyped as the next stage of search engine technology -- a "Google-killer," a new way to ask the Internet a direct question. So naturally, a few enterprising technology writers and bloggers wanted answers to some very specific queries when the Web site finally went live over the weekend.
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Google Labs Cooks Up New Recipes for Web Wandering May 13, 2009 
Google launched on Tuesday a series of new search features that let users integrate options for displaying and analyzing their search results beyond the traditional listing of keyword hits ranked by assumed relevance. The new services are part of a platform of additional features Google is developing and will make live in the future, though it offered no set timetable.
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Number-Crunching Search Engine WolframAlpha Preps for Launch May 12, 2009 
A new search service that brings a measure of artificial intelligence to traditional Internet searching is set to go public soon. Wolfram|Alpha has been anticipated for several months, and recently drew attention when a small number of testers were given access to it.
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The Wide Open World of Web Site Search April 29, 2009 
Other site search solutions may have looked like diminutive Davids when they first appeared next to Goliaths Google and Yahoo, but many of the smaller tools offer special functionality the giants don't have. Like the big guys, however, smaller solution providers know that prospective buyers are attracted by the word "free."
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Google Mobilizes Product Search for iPhone, Android Users April 24, 2009 
Google has rolled out a mobile-friendly version of its Product Search feature for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Google Product Search is a search engine that works much as the name indicates: Users type in keywords relevant to what they're seeking and the feature delivers likely prospects from various shopping sites, along with product reviews and ratings.
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