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Ask.com makes improvements

Ask.com has, in the past, come up with search innovations, but it has done little to help the company's business. It remains in fourth place in a market dominated by Google. But Ask.com is not giving... Read more...

Track your competitors online

Maybe it's part of your job description, or maybe not. CIOs certainly have a lot on their plate, but a little business intelligence advice to the boss using today's technology may not hurt.... Read more...

Site owners complain about new search engine Cuil

Barely more than a month after the launch of "Google Killer" Cuil, site owners are saying that its Twiceler indexing bot is causing mayhem on their sites with its overzealous indexing. One user even... Read more...

New search engine rises to challenge Google

If you haven't heard by now, super-stealth search start-up Cuil launched earlier this week with a search engine that it claims produces better search result than... Read more...

Yahoo goes with Google

Hours after saying that talks over a possible tie-up with Microsoft has ended, Yahoo announced a deal in which some of Google's advertisements will appear alongside search results from Yahoo's own... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Google buys FeedBurner; Dell to offer virtualization services;

> Dell to Offer Virtualization Services. Article > Open-Source Gets a Search Engine. Read more...

Editor's Corner

The advancement of new technology, and the commitment from vendors to push the envelope, never ceases to amaze me. I'm not naive, vendors make money on better tools and systems, but when they move... Read more...

Google comes in handy for security research

A security firm is using a popular search engine and some homemade tools for ferreting out malicious Web sites. It seems that since Google indexes executable files and binary files on sites,... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: IBM transistor 100X faster than today's chip; Lack of skilled technologists concerns UK leaders; and much more...

>IBM transistor 100 times faster than today's chip. Article >Dearth of skilled technologists has U.K. tech... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Exec's exit complicates Windows Live marketing effort; Tech titans push for personal data privacy law; and much mor

> Microsoft exec's exit puts kink in Windows Live marketing effort. Article > Tech titans push... Read more...