Site went offline for about 45 minutes Users of Amazon.com were not able to access the online retailing website on Monday afternoon as the site experienced a brief outage, making it the latest one after Google. During the outage, ...
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Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. The list includes AltaVista, the granddaddy of search engines, and ...
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Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site. The new tools constitute yet another expansion to the Microsoft search site to make it ...
Twitter will soon give developers the ability to filter messages by popularity and language. The company said in a blog posting Wednesday that it will add two new fields to the public metadata it associates with messages on its service, ...
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Google has launched a competition that will let a US student "doodle" his or her way to cash for college along with landing grant money to fund technology education at their grade school. The California-based Internet titan announced its ...
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Amid further signs that the EU's two-year investigation into Google is coming to a head, EC competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the internet giant will be forced to change the way it presents its search results if it wants to ...
IDG News Service - Google has quietly shut down a search function that helped users in China navigate past the country's censorship systems, after authorities had tried to block the feature. Launched at the end of May, the function worked ...
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Google has achieved what can only be described as a victory after an investigation into unfair search result manipulation by the US Federal Trade Commission. The FTC yesterday released its verdicts on two charges levelled against Google ...
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Fishbowl Solutions, an Oracle WebCenter Content and Portal Specialized Gold Partner and a Google Enterprise Partner, has announced the release of their Google Search Appliance (GSA) Connector Version 2.5 for Oracle WebCenter Content. This ...
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Marissa Mayer, participating in her first Yahoo earnings conference call since becoming CEO, outlined a broad range of areas in which the company needs to improve. “It was an active and solid quarter with some nice ...
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Online retailers are losing business because they are failing to exploit the full potential of search technology, analyst group Gartner has claimed. Despite improvements in search technology, retailers only rate a B- when it comes to ...
Computerworld-Have you noticed a change in the look of Google's search results page? You might not have.Google tweaked the design of the page a few days ago,giving it a cleaner,simpler appearance.But it's not a change that will jump out ...
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Google has added to its list of acquisitions with the$45m(£28m)purchase of Ukrainian company Viewdle,while at the same time closing a number of unpopular services that have failed to catch on. Viewdle is a developer of facial ...
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