Ask.com have revealed the famous Jeeves butler is to be phased out completely and removed from the site.
In a statement, the company explained that Jeeves is giving the impression to searchers that the only service Ask
offers is the ability to perform a search query with a straightforward question; less prominent are its other tools […]
A new beta search tool has been posted up on Yahoo’s Next website, the showcase site for their new products.
Instant Search is an AJAX-based interface for Yahoo search that lets you do a search and go straight to your destination without ever having to see a results page - as you type in the search […]
Users of the woefully slow, spam-ridden Technorati will be happy to learn that Google have just announced their first foray into the world of blog search.
Blogger.com users won’t have missed the prominent addition of Google Blog Search on the dashboard page that allows you to “Search blogs from all over the web”, not just Blogger-hosted […]
Samsung have made a bold announcement that the world is set to enter a “digital paper age” with the introduction of a 16 gigabit flash memory chip.
According to the company, devices like CDs and hard disks are set to disappear as flash memory dominates the information age:
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“In the same way that civilization rapidly progressed after […]
Windows IT Pro is carrying an exclusive from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference that the next OS from the software giant is to come in no less than seven different flavours.
The editions will fall into two general categories - Home and Business, much like Windows XP Home and Pro editions.
The Home category will feature 4 […]
A surprising rumour has hit the blogosphere that Google may acquire the ubiquitous news service Reuters.
The story feels far-fetched, and John Battelle has posted on why he’s treating this one with scepticism:
I mean, what on earth would the Google culture DO with Reuters? Really, I’ve dealt with both companies extensively, I can’t imagine a worse […]
WebProNews.com is reporting that MSN have included two new search operators to search.msn.com for searching RSS feeds without the need for creating long, complex search strings.
Putting feed: before your search term will return any RSS, RDF or Atom feeds that contain the query, so for example feed:Igniq will return not only the various feeds on […]
The Telegraph is running a story about Jacques Chirac’s plan to fund a euro-centric search engine in order to defend against the threat of “Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialism.”
The French prime minister is concerned about the dominance of American giants like Yahoo! and Google in French culture and intends to provide loans to a French group to […]
A lawsuit Microsoft filed after one of their executives defected to Google has revealed MS CEO Steve Ballmer really, really doesn’t like Google.
Executive Kai-Fu Lee jumped the Microsoft ship for Google in July, prompting MS to file the lawsuit, arguing that Lee was in violation of a one-year non-compete agreement because he could pass Microsoft […]
