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The Near-Death of Blog Search

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 11/11/2011 - 10:13

The first blog search engine was P


 

Google freshens up search engine

Digg / Tech Industry News  Fri, 11/04/2011 - 06:07

The search giant is updating its core software to offer users fresher results to their queries where relevant.


 

Students Have No Idea How Google Works

Digg / Tech Industry News  Mon, 08/22/2011 - 16:55

You'd think that with all their Googling to find the Spark Notes of the novels they didn't read, today's students would understand how the search engine works.


 

Google+ Adds Games: Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zynga Poker And More

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 08/11/2011 - 22:38

Google+, the search engine's recently launched social network, has announced a slew of popular games that will be added to the platform.


 

Google Gets Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit

Digg / Tech Industry News  Sun, 02/20/2011 - 17:24

Over the past several years many BitTorrent search engines have claimed in court that they’re "just like Google", another search engine that allows users to find information scattered around the web.

All this time Google itself remained silent on the issue, until now


 

Google Search Becomes More Social, Integrates Flickr, Twitter & ...

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 02/17/2011 - 07:21

Google has launched major updates to Social Search, integrating information from Twitter, Flickr and Quora throughout its search engine.


 

How Bing is Out-Innovating Google

Digg / Tech Industry News  Tue, 08/03/2010 - 08:28

Google is one of the smartest, most innovative companies in the world, but in its core business -- online search -- it's being routinely shown up by Microsoft's third-place search engine, Bing.


 

Twitter: World's Fastest Growing Search Engine

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 07/07/2010 - 10:50

Since last April, Twitter searches are up 33% and now reach 800 million search queries per day. That's over 24 billion searches per month, more than Bing (4.1 billion) and Yahoo (9.4 billion) combined.

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Exalead, the ‘French Google’, is acquired for €135 million

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 06/09/2010 - 17:00

Exalead, the search engine that (no kidding) underlies Friendster and has been behind French government attempts to build a platform to rival Google (yes), has been acquired by Dassault Systèmes, a leader in 3D software for big company processes for about €135 million ($161.5m).


 

Sphinx: Getting Practical

Linux Magazine: Top Stories  Sun, 06/21/2009 - 20:14

A continuing look at putting the Sphinx search engine to use.