Ask.com upgrade improves search relevance, speed (InfoWorld)
Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine on Monday with several enhancements that it considers significant and that it believes could give its popularity a boost in a market dominated by Google. Ask.com has sharpened the relevance of its search results, made the engine faster, and simplified the site's layout, said Ask.com president Scott Garrell. "The strategy from a product ...
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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer talks about search in the Cloud (Weekend Wrap-up Oct 5 2008) (Pandia)
Microsoft to present operating system for "the cloud" and other recent search engine news.
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SEO Expert Offers Search Engine Optimization Training To Improve Online Visibility (PRWeb)
Learn fundamental search engine optimization in a one day live training class. (PRWeb Oct 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1402754.htm
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SEO Expert Offers Search Engine Optimization Training To Improve Online Visibility (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Learn fundamental search engine optimization in a one day live training class.
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Ask.com Upgrade to Add Improved Relevance, Speed (PC World)
Ask.com plans to deliver enhancements to its search engine on Monday in areas like results relevance and engine speed.
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Ask.com upgrade to add improved relevance, speed (IT World)
Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine on Monday with several enhancements that it considers significant and that it believes could give its popularity a boost in a market dominated by Google.
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Upgraded Ask.com claims faster searches (PC Advisor)
New layout coming as Ask chases Google Ask.com has upgraded its search engine with several enhancements it claims will give its popularity a boost in a market dominated by Google. The changes have gone live in the US today, and will hit the UK market on 20 October.
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SearchPerks - Microsoft’s New Prizes For Searches Program (Search Engine Land)
Microsoft’s Live Search Cashback program has failed to grow the company’s search traffic significantly (as I expected), so now it’s try again time. Out officially today is SearchPerks, a program designed to be easier to use and more broadly targeted than Cashback. Microsoft says SearchPerks was already in the works and isn’t [...]
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Image recognition finds, helps label photos (San Francisco Chronicle)
Looking good for family and friends isn't the only worry when posing for a camera. Increasingly, computers also are peering at digital images posted online in an effort to identify the faces. The goal: Help people organize their photo albums, sift through...
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Reading the Future of Web Search (Law.com)
Although Google has become synonymous with Web searching, not everyone believes it holds the future to search technology. Next-generation search tools focus on preparation, organization and presentation and utilize concepts such as clustering, visualization and human editors.
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