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A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.

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Syringes with influenza virus vaccine sitting on a tray

Google launches online flu shot finder

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States.


LinkedIn was launched in 2003 as an online community for people to advance career and job prospects

Twitter links to LinkedIn

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website.


Google says its news approach is "fully consistent with copyright law"

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...


The user-pays model is already in place at News Corp's Wall Street Journal

News Corp's Murdoch warns he may block Google

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content.


A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

Technology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...


Chinese site to steer users to legit music source

Technology / Internet

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A free and legal song download service says it now will be getting traffic from China's largest search engine, which is trying to reduce online music piracy.


The search -- computers dig deeper for meaning (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning. Europe is poised to reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers.


Electrical engineers go head to head with Genius on music playlists

Engineers use song-annotating algorithms to study music playlists (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius - the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes - against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs ...


Blinkx adds music video search tool

Blinkx adds music video search tool

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online video search engine blinkx launched a new tool Tuesday to find and watch music videos on the Internet.


Chinese paper accuses Google of hampering searches (AP)

Chinese paper accuses Google of hampering searches

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports ...


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WOWD, the real-time search engine

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The beta version of WOWD, the Internet's newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It aims to differentiate itself from other search engines ...


Google CEO: Vast Web changes coming within 5 years

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (10) | comments 11

(AP) -- A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday.


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Twitter becomes mutual friend of Google, Microsoft

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Refusing to be upstaged, Google's Internet search index will include public updates from Twitter's communications stream.


Internet advertising appears to begin its comeback (AP)

Internet advertising appears to begin its comeback

Technology / Internet

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- After bogging down in the recession, Internet advertising is regaining the momentum that has made it the decade's most disruptive marketing machine.


All-in-one computerized scheduling will make airports greener, more efficient

All-in-one computerized scheduling will make airports greener, more efficient

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new computerised approach to airport operations is being developed that will reduce delays, speed up baggage handling and decrease pollution.