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Mozilla: We won't ditch Firefox version numbers

Mozilla will not scrub the version number from Firefox's "About" box after all, putting an end to a often-heated debate that first surfaced two weeks ago.

By Gregg Keizer | 26 August, 2011 21:00

Tags: applications, browsers, internet, mozilla, security, software

Mozilla defends "rapid release" of Firefox versions

The release of a version of the Firefox browser every six weeks is found to be disconcerting, and at times potentially unmanageable by enterprises, the chair of Mozilla Foundation, which maintains the browser, said in a blog post on Thursday.

By John Ribeiro | 26 August, 2011 17:17

Tags: applications, browsers, mozilla, open source, software

Firefox 7 reaches beta, promises faster browsing

Mozilla yesterday released a beta of Firefox 7, putting the lighter-weight browser in front of a large number of users for the first time.

By Gregg Keizer | 20 August, 2011 01:59

Tags: applications, browsers, internet, mozilla, software

Google releases Chrome 12, adds security and 3D

Google has released an update for its Chrome browser, bringing security and 3D improvements.

By Keir Thomas | 09 June, 2011 02:53

Tags: applications, browsers, browser security, chrome, Google, software

Microsoft upgrades Bing webmaster tools

Microsoft has improved the tools it provides for webmasters to track their sites' visibility on Bing search engine results, so that they can make any necessary adjustments to improve how Bing crawls their content and ranks their pages.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 09 June, 2011 04:08

Tags: internet, Microsoft, search engines

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collaborate in search

In a rare display of collaboration, Google has joined forces with its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in a project intended to improve the Web crawling and indexing of structured data, which often originates in databases and loses its format when converted into HTML.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 03 June, 2011 04:25

Tags: Google, internet, Microsoft, search engines, Yahoo

Chrome marches on while IE continues downward spiral

Net Applications has released the browser market share data for the month of May. It looks like more good news for Chrome, and more bad news for Internet Explorer.

By Tony Bradley | 02 June, 2011 03:09

Tags: applications, browsers, chrome, firefox, Google, internet, internet explorer, Microsoft, software

Google adds flight schedules to search results

Using Google to search for airline flights just got a little easier. The search giant announced Friday that it's adding flight schedules to travel-related searches.

By Jeff Bertolucci | 28 May, 2011 07:42

Tags: Google, internet, Microsoft, search, search engines

IDC: Google knocks off Yahoo as US display ad leader

Yahoo, the perennial leader in U.S. display advertising, has lost its number-one spot in that market segment to arch-rival Google, according to an IDC report released on Thursday.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 27 May, 2011 02:32

Tags: advertising, Google, internet, Yahoo

Yahoo CEO: Active talks going on with Alibaba over Alipay

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and co-founder Jerry Yang opened the company's investor meeting on Wednesday addressing head on the company's tussle with Alibaba Group over the latter's decision to spin off its online payment unit Alipay.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 May, 2011 02:14

Tags: advertising, business issues, financial results, internet, search engines, Yahoo

National Library updates Trove search engine

The National Library of Australia has announced version 4.0 of its Trove search engine which now crawls millions of journal articles.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 May, 2011 15:20

Tags: National Library of Australia, search engines, Trove

Ticketmaster unfazed by odd band names

If you can't quite spell Hannah Montana or Boyz II Men you're not alone. But Ticketmaster found it doesn't pay to be too strict about spelling and modified its search engine to accommodate creative alternatives. Managers of enterprise and website search services could do well to follow Ticketmaster's lead.

By Joab Jackson | 30 November, 2010 11:06

Tags: Apache Software Foundation, applications, cloud computing, databases, data management, internet, open source, search engines, software, Ticketmaster, web services

Google search anonymizer up and running again

A service that allows Google's search engine to be used anonymously is running again after a code change briefly knocked it down.

By Jeremy Kirk | 13 May, 2010 02:34

Tags: Google, privacy, Scroogle, search engines

Yahoo deal puts IBM, Microsoft in enterprise search pickle

Yahoo's decision to use Microsoft's Bing search engine could cause a "strange bedfellows" competitive conflict between Microsoft and IBM in the enterprise search market.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 05 August, 2009 06:17

Tags: enterprise search, IBM, lucene, Microsoft, Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, search, Yahoo

CSIRO sells Funnelback search engine

CSIRO has sold its Funnelback search engine technology business to open source content management company Squiz.

By Rodney Gedda | 03 July, 2009 13:51

Tags: csiro, CSIRO ICT Centre, Funnelback, mergers & acquistions, search, search engines, Squiz

Yahoo seeks Hadoop boost with release of internal version

To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to power many of its key sites and services.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 11 June, 2009 03:48

Tags: apache, cloud computing, hadoop, Yahoo

Microsoft set to launch Kumo next week

Microsoft's Kumo search engine may be publically unveiled next week, says the Wall Street Journal.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 21 May, 2009 00:48

Tags: Kumo, Microsoft, search engines

Web Genome Project offers Web search alternative

A New Zealand company called VortexDNA has launched the Web Genome Project as an alternative way to search the Web.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 March, 2009 09:14

Tags: search

Google researcher targets Web's structured data

Internet search engines have focused largely on crawling text on Web pages, but Google is knee-deep in research about how to analyze and organize structured data, a company scientist said Friday.

By Chris Kanaracus | 02 February, 2009 08:39

Tags: structured data

Google launches Cross-Language Enterprise Search

Google launched on Thursday an innovative cross-language search feature that is sure to be welcomed by any global organization.

By InfoWorld staff | 19 December, 2008 07:17

Tags: Google Cross-Language Enterprise Search

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