European researchers are making an impressive effort to link digital repositories to create a vast network of searchable data online. DRIVER Project work - one of the largest efforts of its kind - aims to make sense and better use of the “digital world that is increasingly online, the” sphere of data. ”
Europe has thousands [...]

New Microsoft search engine Bing got a slight increase in their share of the U.S. search market in August, the third straight month of gains, according to tracking firm comScore online.
Bing, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant announced in late May, increasing its market share to 9.3 percent in August from 8.9 percent in July and 8.4 [...]

Antitrust regulators in the EU have been involved in informal talks with Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) in conjunction with the association of search engines, according to several reports citing a source familiar with the situation.
So far it is too early to see if the EU executive will result in a formal conversation, antitrust experts [...]

In order to snare a regional online advertising market which will increase as much as forty % this year, web search provider Yahoo. According to Yahoo’s statement this week, Web users in the area will find advantages in the mixture of Yahoo’s products and services with Maktoob’s forcing local content, which now reaches a 3rd [...]

Search engine, Google, together with On2 Technologies, Inc, have jointly said they have entered into a conclusive agreement in which Google will get the developer of video compression technology. Under the terms of the accord, each superb share of On2 common stock will be changed into $0.60 worth of Google class a standard stock in [...]

Yahoo’s long nightmare is over, having eventually offloaded its search business to Microsoft after years of rumours, talks and reversals.
Now all it’s got to do is work out what comes next. A new age at Yahoo started the minute Chairman Carol Bartz signed the forms turning over a right to conduct searches on Yahoo’s great [...]

Microsoft’s search deal with Yahoo is the fruits of months of well documented talks, but in a number of ways, it is only the start of the long road ahead.
In the approaching months, Microsoft and Yahoo will not just need to win licensing permission for the deal, but also work out the way to bring [...]

Backers panned Yahoo’s search and advertising deal with Microsoft on Wed. , sending Yahoo’s stock down 12 p.c. IDC’s researchers called it a “strategic mistake. But here’s what’s good about it : After a year and a twelve public ditching, behind-the-scenes drama, and dysfunctional communications thru leaks to the press, Microsoft and Yahoo now can [...]