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Week in review: Yahoo merges with...Icahn
July 25, 2008
Activist investor agrees to join the Internet company's board, though Microsoft appears ready to move on. Also: An Apple a day.
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Jerry Yang
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Forrester Research Inc.
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Microsoft Windows Vista
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Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Windows XP
MSN's Web search picks up steam
January 15, 2005
Net portal is increasingly testing its own legs in Web search race, sending visitors home-baked results over Yahoo's.
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pay-per-click advertising
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MSN
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Overture Services Inc.
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
In their own words: Search engines on privacy
August 13, 2007
CNET News.com tries to clear up recent privacy announcements by surveying Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com and AOL. Here, they respond.How search engines rate on privacy
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America Online Inc.
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Time Warner Inc.
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft ups ante in desktop search
May 16, 2005
New MSN Search Toolbar debuts as software giant labors to catch up in desktop search with Yahoo and Google.
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MSN Search
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
Week in review: Microsoft seeks for search gains
May 23, 2008
Company gets creative in quest for larger search market slice, while Facebook tries to make nice with Google. Also: Soft cell market.
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Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo enters desktop search
January 11, 2005
Portal becomes latest major Internet company to launch consumer software for searching e-mail and other files. Images: Yahoo's desktop search
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X1 Technologies
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Blinkx
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Adobe PDF
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Microsoft Outlook
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
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e-mail
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PC
Week in review: Microhoogle intrigue
July 4, 2008
Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash i...
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Week in review
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News Corp.
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Shockwave
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Internet application
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Adobe Systems Inc.
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Internet search
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Time Warner Inc.
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Google Inc.
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search engine
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Microsoft Corp.
Memo to Microsoft: Yahoo's A-list
February 13, 2008
The merger-minded software giant will likely want to keep Yahoo execs in a host of areas, including online ads, social media, and Web search. More layoffs for Yahoo?
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Microsoft's new search guru talks strategy
September 27, 2007
Microsoft aims to get current MSN users to stop going to Google.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Google Inc.
Search engines race to update privacy policies
July 23, 2007
Microsoft and Yahoo are the latest to announce limits on how long they will keep Web search data.
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Microsoft Corp.
Internet search meets the gadget
January 4, 2006
Google, Yahoo execs to speak at CES, underscoring tie of consumer electronics, Net markets.
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Terry Semel
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Larry Page
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Commentary: IBM, Yahoo looking to leapfrog Google
December 14, 2006
Google has had an unbreakable grip on entry-level enterprise search for some time now. That's about to change.
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IBM Corp.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Google Inc.
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knowledge management
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open source
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Oracle Corp.
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SAP AG
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Internet search
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Google Search
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knowledge
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Microsoft Corp.
The fight to dominate Web search
January 27, 2005
Duking it out with heavyweights, Amazon packs photos into A9.com Yellow Pages. Also: a how-to on blogging at Google.
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Amazon A9
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Amazon.com Inc.
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Google Inc.
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America Online Inc.
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Firefox
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Microsoft Corp.
Internet search gets Web 2.0 style
August 24, 2006
So-called social-search sites are heating up again. But experts doubt they'll unseat the good old-fashioned algorithm.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Google Search
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Netscape Communications Corp.
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Google Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
This week in search
January 28, 2005
For Internet search giants, pictures are worth a thousand words--and hits, they hope.
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Mozilla Corp.
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Microsoft Corp.
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Will Google stay as hot as its lava lamps?
December 27, 2004
To remain at top of HR game, company faces hurdles including less-attractive stock options and prospect of reputation declining. Photos: A Google of ways to work
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Google Inc.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
Year in review: Search goes mainstream
December 28, 2005
Behind 2005's headlines about search champ Google, there was another tale--of an industry maturing.
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Interactive Corp.
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Ask Jeeves Inc.
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Microsoft Corp.
Google's antisocial downside
July 13, 2006
When it comes to the online social-networking party, the search giant is playing the wallflower. Is that a wise move?
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Esther Dyson
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