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Yahoo Adds Yelp, LinkedIn, Yahoo Local to Defaul Search

Written on
August 1st 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – In an attempt to rev up its search engine, Yahoo has rolled Yelp, LinkedIn and Yahoo Local SearchMonkey Apps into its default search results, so users don’t need to add them manually. The changes are part of Yahoo’s plan to garner search results with more structured data. The experimental [...] more...

Yahoo To Offer Its Search Services to Outside Firms

Written on
July 10th 2008
Author
Reuters Group

Yahoo Inc. will let customers, academics and even rivals build customized Web search services on top of its own technology, introducing a resale model into a major Internet market where it ranks a distant No. 2 to Google Inc. In the embattled Internet company’s biggest step yet to carve out a [...] more...

Microsoft Snags Powerset, Eyes Yahoo Again

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July 2nd 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – While the Yahoo operetta may or may not be behind them, Microsoft guns ahead to compete with Google in the search arena. Plan B? Snapping up semantic search engine Powerset. Semantic search has been much ballyhooed of late as the new, hot, smart way to search the Net – [...] more...

hakia Boosts Semantic Search Capabilities

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June 12th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – Hypochondriacs – get psyched: there’s a new outlet for diagnosing a variety of ominous symptoms. hakia, a semantic search engine, announced that it has boosted its health and medical search capabilities with PubMed. hakia said it has added more than 10 million abstracts from PubMed – a medical database [...] more...