All Posts Tagged With: "search engine"

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Google competitor Cuil debut’s

Cuil, a new search engine that claims to index 121,617,892,992 pages has just opened itself to the world. As per Cuil, Google by comparison indexes only half to one third as many pages. Recently Google posted in their blogs that they had indexed the 1 trillionth URL.
Cuil is a stealth mode startup begun by ex [...]

July 28th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Microsoft gains search market share in June, Google drops a little

comScore, Inc. has released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. An interesting trend for June was a 0.7% gain in core search market share by Microsoft while Google lost 0.3%. Microsoft sites saw an increase in search [...]

July 20th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued

Powerset goes live with Wikipedia search

Powerset Inc. has launched its first public product: a natural language search engine that searches the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Powerset’s aims to change the way people search for information by “reading” natural language to provide better search results than traditional keyword searches. Ask Jeeves, now ask.com also has a natural language processing search.
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May 12th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued