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Search Start-Up Cuil Launches -- Can It Really Beat Google?

Boasting of four areas: Big web index, Unique relevance algorithm, Unique results display and Privacy, Cuil (pronounced "cool") has come out its stealth mode and is taking on the giant Google. The blogosphere more...
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LOUD3R Promises a BETT3R Way To Discover News

Offering a network of over 30 vertical search engines LOUD3R promises a much more refined and focused way to discover the news. TechCrunch offers its review of this service, saying that there are lot more...
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Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to startup Jajah

Startup Jajah is in the news. Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care; so, Yahoo is outsourcing this part completely to Jajah which is a more...
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Fred Says We Need A New Path To Liquidity

Fred Wilson has come out with a blog post that is rocking the blogosphere saying that the big giants (Yahoo, Google, News Corp, etc) are treating the internet assets like toys while smaller services like more...
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Analysis of How Yahoo! buying IndexTools changes Web Analytics

Eric T. Peterson, who has been working in web analytics for over ten years provides his analysis of the Yahoo shopping; Yahoo bought IndexTools to boost its Web Analytics kitty and shore up against the more...
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Cluuz is The Next Generation Search Engine

Here is a nice review of a startup - Cluuz, which is a next generation web search engine whose web search results are powered by: Yahoo Search Web Service, Microsoft Live Search, Alexa Web Search, Technorati more...
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Search Startup Mahalo Gains Momentum

Slowly but surely, is the conclusion of search engine guru John Battelle on the gain of market share by Mahalo, the human powered search engine that is competing with the giants in the field and not surprisingl more...
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Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 Billion

In a bid that will shake up the enterprise search market (currently held mainly by niche players), Microsoft has offered to buy the Norway based enterprise search company FAST for a neat $1.2 billion, more...
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Startup ChaCha Dances with Mobile Search

Anne Zelenka describes what this startup ChaCha is planning to do: effective searching, which often involves orienteering — finding information step-by-step, and using local context at each step as a more...
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AOL To Buy Quigo

Quigo, the contextual advertising online company has been acquired by AOL and will be integrated into the AOL platform. AOL paid about $340 million for the acquisition. more...
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