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"Search engine Google has revamped it's user interface to provide a more commercial face to the outside world. The shopping engine Froogle has now been promoted to a main category and the company has given much greater prominence to its contextual advertising alongside search results. [...]
Another change which will cause anguish amongst many searchers is the demotion of the Google Directory."
"Google Inc.'s Labs has cooked up two new search offerings, introducing a
, as part of the Mountain View, California, company's plans to continue to heat up the market.
The new services, currently in beta test, were unveiled Monday by Google's Labs testing ground division. The first, Personalized Web Search, has users fill out a personal preference profile and then provides search results based on interests."
"Microsoft's MSN business unit [...] revealed three new services: MSN Newsbot, MSN Blogbot and MSN Answerbot.
MSN will launch Newsbot and Blogbot by the end of this year, while Answerbot - an Ask Jeeves-like natural language interface for search results - will go live at a later date."
"Microsoft Corp.'s CEO [...] declared MSN would enter the search space with its own algorithmic engine within the next year [...] Ballmer said, 'there's no magic about search; all it takes is good, hard work,' and when MSN's algorithmic search hits the market, 'you'll see good competition in the search arena.'"
AllTheWeb results now powered by Yahoo AllTheWeb results are now powered by Yahoo. That means that one of the biggest search engine database is no longer available. It seems that Lycos.com still accesses parts of the old AllTheWeb database but it's not sure for how long they'll offer that option.
"Yahoo [...] agreed to buy European e-commerce provider Kelkoo for around $579 million to widen its worldwide shopping services and generate new advertising opportunities overseas.
"InfoSpace on Friday announced that it plans to acquire Switchboard, a provider of online yellow pages listings, for about $160 million in cash."
"Kanoodle [...] unveiled a new proprietary ranking/listings management service [...] for its advertising customers. Kanoodle executives, many of whom are formerly of Sprinks, say the new service could give their customers a new degree of control over how their ads perform."
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