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Microsoft has extended a guarantee that provides Yahoo with financial protection as part of the two companies' Internet search partnership. http://phys.org/news287159573.html Technology Tue, 07 May 2013 15:33:00 EST news287159573 Ads pegged to Google search results can be racially biased because of how certain names are associated with blacks or whites, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news279221044.html Technology Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:24:19 EST news279221044 US regulators scheduled an announcement Thursday on their lengthy antitrust probe of Google, amid reports a voluntary settlement was likely. http://phys.org/news276439469.html Technology Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:45:02 EST news276439469 (AP)—The New York Times Co. is selling its troubled online information service, About.com, to the parent company of Ask.com for $300 million in cash. http://phys.org/news265280523.html Technology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:02:10 EST news265280523 Searching and finding in audio archives can be improved if we take a different look at the underlying technology and allow for how the results are used. This provides a better picture of the problems and the points for improvement. Laurens van der Werff demonstrated this in his PhD thesis 'Evaluation of Noisy Transcripts for Spoken Document Retrieval', which he will defend on 5 July at the University of Twente. http://phys.org/news260622054.html Technology Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:01:07 EST news260622054 Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google. http://phys.org/news255876813.html Technology Thu, 10 May 2012 13:53:44 EST news255876813 Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal - its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet's most lucrative market. http://phys.org/news245529069.html Technology Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:31:31 EST news245529069 It looks as if Microsoft wants a seat at the negotiating table if Yahoo decides to sell part or all of its business. http://phys.org/news241330338.html Technology Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:30:01 EST news241330338 Engineering professor Shih-Fu Chang is trying to make visual search technology as effortless as typing a keyword like “Morningside restaurants” into Google. http://phys.org/news238832671.html Technology Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:24:40 EST news238832671 Julpan on Wednesday announced that Twitter has bought the startup that specializes in sifting relevant or important data from blogs, tweets, and other online social content. http://phys.org/news235849354.html Technology Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:42:49 EST news235849354 Chinese search engine Baidu has agreed to invest $306 million in domestic travel website Qunar as it seeks to cash in on the booming tourism market in China. http://phys.org/news228223501.html Technology Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:25:25 EST news228223501 (PhysOrg.com) -- We all like to get the best deal possible for the things that we buy but you do not always have the time to go from shop to shop in order to find what you want. Luckily, there is a search tool that can help you to that without using the extra gas. This search tool is a bit different than simply using Google to find the prices. It begins by taking a picture of the item in question. Once your phone takes its snapshot it will begin to look for the item and then give you a look at the prices that you can get in local shops or on the web. This is similar to the bar code scanning applications that are currently on the market only it works with a standard cell-phone photos. http://phys.org/news227895350.html Technology Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:21:12 EST news227895350 China's largest Internet portal Sina said Tuesday it has replaced Google's search service on its websites with its own technology, further denting the US giant's presence in the Asian nation. http://phys.org/news220597388.html Technology Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:03:21 EST news220597388 (AP) -- A French creator of specialized search engines on Tuesday filed a new complaint with the European Union about alleged anticompetitive behavior by Google Inc., a reminder of the regulatory hurdles the online search giant faces in the region. http://phys.org/news217594300.html Technology Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:52:00 EST news217594300 (AP) -- Just because Yahoo Inc.'s U.S. website and Microsoft Corp.'s Bing are using the same technological ingredients for searching the Internet doesn't mean they're slicing and dicing the results the same way, too. http://phys.org/news205043100.html Technology Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:10:05 EST news205043100 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s technology is now processing all the search requests on Yahoo Inc.'s website in the U.S. and Canada, completing a long-awaited leap that creates a more formidable challenger to Google Inc. in the most lucrative part of the online advertising market. http://phys.org/news201886693.html Technology Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:38:50 EST news201886693 Search giant Google has bought the shopping comparison website Like.com, the two companies said on Monday. http://phys.org/news201801429.html Technology Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:57:35 EST news201801429 Japan's top Internet portal Yahoo! Japan on Tuesday announced a search alliance with Google, in a deal that would see both giants dominate the Japanese market in a possible blow to Microsoft. http://phys.org/news199429769.html Technology Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:10:06 EST news199429769 (PhysOrg.com) -- Current methods of searching audiovisual content can be a hit-and-miss affair. Manually tagging online media content is time consuming, and costly. But new 'query by example' methods, built on peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures, could provide the way forward for such data-intensive content searches, say European researchers. http://phys.org/news177780052.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news177780052 (PhysOrg.com) -- The explosive growth of video on the internet calls for new ways of sorting and searching audiovisual content. A team of European researchers has developed a groundbreaking solution that is finding commercial applications. http://phys.org/news177001844.html Technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:11:44 EST news177001844 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created the first integrated semantic search platform that integrates text, video and audio. The system can 'watch' films, 'listen' to audio and 'read' text to find relevant responses to semantic search terms. At last, computers are able to look for meaning in our multimedia searches. http://phys.org/news176106806.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:50:02 EST news176106806 (AP) -- The executive who led Google Inc.'s expansion in China after being hired away from Microsoft Corp. following a high-profile court battle is leaving to start his own business, the U.S. search engine announced Friday. http://phys.org/news171276094.html Technology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:10:01 EST news171276094 (AP) -- Although it plans to lean on rival Microsoft's search engine, Yahoo says it will keep innovating in the field. That's one of the main messages that Yahoo tried to convey Monday it previewed an upcoming overhaul to its search page. http://phys.org/news170349939.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:25:53 EST news170349939 SAN FRANCISCO _ Shares of Yahoo Inc. bucked the downward trend for technology stocks Monday and gained more than 7 percent, following reports late last week that the company is in serious discussions with Microsoft Corp. about teaming up in the online-advertising market. http://phys.org/news158864902.html Technology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:09:15 EST news158864902