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Once again, Microsoft is finding itself beaten to the punch in the search game. While it has been readying Kumo for its first public airing–probably at next week’s D: All Things Digital event–Yahoo and Google have already shown off their latest search enhancements.
Microsoft says it will introduce its new search engine within the next few days. The world’s largest software company has called the project “Kumo.” It may change that name before the public sees it. Yahoo! and Google seem like odd names for search engines, but those choices never seemed to affect their success.
The days of being cut off from the Internet while you’re on a plane are quickly disappearing.
Internet search company Yahoo Inc. announced Tuesday that it would slash 5 percent of its workforce, as it reported a first-quarter profit that fell sharply from a year earlier but still managed to beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Shares of Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) rose more than 5 percent after hours.
Google search inoperable, reporting unfounded errors Chicago (IL) – TG Daily observed significant problems with Google’s servers today. Whereas Google News was affected yesterday, today it is the main Google search engine at www.google.com. Users searching for anything will find that all returned pages include a warning that the site may harm their computer. This […]
Google Malware Warnings in Every Result? There seems to be a problem with Google (News – Alert) today. I started my Saturday morning browsing the Web and couldn’t open any pages from Google’s search as a “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” message continually came up. After moving over to Yahoo! […]