Start Your Engines: Quick Hits From Jeeves, Yahoo!, MSN
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Written By Reprise Media | January 26, 2006 | Share This
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Gutentag, Deutschland
AskJeeves just rolled out the beta version of their German search site, or as the Germans would call it, a serchenginzdrammenagluchgildern…kidding! Anyway, they’re pleased as puntsch about the whole thing, and they plan to introduce a full complement of features over the next few months. The site already employs Jeeves’ new picture search (we have a bit about that here), which has been getting some very friendly press. SearchEngineWatch’s Chris Sherman likes it so much he’s “using it as my default image search service going forward.” As for us, we used Jeeves to find the image adorning this article, and later instructed it to bring us a pleasing assortment of strudel.
Crank up rumormill.yahoo.com
With Yahoo! having acquired Web 2.0 mainstays such as flickr and del.icio.us, can digg be far behind? Not according to Kevin Burton’s feedblog. He cites sources “close to Yahoo” and puts the pricetag in the $30 million range. Digg is officially denying, but that hasn’t stopped bloggers from imagining what could be, if only…SearchEngineJournal offers some intriguing speculation here.
MSN Mad About Labs
According to PCWorld, Microsoft is launching two R&D ventures - “Live Labs,” which will explore technologies such as “multimedia search, distributed computing and data mining,” says spokesperson Adam Sohn - and Search Labs, which will have a much narrower focus. Greg Linden muses that “this move may be a reaction to a perception that Microsoft is falling behind in these areas.”
But Microsoft, along with Vivisimo, is helping Uncle Sam get further ahead - about five times further. Eweek reports that thanks to some new technology, the number of documents the government’s official web portal can search has jumped from 8 million to about 40 million. Get going on those social studies reports, kids.
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