Tag: Google

Searching Facebook More Intimately

By David Talbot | 12/01/2009 | 0 Comments

Cuil indexes your Facebook network and produces results based on your social connections.

How Secure Is Cloud Computing?

By David Talbot | 11/16/2009 | 2 Comments

Cryptography solutions are far-off, but much can be done in the near term, says Whitfield Diffie.

Searching for Real-Time Search

By Erica Naone | 11/09/2009 | 3 Comments

Google's CEO says it's still an unsolved problem.

Energy-Aware Internet Routing

By Will Knight | 08/17/2009 | 1 Comment

Software that tracks electricity prices could slash energy costs for big online businesses.

An Operating System for the Cloud

By G. Pascal Zachary | 08/10/2009 | 0 Comments

Google is developing a new computing platform equal to the Internet era. Should Microsoft be worried?

Rogue Pharmacies Dominate Bing's Ads

By Kristina Grifantini | 08/05/2009 | 11 Comments

Illegitimate pharmacies account for 90 percent of drug ads on Microsoft's Bing, according to a new report.

Search Spammers Hacking More Websites

By Kristina Grifantini | 07/30/2009 | 5 Comments

The head of Google's Web-spam-fighting team warns that spammers are increasingly attacking websites.

Cuil Tries to Rise Again

By David Talbot | 07/22/2009 | 1 Comment

Last year's "Google-killer" plans a comeback with social search.

Search Me

By David Talbot | 06/23/2009 | 5 Comments

Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram's new "computational knowledge engine."

Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages

By David Talbot | 06/10/2009 | 1 Comment

University of Washington software pulls facts from 500 million Web pages.

What's Microsoft's Bing Strategy?

By David Talbot | 06/03/2009 | 4 Comments

Nipping at Google's heels, Bing focuses on refining product-related searches.

Google Explores "Eyes-Free" Phones

By Kate Greene | 06/02/2009 | 2 Comments

An adaptive interface with tactile and audio feedback could make it easier to ignore a small screen.

Google Grabs More Geo-Data

By Kate Greene | 05/22/2009 | 0 Comments

By letting developers store data on its servers, Google hopes to make the geo-Web more searchable.

Wolfram Alpha Braces for Overload

By David Talbot | 05/18/2009 | 0 Comments

The computational knowledge engine expects a flood of users.

Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off

By David Talbot | 05/05/2009 | 0 Comments

Our exclusive test shows how the two Web engines compare when given the same queries.