Looking Up Vertical Search Lines

Vertical search refers to search engines designed to return results from very narrow or specific information or business sectors. Search tools that focus on a tight regime of information have existed for years. There are plenty of examples that already exist such as...

InterActiveCorp Acquires Ask Jeeves for $1.8-billion

Ask Jeeves has been sold to Internet media conglomerate InterActiveCorp (IAC) for nearly $2-billion. Rumours about the sale, which started circulating early Sunday with a short story in the Wall St. Journal, were confirmed this morning by both IAC and Ask Jeeves. The...

comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings Released

Search engine watch has printed December 2004 stats from comScore Media Metrix detailing the market share of the major search engines going into the new year. Google continues to dominate, generating 48% of all search results either directly or by providing results to...

The Distribution of SERPs: Who’s Feeding Whom in 2005

The search engine marketplace underwent a number of changes in 2004 with the number of independent sources nearly tripling by year’s end. Twelve months ago, Google was the dominant search tool feeding information to almost every other popular search engine in...

AOL contracts Norway’s FAST for search platform technology

Fast Search and Transfer of Norway has won a very large contract from AOL to develop a search platform based on its FAST enterprise search technology across various applications in the AOL network. Owned by media giant Time Warner, AOL has spent the last year trying...