Search Dominates New Advertising Spending

Google and Yahoo are eating lunch on what used to be the expense accounts of the largest advertising and information venues in the world. Both Google and Yahoo reported record revenues last quarter, income that is expected to grow rapidly over the coming years. As the...

2004 – A Year of Search in Review

This is the last edition of the StepForth Weekly News for 2004, making this the perfect time to write a retrospective before moving into the new year. The past year will be remembered as the most interesting year in the history of search, that is until this time next...

IBM WebFountain Splash

IBM has introduced its new search tool, WebFountain to rave reviews from the IT community. WebFountain is the result of three years of research and development from engineers at Big Blue and may be the most well developed analytical search and data-mining tool to...