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Last May, Yahoo! bought Inquisitor plugin, which suggests selected keywords as one goes along entering letters into the search box, a particularity integrated into the browser, much like the option "Search Assist" already proposed on the Web by Yahoo! since a few months, or like "Google Suggest", integrated by default to the search engine. The first version of Inquisitor was only available on

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Last April, Google launched a system to extract quotations within their search engine for daily news (Google News) called "Google In Quotes". In this first version, the extraction of quotes occurred only for the past month. Now, the engine has just announced that browse quotations could take place over the last five years. The home page of the tool, which provides a selection of quotations from

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According to the New York Times, Google should have purchased a new aircraft (after their Boeing 757 and 767 as well as their two Gulfstream V) in the form of a Dornier -Dassault-Breguet Alpha Jet, a fighter plane well known in France as it is on this type of aircraft that flies the famous "Patrouille de France". The entire fleet - which is all of the company H211 LLC, itself owned by Sergey

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A few days ago, Google released their financial results which showed that this small business was not aware of the crisis, with profits of 1.3 billion dollars for a turnover of 5.54 billion, an increase of 31 per cent in one year. A few hours later, it was the turn of Yahoo! to announce its results with a net profit of 54.3 million dollars, while it was 151 million twelve months earlier ...

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Google recently announced that they release the source code for Android to make it a 100 per cent Open Source project, provided under Apache licence. A new site, entitled " Android Open Source Project ", offers many tools such as mailing lists, programming guide lines and, of course, also the source code itself. Though Google expects that the developers' community will expand and improve the

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David Durand-Pichard, the vice-president of the "search engine optimizer" consultant' association SEO Camp, also in charge with issues relating to employment, introduced almost two weeks ago the results of the study that was carried out this summer within som hundred employers and recruiters. According to this study: - Over 54 per cent of the "search engine optimizer" consultants, recruited in

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A few months ago, Google proposed a service entitled "First Click Free" available on Google News, their daily news research site. The idea behind is to index even restricted payable content requiring loging in to a publisher's Web site by allowing access to Google crawlers to go through its content. Thus, a site that suggests, for example, articles within a restricted fee payable space, with

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American users of iGoogle, the giant's system of personalized homepages, have at their disposal since last week an updated version of their tool offering "full-page views" of the available widgets. This updated version allows users to expand the page and though offer more contents. All without leaving iGoogle, of course, as for the time being the fact of "keeping people on hand" seems to be the

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Since a long time, Google provides the service "Google Translate", a tool to help making automatic translations of texts and web pages online. Google also suggests since last week a gadget (commonly named "widget") - the announcement is recent but the tool's already available since a couple of months - as well as tags to apply to these tools. The widget may be installed on a web page and

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The "universal search" built up by Google, which consist to "cast" into the search engine's pages results information issued from diverse sources (daily news, images, videos, maps etc.), give us today a slight perception of the "portal strategy" employed by the American leader on his sites. In fact, more and more, Google evolves from being a simple "hub" (a search engine served as an interface

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SEOmoz, one of the most relevant Anglophone sources dedicated to search engine optimization, has built up a 30 billions pages index, being updated every month, at the benefit of their Linkscape tool, which allows you to "understand" and to analyze the links between the different Web pages. Thus SEOmoz may indicate that on the Web, 58 percent are internal links (42 percent are though pointing

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Yahoo! launched, some weeks ago, a competition destinated to challenge developers to create a new kind of search engine "with immediate entry" in using their offer BOSS (Build Your Own Search Engine). The outcome of this competition has just been featured and the first price winner (with an award of 2 000 $) is KallOut, a search tool integrating a websearch fonction into a Wordfile or in an

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Google Webmaster Tools, an interface for the seach engine's webmasters, offers since yesterday a new functionality to keep track of internal and external links ("backlinks") pointing to pages that don't exist anymore on your site and generate the error code 404. This service may be found under the index "Diagnostics", option "Web crawl", link "Not found"... These non found pages will then be

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Google Street Views, or 360° panoramic street-level views of a great number of cities, are finally introduced in France since last night. After providing camera icons taken from small towns and areas along the "Tour de France" route this summer, and having seen these "Google cars" travel along France since a couple of months, now it's Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Marseille, Lille and Nice (and their

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Google just lost, successively, two copyright cases in Germany over Image-Search service online. The first case concerns the german photographer Michael Bernhard who accused the search engine the fact that Google displayed his copyrighted photo on their previews. Thomas Horn, holder of a number of comic copyrights, made the same charges against the American search engine. Both of them won their

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Search engines like A9, Yahoo! and Live already offer it, and soon Google will give the possibility to power search results through a RSS feed, as they confirmed last week on the Search Engine Land Site. The system will be working as an extension of Google's alerts, which for the moment only may be reached by mail. This new fonction should be available in a couple of weeks, at the latest in the

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A new draft of Open Directory (or Dmoz), the huge public directory managed by voluntary editors, will it possibly be available within the next couple of months? Anyway, a new person in charge, with the sweet name Emily, has been nominated by AOL (She posted her very first article on the search engine's official blog in order to respond to some frequent questions from netsurfers concerning Dmoz)

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No, the search engine Ask.com is not dead ! Despite some announcements and a quite bad communication some months ago, this historical main actor in web searches just launched a new design for their American market tool (the application for the French market hasn't been updated but it's not sure someone still handling it...). The 3D approach, offering on the page a results list, images, videos

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Xippee is a very simple plugin, available for most of the current web browsers (Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari), which allows you to focus your queries on the major search engines (working on 80 search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Live): when you display the results list and you select a word, it generates a small window which enables you to either add this word to your future queries

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This project was in the air, existed as a test version for a couple of months, and is now made public: The offer "AdSense for Games" with sponsored links included in Video Games, carried out following the take over of the company Adscape Media in February 2007, is now available for Video Games online produced with applications as Flash Player and JavaScript. For this beta version, Google worked

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This was rather logic: after his main competitors, it was most likely that Yahoo! launched his own system to mesure audience performance. Now it's done, since last Friday. Yahoo! Analytics, based on the performance of IndexTools, aquired last april, is for the moment only available for "Yahoo Small business" customers and to former users of IndexTools. This tool is also expected to be able to

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Wikia, the search engine created by the team that set up the encyclopedia Wikipedia, offer not since very long the program WISE, "Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions", a little bit along the same lines as the Yahoo!'s program "Search Monkey". WISE allows to create applications (called "Wiseapp") which display in its search results information available on line: weather reports, beginning of

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ID Bot is a tool for analysis and auditing of web sites launched almost two weeks ago by the company ID Nova at the Ecommerce Fair 2008 held in Paris. This tool allows of course to track missing pages (code 404) as well as failing index of audience performance, but also offers a number of useful services helping for website SEO: detecting incorrect titles and meta description tags (too short,

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Accoona search engine, created end of 2004, was backed up with a lot of publicity and communication (the presence of the President Bill Clinton at the inaugural Ceremony in New York etc.). Based on Fast's technology of search, Accoona had at this time great ambitions both on the Anglophone and worldwide web. They just surrendered and all local sites give now the same goodbye message... It's a

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Hakia search engine, created in April 2006, based on a mix of semantic analyses, ontology, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence, just made public the new version of their users interface. This new version put forward an initiative that allow you to get "Trusted Results from Credible Sites". This initiative to put ahead "credibility", along the same lines as TrustRank, different from "

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