Furl Search Client Acquired By LookSmart
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Furl Search Client Acquired By LookSmart  LookSmart, an Internet search company, today announced the acquisition of  Furl.net, an innovative service that enables users to save a full-text copy of any page on the Web, then search and share that data. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Furl allows members ...
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New developer program invites closer integration with search AOL functions.
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Now in beta test, EffectiveUI's new eBay Desktop is aimed at letting users shop, search and buy from their desktops instead of inside Web browsers, as well as to simplify user tasks and 'optimize rich media' along the way.
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Software maker makes a grab for Norway's Fast Search &#38; Transfer, a leader at the high end of the business search market.
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roundup Plus: LookSmart names new CEO...Akamai boosts Web application services...Good Technology supported by HP, Samsung.
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Is There a Future for LookSmart?  Former search giant LookSmart has reissued investor guidance numbers for the last quarter of 2004.  Posting lower revenues than expected, the beleaguered firm admitted it overestimated potential revenues by about $2million and underestimated quarterly losses by about $700,000.   The erroneous projections, originally issued in ...
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DCC snaps up firm for â¬12m Fayrewood Plc confirmed yesterday that it had sold French outfit Banque Magnetique SAS to DCC Plc's retail disty subsidiary.â¦
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The search engine company Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ) says it will buy Trustic, the owner of the blog searching, publishing and tracking Web site Bloglines.com. The deal comes as search engines add capabilities to meet user demand for more than just answers to simple queries. The value of the agreement was undisclosed.
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Blog: As rumored, the two companies have been acquired--not by MySpace, but by the social network
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Copernic, a well-known developer of web search tools, is entering the desktop search marketplace with the release of a new product today.
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Enterprise search companies and analysts say Microsoft's deal to buy FASTshows the market has arrived.
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Looksmart has thrown its hat into the 'personal web' ring, with the acquisition of Furl.net, a web page clipping and archiving service.
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Bausch & Lomb, the eye health company, said it had acquired rival, eyeonics Inc., for an undisclosed amount.
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Yahoo! has purchased a privately held e-mail software company that develops software technology that allows users to quickly search through mails and attachments.
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Company joins heavyweights Google, MSN, and others in desktop search fray.
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Wants to mine web with Fast buy Microsoft is to acquire Norwegian business search engine company Fast Search and Transfer for 6.6bn kroner ($1.23bn).â¦
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Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.The acquisition will bring Microsoft powerful high-end search technologies to complement its enterprise infrastructure offering, the company said.Microsoft&#39;s recent efforts in the enterprise search market have been aimed at the other end of the market. In November, It introduced two new low-end enterprise search products,&#160;Search Server 2008 and Search Server Express 2008, both based on its SharePoint Server 2007 business productivity platform. It is pitching&#160;Search Server 2008&#160;as a cheap entry into enterprise search, while the Express version is free for single installations.By integrating Fast Search&#39;s products with SharePoint, and drawing on its worldwide network of partners, Microsoft hopes to bring Fast Search&#39;s products to a wider audience, it said Tuesday.It is also counting on Fast Search&#39;s Norwegian research team to bolster its research efforts in Europe. Microsoft has laboratories in Cambridge, England, and in Copenhagen, Denmark.The directors of Fast Search, based in Oslo, have recommended that shareholders accept the offer, which represents a premium of 42 percent over Fast Search&#39;s share price at close of business on Friday. The companies expect the deal to close in the second quarter, subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of the holders of at least 90 percent of Fast Search&#39;s shares.Fast Search&#39;s rivals in the market for specialized enterprise search tools include Google, with its Search Appliance; French search company Exalead, and Autonomy, which recently acquired Meridio and Zantaz.Representatives of Fast Search could not immediately be reached for comment.&#160;