Google Doubles Search Index
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Coinciding with the preview of Microsoft's new MSN Search, Google has announced its search index has nearly doubled to a massive 8 billion documents. The company says users will now find more results on obscure topics that previously returned just a handful of Web pages. The new index places Google's search scope far beyond its rivals, but as Google V.P. of Engineering Bill Coughran notes, "The real test is how well we do in finding what you want from within those pages. We'll keep improving that too."
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Microsoft's books search engine has expanded to include some copyrighted works in its index. Results containig copyrighted material were first made available Thursday evening.
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By Steve Lawson  GOOGLE are overhauling their search system so it returns results from news sites, blogs and video services instead of just from web pages.
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Shares of Google Inc. hit a new high on Monday, giving the Web search leader a bigger market value than rival Yahoo Inc., as traders who had shorted the stock scrambled to buy back scarce shares after Google's better-than-expected quarterly results last week.
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Google is offering free software that lets users simultaneously search the Web and their personal computers for information. Analysts call the move a potential blow to rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in the race
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(InfoWorld) - Google's flagship search site accounted for just over half of all online searches in the U.S. in August, according to a survey by Nielsen/Netratings. The search giant played host to just over 3 billion searches during the month, and its search traffic grew 30 percent year-on-year. Yahoo placed second with 24 percent of all searches, but also enjoyed strong, 23 percent year-on-year growth. Microsoft'sÂ revamped Windows LiveÂ trailed in third with 10 percent market share and just under 600 million searches. AOL's search suffered the biggest dip in growth. Although AOL Search finished fourth with over 328 million queries, its traffic fell 18.2 percent compared to the same month in 2005.
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Google Now Indexing Up to Six Url Variables  Some great news for those stressing over whether Google will be able to spider their very long dynamic urls. Appears in the last couple weeks Google has been pushing the envelope in terms of spidering urls that contain more than 5 variables and ...
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Google will boost its universal search effort, making a bolder push to blend a variety of Web links into a single results list.
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Shares in the search engine might double as the IPO lockup period expires.
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Ask Jeeves Inc. is getting personal with Web search and trying to leapfrog its bigger competitors in the process. The Emeryville, Calif.
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The new search-engine technology is meant to rival Google. Also: Reebok unveils a new version of the Pump & hellip;.  PeopleSoft still won't settle for Oracle's bid & hellip;. and more.
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Search giant, unused to trailing in the market, adds features and eyes its rival.
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Google stock jumped above $500 for the first time Tuesday, leaving the shares up nearly 500 percent since the world's No. 1 search engine went public little more than two years ago.
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As FTC probe continues... The FTC inquiry was a just a start. In the coming weeks, Google will also face a pair of congressional investigations into its proposed $3.1bn merger with online ad company DoubleClick - one in the House and one in the Senate.â¦
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Shares of Google, the most-used Internet search engine, which went public this summer, surged 17 percent Friday after quarterly profit more than doubled and the company said the market for Internet advertising was showing no signs of slowing.
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Phil Davies relies heavily on Google for his two online businesses. The search engine drives half the traffic to his antiques retail Web site. But when Google recently made a change to the algorithm that it uses to rank sites, it bumped his from a slot on the first page of results to the sixth. That...
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Ask Jeeves Inc. has made three significant enhancements to its search engine, as the Emeryville, California company continues to take aim at its much larger competitors