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Remember back in 2009, when Techdirt reported that Rupert Murdoch hated Google so much he had decided to block the search engine from in...

FAST - "Federation Against Software Theft" - is manifestly one of the more risible copyright organisations, since it doesn't e...

Just the other day I wrote about the foolishness that was the Gallo Report – which, alas, seems to have gone through with all its excesses. ...

Remember Wolfram Alpha? That super-duper search engine - sorry, "computational knowledge engine" - that was going to change the w...

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It has been clear since the mid 1990s that search engines are central to the Internet and its use. The rise of Google as the bellewether Ne...

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I've noted before that Microsoft and Elsevier are, well, shall we say, kindred spirits. As Peter Suber observes , they're going to...

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This was new to me: Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into...

One of the big advantages of open content is that there are no problems with indexing it - unlike proprietary stuff, where owners can get un...

What on earth took them so long? Finally, Google has integrated Picasa Web Albums into Google Image Search. Public albums can be enabled for...

The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night. The move comes two years to ...

Here's another billion reasons why DRM'd music downloads will die out - and why copyright law will need to be rewritten: Like milli...

Here's one good reason why you might want to blog: At the height of the cyber-abuse, Sue Scheff, a consultant to parents of troubled te...

This is just a test to see if anyone's awake, right? Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing $7.5 m...

I'm not a great user of Baidu , for geographical and linguistic reasons. But this eye-tracking analysis that compares Baidu with Googl...

One consequence of Google's rather expensive acquisition of DoubleClick is that it turns the company from a search engine that sells ad...

It was the arrival of the first-generation search engines like Yahoo and Lycos in the mid-1990s that turned a collection of disparate online...

That old contrarian curmudgeon, Andrew Orlowski, has found a soul-mate in Richard Bennett : "[t]he veteran engineer played a role in th...