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Google boasts: 'My search index is bigger than yours'

News In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors. And we've sort of been struggling here with respect to the index.

27 September 2005, 10:38

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft share web index tool

News The manual Web page submission process supplements the traditional Web crawling and does not automatically guarantee that the pages will be included in a search engine's index. Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to make...

16 November 2006, 9:14

Google: It'll 300 years to index the world's info

News It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix.

10 October 2005, 11:31

News.blog: Adobe uncovers 'invisible' Flash content

News Both companies have been given optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications that include the Flash file format, or Shockwave Flash,

Tags: adobe, yahoo, engines, index

2 July 2008, 10:03

Sony burnt by Dell battery recall

News Shares in Sony closed down 1.2 per cent lower in trading on the Nikkei share index in Japan yesterday, when the overall index rose by about 1.6 per cent, after Dell's recall of 4.1 million batteries was announced.

17 August 2006, 10:21

Google library search raises privacy issues

News Google announced plans late last year to digitise and index as many as 7 million volumes of material from the University of Michigan to make them searchable on the Internet as part of its Google Print service, a searchable index of books.

20 June 2005, 10:34

London crowned world's Wi-Fi capital

News But the world is in the grip of Wi-Fi fever, according to the latest data from iPass' 'Wi-Fi Hotspot Index' for the second half of 2007. Broadband Index' to reflect rising usage of cellular technologies for getting online.

Tags: accounting, index, wi fi, enterprise

17 March 2008, 8:58

Service lets you rip videos from YouTube

News Peekvid is simply a more organised index of some of YouTube's videos. Known as Peekvid and Keepvid, the sister services are designed, respectively, to aggregate and index copyrighted YouTube content, and allow users to rip content from YouTube...

15 June 2006, 10:25

Google releases customisable search

News The search engine can be customised quickly by choosing keywords and a list of sites the publisher wants included in the search index. Alternately, users can exclude sites from the search index. Custom Search also has the Google Marker tool, which...

24 October 2006, 10:48

An open-source rival to Google's book scheme

News Google was noticeably absent from the cadre of partners, considering that the search behemoth has a high-profile project of its own to scan library books and add them to its searchable index. Google has made scanning books an 'opt-out' programme...

27 October 2005, 10:47

News.blog: Microsoft's Live changes

News This is really useful and will speed up the shopping and research process.expanded video index, scene detection, mouse-over video previews and other features that make it easier to find and watch videos.

Tags: query, translation, index, shopping

27 September 2007, 10:13

Microsoft revisits Vista's PC-rating tool

News The newly renamed Windows Experience Index includes tweaks both in the built-in software and in the way that the assessment is described. For starters, Microsoft redubbed the tool the Windows Experience Index, arguing the moniker better represents...

10 July 2006, 11:09

Google sued for rank errors

News On its website, however, the company explains website rankings may change each time it updates its index, which is every four weeks. Because Google is one of the largest search services on the web, high ranking in its index could mean traffic from...

23 October 2002, 8:40

Google clashes with UK publishers over digital libraries

News To make a book searchable, we have to index the whole work, then we display snippets," she said. Whetstone replied: "That is how a search engine works--scan first, then index. Google has again battled with publishers over its controversial program...

7 June 2006, 10:46

Cuba and Iran lash out at Internet freedom

News The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, offers an Index of Economic Freedom. The index finds a close correlation between wealth and a stable, functioning government. Wealthy regions like Hong Kong, the US and Switzerland respect...

21 November 2005, 9:01