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Useful meets Social: crowdsourcer Yelp launches in Australia today
In partnership with Sensis, 'online urban city guide' Yelp is opening up shop in Australia today -- and it wants you to spill the beans on local business experiences.
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Search gets friendly: Bing vs Google in the quest for social context
Overnight Bing announced deeper Facebook integration via new "Like" button tie-ins, and with Google rolling out its own "+1" features, the social search race is heating up.
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Melbourne man sues Yahoo over search results
An Australian man is suing search giant Yahoo for defamation, claiming search results on his name made him look like a criminal.
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Google revamps search index with ‘Cafffeine’
New Web indexing system provides faster and more accurate results from a richer spread of sources, but will reshuffle search rankings for many sites…
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New look for Google.com.au looks a bit like Bing
Google Australia rolled out its revamped and slightly Bing-like search results page overnight, and in the process dumped the up-front option to search only ‘Australian sites’.
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Trove: mapping Australia's culture where Google fears to tread
It takes guts to claim you're doing search better than Google, but the National Library of Australia reckons it's got a contender in its Trove search engine
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Google's answer to Wolfram Alpha goes live
What is Google’s response to the newly released Wolfram Alpha? Google Squared.
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Microsoft to launch new Aussie search engine at Bing.com.au
Microsoft’s all-new ‘Kumo’ search engine, which replaces Live Search, will be branded as Bing and launched in Australia this week at bing.com.au
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Google reveals its ‘secret’ servers
Take a peek at the custom-built hardware behind Google’s search engine, where a fleet of dual-x86 servers are crammed into a fleet of shipping containers
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Aussie research leads to better Google search results
Research by a University of NSW student has been incorporated into the search giant's main search algorithms.
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Facebook could surpass Google by 2011
A new report suggests that Facebook has the potential to surpass Google in terms of total worldwide unique visitors by late-2011 or early 2012.
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Windows 7 makes changes to searching
Federated search is a common term in big business, with its billions of items of data, but now it comes to the personal desktop, courtesy of Windows 7
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Quicksilver for Mac gets reborn as Google Quick Search Box
Quicksilver creator Nicholas Jitkoff, has joined Google. His first product, Google Quick Search Box is in early beta, but shows great promise.
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Google brings back search from 2001
To mark its tenth birthday Google has resurrected its 2001 index. You can Google yourself and your friends to see what the world was like seven years ago.
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Microsoft releases faster Desktop Search 4.0
If you've wondered how exactly Vista's sluggish desktop search saves you time, you might be pleasantly surprised by the updated version.
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