AskJeeves Buys Their Way Into Desktop Search

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MSN Buys Desktop Search Startup

MSN Buys Desktop Search Startup 07/16/2004 10:11 AM

Ask Jeeves Buys Desktop Search Company

Ask Jeeves Buys Desktop Search Company 06/09/2004 02:11 PM
The search company says the acquisition of startup Tukaroo will help it develop an application for searching desktop files as well as the Web.

Ask Jeeves Buys Tukaroo - A Desktop
Search Tech Company

Ask Jeeves Buys Tukaroo - A Desktop
Search Tech Company 06/09/2004 08:43 AM
...Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Ask Jeeves Inc. "We expect that Tukaroo’s desktop search and information management capabilities will enable Ask Jeeves to deliver a seamless, end-to-end search experience across the desktop and the Internet."

AskJeeves Adds Comparison Search

AskJeeves Adds Comparison Search 07/01/2004 09:01 AM
"Ask Jeeves is adding a new search tool to let people compare prices on products without leaving the search site, in partnership with comparative shopping site Kelkoo."

AskJeeves enhances search features

AskJeeves enhances search features 06/21/2004 07:35 AM
Ask Jeeves Inc. has enhanced its search engine to give users the ability to preview images of Web sites listed in search results, a feature the company said will make it easier and faster for users to find the information they are looking for, Ask Jeeves was set to announce Monday.

AskJeeves Intros New Advanced Search
Page

AskJeeves Intros New Advanced Search
Page 10/29/2003 01:14 AM

Google Buys Desktop Software

Google Buys Desktop Software 07/13/2004 02:12 PM

Reuters: Google Acquires Digital Photo Management Company. Web search company Google Inc. said on Tuesday it acquired Picasa Inc., a digital photo management company it hopes will help it to offer services that will differentiate it as it seeks to go public.

Intriguing. Google is moving quickly to assemble the pieces of something much more comprehensive than search and advertising. I'm not sure I can see the full outline, though.

AOL Buys Multimedia Search Firm

AOL Buys Multimedia Search Firm 11/19/2003 08:15 PM
Along with the newly-acquired technology, AOL Search has an agreement with Google to provide algorithmic and commercial search results. ...

Ask Jeeves buys Interactive Search

Ask Jeeves buys Interactive Search 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Computer Weekly Mar 5 2004 2:23PM GMT

Overture Buys Fast Search

Overture Buys Fast Search 02/25/2003 03:24 PM
We are not responsible for them in any way. that I was just reading an article about how FAST came up with a lot of the things that geeks idolize Google for. ...

Yahoo! Buys Brazilian PPC Search Network

Yahoo! Buys Brazilian PPC Search Network 04/12/2005 08:54 PM

Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search

Microsoft buys Lookout to boost search 07/15/2004 11:43 PM
The acquisition comes two weeks after the launch of a revamped MSN search.

AOL Buys Multimedia Search Engine
SingingFish

AOL Buys Multimedia Search Engine
SingingFish 11/19/2003 10:36 AM
" America Online has purchased Seattle-based Singingfish for an undisclosed sum."

Ask Jeeves Buys Interactive Search
Holdings

Ask Jeeves Buys Interactive Search
Holdings 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
Ask Jeeves is buying a family of popular Web sites that includes Excite.com and iWon.com, doubling the company's size.

Monster job search site buys Tickle

Monster job search site buys Tickle 05/28/2004 09:24 AM
Sympatico May 28 2004 1:46PM GMT

Microsoft's MSN Buys E-Mail Search Firm

Microsoft's MSN Buys E-Mail Search Firm 07/16/2004 01:16 AM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Jul 16 2004 5:31AM GMT

Microsoft's MSN Buys E-Mail Search Firm
(AP)

Microsoft's MSN Buys E-Mail Search Firm
(AP) 07/15/2004 11:45 PM
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s MSN online division has bought e-mail search firm Lookout Inc., as part of efforts to improve its own search technology and compete with Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Microsoft buys Lookout Software to
Search Email

Microsoft buys Lookout Software to
Search Email 07/16/2004 04:56 AM
"San Francisco-based Lookout makes software that helps users more quickly search through e-mail stored in Microsoft's Outlook mailbox. Outlook is part of Microsoft's Office software package"

AQuantive buys Denver paid-search firm

AQuantive buys Denver paid-search firm 12/16/2003 07:36 PM
Its technology, which allows online advertisers to manage keywords and search-engine marketing campaigns on sites such as Google and Yahoo!, will be added to ...

Brief: Oracle buys information search
and retrieval software

Brief: Oracle buys information search
and retrieval software 06/17/2005 04:29 PM
Computerworld Jun 17 2005 8:15PM GMT

LookSmart Buys Furl -- The Search
Stickiness Battles Are On

LookSmart Buys Furl -- The Search
Stickiness Battles Are On 09/23/2004 03:21 AM
Well, look at that. Just yesterday, we were pointing out how Ask Jeeves was adding features to store and annotate the websites you like and asked if people wouldn't just prefer to use an independent offering like Furl, rather than be tied down to a specific search property. Whoops. Forget we said that. Furl has just announced (no news sites have it yet, but we're including the text of the email after the jump) that they've been acquired by Looksmart, the also-ran paid-search, paid-inclusion search engine provider. So, this is yet another search provider trying to increase stickiness by letting users do more with their search results. They're also offering five gigs of storage. If you hadn't realized it yet, this space is getting more interesting every day.

MSN Desktop Search

MSN Desktop Search 03/23/2005 11:01 PM
ZDNet UK Mar 24 2005 3:27AM GMT

Desktop Search: It's Getting Serious

Desktop Search: It's Getting Serious 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

Optimizing for Desktop Search?

Optimizing for Desktop Search? 02/01/2005 09:15 PM
"I found the information on my Tivo box and then saved it as a text file on my computer, heavily "optimizing" the text in the document, "stuffing" it with keywords that I thought I might use in the future when trying to find the same information."

Desktop Search from Yahoo!

Desktop Search from Yahoo! 02/01/2005 09:16 PM
Yahoo releases free desktop search utility.

Where was desktop search when we needed
it?

Where was desktop search when we needed
it? 02/01/2005 08:52 PM

Desktop search engines are sprouting like weeds. Google's showed up in October, then Microsoft's in December, and now Yahoo's this month.

...

For lots of people I know, any one of these choices will produce a life-changing productivity boost. For me, though, that's no longer true. The Gmail experiment has become a lifestyle choice. I still maintain a local Outlook mail store, and it's indexed several ways, but I rarely need to search it. Similarly, most of the documents I create -- InfoWorld stories, Weblog postings -- are pushed to the cloud and are searchable there.

Few of you can or should live in the network cloud to the extent that I do. But if you refocus on the corporate intranet, cloud-based storage has compelling advantages. The first and most obvious one is the ability to access your stuff anywhere, anytime, from any client. A subtler point is that documents in the cloud are documents that other people can help you tag and find.

The gating factor for desktop search is metadata. Finding documents based on words they contain is a huge benefit, something we should all have been able to take for granted years ago. But the future isn't faster or prettier full-text search; it's more context and better relevance. And your personal hard drive isn't the garden where these flowers will grow.

Google's PageRank showed us that relevance is a collective judgment. Services such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and Furl are likewise showing us that metadata tagging wants to be a group effort. One of the ironies of desktop search may prove to be that, by the time it went mainstream, the personal hard drive was about to become an endangered species. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

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Meta Search For The Desktop

Meta Search For The Desktop 02/05/2005 10:08 PM

google's doing desktop search?

google's doing desktop search? 05/19/2004 11:50 AM
featuring the worst NYTimes illustration i've ever seen

Google Desktop Search

Google Desktop Search 12/19/2004 03:55 PM
Google Desktop Search is released. Here’s my list of Google’s hits and misses.

MSN Desktop Search on the Horizon

MSN Desktop Search on the Horizon 08/04/2004 03:04 PM
MSN is eyeing more than Web search and will roll out a desktop search offering by the end of the year, exec tells search conference.

A New Player in Desktop Search

A New Player in Desktop Search 08/31/2004 11:33 AM
Source: SearchDay - Copernic, a well-known developer of web search tools, is entering the desktop search marketplace with the release of a new product today....

Alert - Redmond Buys A Clue? MSN Hires
Search Wiz Paul Ryan

Alert - Redmond Buys A Clue? MSN Hires
Search Wiz Paul Ryan 10/31/2003 07:12 AM
There is an old joke about the Borg leaving Redmond alone because there was no intelligent life to be found. Microsoft may get the last laugh yet as they just completed one of the most tech savvy acquisitions this year by wrestling search insider Paul Ryan away from Overture.

Ask Jeeves taps into desktop search

Ask Jeeves taps into desktop search 06/09/2004 10:48 AM

Microsoft demos Web, desktop search

Microsoft demos Web, desktop search 07/30/2004 08:19 AM
REDMOND, Washington -- Microsoft Corp.'s MSN group is looking beyond Web search and is also working on a tool that allows users to quickly and easily find e-mail messages, Word documents, and other files on their computers.

Yahoo to take on Microsoft in desktop
search

Yahoo to take on Microsoft in desktop
search 08/05/2004 07:22 AM
Yahoo Inc. is hoping to leapfrog Microsoft Corp. by releasing a tool that allows users to quickly and easily search for information on their PCs as well as in their personal files stored at Yahoo's online services, a source familiar with the plan said Wednesday.

Copernic unveils Desktop Search

Copernic unveils Desktop Search 09/01/2004 02:30 AM
TechTree Sep 1 2004 7:01AM GMT

Desktop Search Tools Listings

Desktop Search Tools Listings 04/15/2005 06:25 PM
SearchTools Listing Desktop Search Tools Listings Desktop search engines index and search the files on one's own computer. Desktop Search Tools: Apple is showing a new desktop search in its "Tiger" beta of Mac OS X (10.4). Ask Jeeves acquired Tukaroo, a desktop search tool. Blinkx - local files and related web/news search DiskMETA - personal desktop search engine dtSearch Desktop - has many years of experience providing search on personal computers, workstations, local network as well as the dtSearch Web product. Enfish - dashboard search for email, local documents, intranet, internet. FILEhand - local file search, displays extracts, search by word, phrase or Boolean Marc's Outlook review of FILEhand, very positive Google is planning to release a desktop search tool. Hotbot Desktop - Lycos has released a browser based desktop search that reportedly has customizable indexing, and makes use of RSS feeds. The local file search is based on dtSearch. Microsoft plans on integrating better search into its new operating systems. Lookout - searches local files and Outlook messages, bought by Microsoft, July 2004. Readware's ConSearch - This is a tool that automatically indexes your desktop contents and makes it searchable for you. X1 Search - searches files, email messages and attachments, shows context. Marc's Outlook review of x1, very positive Comment On This If you have a comment on this report, a new desktop search engine to recommend, or links to other listings or good articles on desktop search engines, please reply below!

Yahoo to get into the Desktop Search
Game

Yahoo to get into the Desktop Search
Game 08/05/2004 05:49 PM
"Yahoo hopes to leapfrog Microsoft by releasing a tool that allows users to quickly and easily search for information on their PCs as well as in their personal files stored at Yahoo's online services, a source familiar with the plan says."

MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New
Desktop Search

MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New
Desktop Search 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
Microsoft has announced the new MSN(R) Toolbar Suite, and I had no idea there was so much pent up demand to search the desktop, for crying out loud. The new...
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