Search, News Firm, Relegence, Acquired by AOL11/13/2006 The Relegence Corporation of New York, a privately held financial news and information search technology company, has been acquired by AOL. Relegence and its 60 employees will continue to be headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Tel Aviv. Operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL, Relegence will continue to partner with and serve top financial services firms.
Read MoreLike.com, Says 11/09/2006 Visual search engine, Like.com, designed to allow consumers to search for items by appearance, rather than just text, has been debuted by the Riya company. The "Likeness Search" was created to facilitate finding aesthetic or hard-to-describe items on the web.
Read MoreAnswers.com Gains Wiki Web Site11/09/2006 FAQ Farm, a wiki-based user-contributed library website, has been acquired by search engine, Answers.com. The acquisition was completed for $2 million in cash, representing a multiple of approximately five times revenue, based on unaudited numbers.
Read MoreGoogle Ranking, Traced to E-Commerce Solution11/08/2006 ABC News with Charles Gibson, recently featured e-commerce platforms and services for the catalog and retail industry provider, Warp 9, Inc.'s client, Del Sol, as one of the top rising sites in Google searches.
Read MoreMerck Develops Doctor's Bag Search Engine11/08/2006 A new online search tool, MerckSource.com, designed to provide a direct link to unbiased health information, has been developed by Merck, Inc., and is available to the public. An advertising-free online resource, MerckSource.com hopes to provide consumers with free health information written and edited by third-party medical professionals.
Read MoreSearch Engine for Commercial Real Estate Released11/07/2006 Commercial real estate brokerage, Eastern Union Commercial, has developed RealProspex, designed to be a comprehensive database, providing specifically-tailored deals, as an online service for automating commercial property searches.
Read MoreRegional Search on the Rise Per Reports11/07/2006 Human powered and automated local search are key trends for 2007, according to research at 123interface.com, yet few Internet users are aware of them. New search engines like ChaCha.com, are trying to cash in on the trend.
Read MoreThinkronize Search Engine Adds Text-to-Speech Feature 11/06/2006 Text-to-speech support, including 180,000 educator-selected resources, with a read aloud feature, has been introduced by educational search engine for differentiated instruction, netTrekker d.i.
Read MoreShopping Search Engine, Finds Top Ranked Products11/06/2006 The public beta version of a new search engine, developed to return top-ranking products, brands and stores, has been launched by TheFind, Inc., formerly FatLens, Inc.
Read MoreWaazle.com Enhances Results Feature10/23/2006 According to Acrodigm Co., Ltd., a venture company of Korea, it has developed a new concept search engine,
Waazle.com, to demonstrate the best way to produce customized search results.
Read MoreSearch Solution, Developed to Provide Rapid Access to Content10/23/2006 Provider of product intelligence solutions, Centric Software, has released its Centric InSight 6.0, an intelligent search application designed to find and classify all structured and unstructured product information stored behind the firewall in enterprise-wide systems.
Read MoreGoogle Exceeds Analyst Estimates by 20 Cents a Share10/20/2006 Search engine, Google, has exceeded analyst estimates by 20 cents a share, nearly doubling to $733.4 million. Google reported revenues of $2.69 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, an increase of 70% compared to the third quarter of 2005 and an increase of 10% compared to the second quarter of 2006. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs, or TAC.
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