It uses Technorati, a search service that tracks 111 million blogs, to find relevant conversations.
But Google has become much more than merely a search service.
Really a computer program installed on a Compaq (nyse: CPQ - news - people) Alphaserver platform, the KnowledgeBox is being sold through Avnet (nyse: AVT - news - people), the Phoenix-based electronics distribution giant, as a search service.
The stringency of the agreement's terms depend on whether Google makes money from a particular search service.
The service, which Apple has been developing for years, has a mode for viewing areas in three-dimensions, along with a local search service and turn-by-turn driving directions for in-car use.
"Although volunteers are no longer able to assist us with the search, they are providing a catering service for search teams, which is very gratefully received, " he said.
Where, a local search and coupons service, introduced a service that sends users periodic text messages with deals around their current location.
Google faced a similar battle when its founders made the tough decision to layer an agnostic search service with paid ads, and balancing such a service for a consumer market has remained an algorithmic challenge for Google ever since.
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The company already has a standalone product-search service that specializes in "hard" goods such as electronics and draws traffic from the main search engine.
It said that when people used its new engine to search for a Baidu-related service, its rival re-directed them to its own search page.
As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.
He notes that Google has decided to transform its formerly free product search listings into a service that includes only paid listings.
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Should calamity strike, you can use the device to send a distress signal to the GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center, a search-and-rescue service that will coordinate with local authorities to send help your way.
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ReachLocal roll out a new offering that will not only allow act as a vetting service and comparative search engine for consumers to find plumbers, locksmiths and repair personnel (those indispensable heroes of modern life), but a means to control and pay for the entire transaction.
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If Google made a serious play for the wireless spectrum, the search company could sell ads to subsidize a service that Apple's customers could connect to.
In the filing, the AP's supporters argued that Meltwater's service differs from a search engine.
That was the rumor du jour as the high-profile South by Southwest festival kicked off in Austin Texas, after ReadWriteWeb reported hearing that the search giant would launch a service offering photo, video and status message sharing.
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Mobile World Congress is just a few days away, but that hasn't stopped Samsung from pulling back the curtain on TV Discovery: a new service that lets users search for and watch live TV, on-demand video and even online content from outfits such as YouTube.
Mr Viner also thinks more than two-thirds of big companies will switch banks in search of a seamless cash-management service across Europe.
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On February 9th the search giant unveiled Buzz, a networking service that will be closely integrated with the firm's e-mail offering, Gmail.
The body in the reservoir was found by police helicopter at 1605 BST on Friday after a search of the area and the fire service helped with the recovery of the body.
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In October, Excite, which is evolving from the second-largest Internet search site to a fully fledged online service, bought NetBot in order to acquire the firm's shopping-agent technology, with which it hopes to create a virtual megastore.
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Since she received no payments from the businesses she mentioned, Karin decided to try generating some income by signing up for Google AdSense, a service run by the Web search giant that pays bloggers to host ads on their sites.
And Facebook just revealed that it built a natural-language interface for its Graph Search service announced earlier this year.
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That amount includes ads shown next to the search results on other websites, a service it isn't providing to Yahoo.
Samuel Tharp spends 50 hours a week as a vice president at ZoomInfo, an Internet search service that helps companies find information about prospective employees.
The most popular words attract exponentially more eyeballs than the rest--one reason that Google offers a helpful service that tracks the most popular search terms.
Digital marketing firm IgnitionOne on June 6 also announced a Facebook ads management service that works alongside its search, display, and mobile ads services.
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Possible new product announcements range from its own smartphone to a new search engine to some sort of new streaming service, according to techiebuzzie.com.
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