By the end of last year, Zoom had enough computer power to open its search engine to the masses--and to process credit-card payments.

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"Help us turn Defcad into the world's first unblockable, open-source search engine for 3D printable parts, " says Mr Wilson in the video posted on the website looking for funding.

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Bearing in mind that he recently revealed the development of a new "open source" search engine to compete for eyeballs with the mighty Google, he is going to need every ounce of optimism he can get.

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Trulia shares rocketed higher at the open, after the real estate search engine company reported first-quarter results Tuesday.

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Powerset, the search engine that Pell created in 2003 and plans to open to the public in 2008, is one of a new crop of "semantic search" start-ups that aim to introduce natural language to the process of finding information on the Web.

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On November 1st an alliance including Google, the most popular web-search engine, and several other firms announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape's browser made the web.

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