But the business' growth and Tom's own search for meaning clashed hard in the mid-1980s.
Considering DirecTV whipped up its own search algorithm from scratch, it seems to work intuitively.
That means publishers are left to compete with Google in Google's own search engine.
Sina is using its own search technology instead, after having announced a partnership with Google back in 2007.
It also comes as Yahoo in the U.S. has stopped developing its own search technology and adopted Microsoft's Bing.
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Innovations here have already increased Microsoft's search business, leaving Google to scramble to improve its own search engine efforts.
We weighed them against the performance of 23 companies that did their own search and brought in an outsider.
Critics complain that heir hunting, if not immoral, is at least distasteful, particularly when the firms initiate their own search.
Some speculated that Ask was becoming a bland portal site, dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google's search technology.
Being a Google product, it will come with its own search box.
Candidates drawn to the page through ads, organic referrals or their own search then click on the tab to browse available jobs.
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Mr Kitchen ended up funding his own search mission in the mountains.
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You can drag the trend-lines in the charts below to create your own search growth forecasts and see how they impact the three stocks.
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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.
However, findings from a Greenlight survey suggest that Facebook could potentially capture close to a quarter of the search market with its own search engine.
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Starting in 2007, Google began to raise its own search results in specialty search categories, Reback said, putting them at or near the top of search results.
Microsoft is also developing its own search technology and ultimately plans to integrate it into Windows, the operating system that runs 94% of the world's personal computers.
My concern is not that I think Google is a bad company, but I do have a concern that while GOOG does own search, search is in danger of becoming commoditized by value added vendors.
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Mr Fukuyama (a pupil of Samuel Huntington who wrote a seminal work on political order 40 years ago) begins his own search for the origins of political order with the shift from small hunting bands to tribes.
While Apple has said it would not develop its own search engine, having an alternative to Google that is not a Microsoft product and could be used on its iOS devices and Mac products could be a nice substitute.
The simplest approach may be through the technology offered by Splunk, which has its own search language that allows you to search through big data, identify useful query types, and express your developing understanding of the structure of the data as you search.
Thomas Vinje, a Brussels lawyer for the FairSearch Coalition, another group of technology companies including Microsoft, Expedia Inc. (EXPE) and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), said Google displays links to its own search services differently from links to competitors, resulting in preferential treatment in comparison to similar services.
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Or I could provide a different last name in case she did her own Google search.
The facility could potentially draw users away from using Apple's own personalised search tool, Siri, which relies on users instigating a request.
Users still prefer to keep their personal lives on Facebook, and their professional lives on LinkedIn, which has its own job search links.
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When Google bought ITA, it was clear that it could create its own flight search tools to compete with the likes of Kayak or Priceline.
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In 2001, in an attempt to beef up its own keyword search technology, the company bought Teoma, a search start-up that spun out of Rutgers.
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Under the terms of the draft deal, formally submitted this week, Google will label its own specialist search services and provide "visible" links to rival search engines.
My alternative idea is for the Newspaper Publishers Association, the Newspaper Society, the PPA and the commercial broadcasters to get together and create their own news search engine.
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Google has had its battles with the EU over the past decade, not least when Germany and France wanted to create their own competitor search engine in the mid-2000s.
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