Google launched its contextual and intelligent search service, Knowledge Graph, only a few months ago.
The search service has won the hearts and minds of millions and built a booming business.
It uses Technorati, a search service that tracks 111 million blogs, to find relevant conversations.
The stringency of the agreement's terms depend on whether Google makes money from a particular search service.
While Google is best known for its Web search service, it has been pushing aggressively into telephony.
Google says users will be able to buy digital copies of books they discover through its book-search service.
At first, the portal referred its users to the search service for free.
And Facebook just revealed that it built a natural-language interface for its Graph Search service announced earlier this year.
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In an effort to gain more market share, Microsoft plans to start paying people now to use its search service.
Google ( GOOG - news - people ), which vaulted the then-nascent search service into the mainstream.
But Google has become much more than merely a search service.
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.
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.
Baidu commands more than 80% of the Chinese search market, according to iResearch based in Beijing, but has yet to launch its search service internationally.
While terms of the deal have not been disclosed, it marks the latest move by Google.com to expand its offerings well beyond its universally popular Web-search service.
Nearly three years after Brin's 2003 paper, Google (nyse: GOOG - news - people ) still relies on such metadata for its fledgling video-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.
Ballmer isn't portraying the updated browser as a Google destroyer, but many of its features turn out to be a crafty way for people to get around using the most popular search service.
The new and controversial stipulations of the JOBS Act, signed by President Obama in April, are about to be tested by an IPO filling by San Francisco based real estate search service Trulia.
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Popular free Web search service Google, by comparison, will include items posted online, but it ranks them not just by germaneness to the search query but by how many different Web sites link to a particular posting.
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 app wouldn't appear to pose a direct threat to Google because it could potentially help phone makers and wireless carriers sell more Android devices, which include Google's revenue-generating search service, YouTube, Google Maps and other services, rather than those made by rival Apple.
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.
"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.
Figures show the Ayrshire-based search and rescue service responded to 344 calls, an increase of 81 on 2006.
Where, a local search and coupons service, introduced a service that sends users periodic text messages with deals around their current location.
The Walt Disney Company has bought 43% of Infoseek, the Internet search engine and directory service.
The fire service helped search part of the river near Mr Liana's home in St Andrews Road, Northampton, on Monday.
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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