However, its expansion into the search software business is going ahead rapidly, a company spokesman said.
Google added voice recognition technology to the search software it distributes through Apple for its iPhone.
Britain has Autonomy, which makes specialised search software, and ARM, which designs the microchips for Apple's iPhones.
In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were graduate students, showed Hennessy their work on search software that they later called Google.
The programs sift through old and new documents and e-mail far more efficiently than the search software that comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows and the Outlook e-mail program.
Microsoft, meanwhile, is pursuing online music, photos and search software.
While a keyword job search for "certified public accountant" might turn up ads seeking a small-business chief financial officer who is also a CPA, semantic-search software would intuit that the user is looking for accounting jobs and list only those openings.
The search engine software shows users how often chosen keywords appear in a conversation and where in the timeline.
Google will still stay a search and software company at its core, Steinberg and Parr believe, but the move into e-commerce is a sign of bigger things to come.
Gilder generally avoids software, but I've always regarded Inktomi's software search engine as the beating pulse of the Net.
It is overwhelmed when it must do the same for intangibles such as search technology, software, or drug patents.
E-mail services, ISPs, registrars, search engines and software makers are also vulnerable to attacks and sometimes reluctant to cooperate in the fight against cybercrime.
Bing has been slowly increasing its share of American searches and is working with Facebook on integrating social-networking data into its results in a bid to improve them. (This is another reason why Google wants its own source of social data.) People are also being offered more and more digital information via other sources, including specialised search engines and software applications on smartphones.
Facebook is essentially moving into Google's turf, taking advantage of software the search giant and competitor created.
Russian companies occupy leading positions in, among other specialties anti-virus software, search engines, and text recognition.
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It uses pattern recognition software to search for information in paediatric textbooks.
Over several days last week, Google removed thousands of pages from its search results that security software maker Sunbelt Software discovered were secretly infecting users with hidden malicious programs.
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.
These are big bets, but the Internet's unique strength lies in letting users personalize their news, communication and entertainment online, in Web logs and instant messages, file sharing, search queries and personal software.
Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
Over several days last week, Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) removed thousands of pages from its search results that security software maker Sunbelt Software discovered were secretly infecting users with hidden malicious programs.
There is search capability in the PC BBeB reader software, but we were told Sony's research indicated on-board search wasn't a high priority for users (or at least the focus groups they asked, in any case).
The Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising giant saw a 36.7% leap from last year.
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The Aimster software lets users search for and swap MP3 files instead of text messages.
In Internet search and mobile-phone software, the company has been relegated to also-ran status, behind Google ( GOOG) and Apple ( AAPL).
Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.
Microsoft's MSN search is a new piece of software, not a rewritten version of Lookout.
In areas like Internet search, social networking and smartphone software, Microsoft holds the humbling position of an also-ran.
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The software is designed to search deeper into corporate databases and includes "social Web" features previously found in consumer Internet search products.
The ability to quickly search for and instantaneously deliver new software to our mobile devices is a central feature in this new ecosystem.
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