The new paid search systems direct traffic to other in-stock products when supplies run low.
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There, with technology first developed in the 1960s for a local Air Force base, 1, 000 engineers work to hone the company's database search systems.
Ballmer talked of the revolutionary implications of a world, perhaps five years away, where all media is delivered via Internet protocol, and said Microsoft would be everywhere--games, search, operating systems, hardware--to capture that.
In fact, Google, on a high level, appears to be more like two companies: Search and Mobile Operating Systems.
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The company gave advertisers more flexibility to use rival search-engine ad systems and said it would allow rivals to opt out of having their content appear on some Google websites.
According to Google, thousands of enterprise customers have already purchased and deployed the Google Mini, a small server that companies, governments and schools can use to search through their own systems.
Federated, which sells advertising for its affiliated blogs, has dabbled in such "conversational marketing" initiatives before, having run similar campaigns in the past with Cisco Systems and search engine Hakia.
Using IMM, firms get a single window to search across multiple silos and systems.
In addition, it's likely that the information Google collects as it watches people search and navigate in all these systems will increase the value of the ads it auctions.
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The company is now in the process of building new systems to allow companies to search and recruit through the site.
In Shenzhen, the Nebulae, which is still being tested, is expected to improve storm warning systems and help genetics companies search for the causes of disease.
Here is the problem: Developing search engines and advertising and operating platform systems requires a more liberal, an entrepreneurial organization that allows employees to experiment with new things with little supervision.
This time around, the search giant believes that some half a million systems are still affected.
They will take specialist equipment including listening devices and camera systems which can penetrate rubble to search for trapped survivors in collapsed buildings.
Yesterday I browsed though the search engine Yandex, which is our number one search engine, and one of the major systems for such information in the world.
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Astronomers said Thursday the two planets could provide clues to how planetary systems are formed, and aid the search for extraterrestrial life.
Hans Blix , the hapless Swedish diplomat chosen by Saddam's friends on the Security Council to run the search for chemical and biological weapons and their delivery systems is demonstrating why he was tapped for the job.
But Google may be leaving out the privacy we have come to expect, with systems that monitor the digital books you search, the pages you read, how long you spend on various pages, and even what you write down in the margins.
"We started enterprise search with the ability to search a company's Intranet, then added the ability to go into databases, collaboration systems, and applications, now this, " said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director for Google enterprise search.
By mining employee business communications and tapping into corporate email, calendaring, social networks, phone systems and collaboration systems, BranchIt serves as a corporate social search engine.
And, just like other search engines, FatLens does not include extraneous capabilities such as merchant grading systems, user reviews or feature comparisons.
Mr. Pichai said in an interview that "you'll see some overlap" between Chrome and Android, but Google "views these as choices for users" and that both operating systems will help promote Google applications such as the Web-search engine.
The underground systems are the first things rats reach when breaking through the soil in search of sustenance.
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Federated, which sells advertising for its affiliated blogs, has dabbled in such "conversational marketing" initiatives before, having run similar campaigns in the past with Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and search engine Hakia.
Plus, FiOS TV DVR subscribers can search and enjoy online videos from blip.tv, Dailymotion and Veoh on their home-entertainment systems.
In offering Android for free, while competitors Apple and Microsoft keep their systems exclusive or charge for licenses, Google is driving Android growth charitably and without veering far from its search business.
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Yet, some of the most promising locations to search for ancient life on Mars are places where water may have been in contact with volcanic rocks, ancient hydrothermal systems where conditions may have been conducive to life.
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