It now has 70 engineers working on search technology, and by some accounts it could triple that staff.
And of course, you're familiar with our investments in enhanced search technology through Panama.
This week Facebook announced its new search technology that a lot of us knew was coming.
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It was unclear whether any search technology from Yahoo is powering Etao's search services.
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For starters, most users are now satisfied with the state of search technology, Davis says.
Its Teoma search technology has a 25% share in North America, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
"They had mediocre search technology before that, " says Safa Rashtchy, analyst at US Bancorp Piper Jaffray.
Japan announced that it is switching to the Google search engine as the back-end search technology.
Sohu Chief Technology Officer Wang Xiaochuan said Sohu is talking with Alibaba about providing search technology for Etao.
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Sina is using its own search technology instead, after having announced a partnership with Google back in 2007.
Use enterprise search technology to ensure the corporate left hand knows what the corporate right hand is doing.
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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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It is overwhelmed when it must do the same for intangibles such as search technology, software, or drug patents.
Branded ads and licensing its search technology to other sites, including Hotbot and Infospace, accounted for another 37% of revenue.
The companies already have a substantial partnership, with Bing providing search technology to Yahoo and Yahoo supplying traffic to Bing.
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Since May Microsoft has been reimbursing people up to half of the value of items they buy using its search technology.
"We are way ahead of Google in our search technology, " he crows.
Some speculated that Ask was becoming a bland portal site, dropping its own search algorithm in favor of licensing Google's search technology.
In 1995 a venture-capitalist friend had just invested in a new web-search technology and needed someone to turn it into a business.
Big cellular carriers such as Vodafone, SingTel, Australia's Telstra and several companies in Japan already embed FAST's contextual search technology in their networks.
"You can't do any testing when Ebay changes its search technology and fees all the time, " says former Ebay seller and consultant Randy Smythe.
The internet company, which has also announced a 28% fall in profits, is using Microsoft's search technology in a bid to improve advertising revenue.
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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Apostolos Gerasoulis, executive vice president of search technology at Google competitor Ask.com is equally pessimistic about the search industry's battles with Webmasters who manipulate results.
For a company that has built its strategic lead, and lofty market cap, on best-of-breed search technology, this is a major weakness in Google's video-search offering.
The company uses a patented algorithm and search technology, and actively monitors job quality to provide a real-time snapshot of all job openings available right now.
Its algorithms have so far been directed only at websites, but it plans to deploy its search technology to help people find their own documents as well.
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.
Sure, there are strategic threats facing Microsoft open-source software and Google's superior search technology, in particular but when Mr Ballmer sent an e-mail to employees recently, it was about cost-cutting.
"Search technology is valuable but the next generation of search is going to be about premium content and the interface that users have to that content, " he said.
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