Scouring the Web for information in all its various forms, on everything from videos to images, is becoming faster and easier. Could this new rise in search tools and navigational technologies be a threat to Google's dominance?
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ALL SPECIAL REPORTS
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 - Reintermediation
For the legions of Internet users contributing to new "human-assisted search" sites, no job is too small.
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When Jim Gray failed to return from a trip on his yacht, executives at Amazon, Sun, Oracle, Google, Microsoft and other companies organized an intense private search that has since changed the search process and what can be accomplished using the Internet. Read More
- Surfing TV on the Internet
- Video-search company Blinkx is offering a new, easy tool for finding full-length TV shows online.
- Google Pledges Transparency, Debuts New Gadgets
- In an overture to the press and analysts, the company put its executives on stage and unveiled new search-related products.
- Google's Private Lives
- Its new desktop search application would make your personal files available for government searches without your knowledge.
- The Search for Voice Activation
- Google's voice interface patent gives life to rumors that voice-actived mobile search will soon be a reality.
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- Tracking Down a Tune
- A new website is tackling a tough problem: searching for songs based on hums.
- Google: Beyond Good and Evil
- With its "Don't be evil" motto, the search giant strives to be the choirboy of corporate America. The problem: good and evil are in the eye of the beholder.
- Googling for Code
- Will Google's new search tool improve software?
- Why AOL Matters
- When it comes to online video delivery, the venerable Web portal holds a couple of trump cards.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology