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Recent reports on search engine market share show almost complete dominance by Google, with its share hovering around 90%. What's more, the next two engines--Bing and Yahoo Search--are, in effect, [...]

It seems unlikely that people will give up their reliance on general-purpose search engines or their practice of beginning a search using Google or one of its competitors. But people [...]

ON June 17, 2013, Questel (www.questel.com) introduced Orbit 1.8. As the version number implies, this is not a completely new platform, but it is not, as old-timers might assume, an [...]

Providing business, patent, and R&D information on pipeline drugs in an end-user preferred format to a multispecialist team poses a challenge. And that doesn't include the efforts required for setting […]

I know I'm stubborn, obstinate, contrary, and any other synonyms the thesaurus has for those who march to a different drummer and make no apologies. If everyone likes a movie, […]

Coda 1. 0 RATING: GOOD1/2 price: $99 company: Panic URL: www.panic.com If you're a Mac-based Web developer, you probably have a regular set of working tools: a text editor, an […]

Macworld's editors are both fans and critics of Spotlight, Tiger's advanced search technology. Most of our complaints revolve around Spotlight's interface--it makes performing simple searches difficult, it doesn't make more-advanced […]

Google Instant is game-changer in a search market that had grown relatively stale, but it also threatens to disrupt the search engine optimization marketers have carefully cultivated. Real-time indexing and [...]

Enterprise search is much like air and water: Users expect it to be available without a second thought. Google and ISYS continue to perfect their enterprise offerings to do just […]

InfoWorld first looked at Splunk in a preview of the Splunk Server, where it was dubbed "like Google for log files." That simile is especially apt: Google freed us from […]

Financial companies are realizing that just as online banking needs support from other channels, search-engine marketing works best with help from other kinds, online and off. 'Search-engine marketing is a [...]

Let me open my kicking the tires of Google's new desktop application by saying that I love desktop search programs like a fat man loves doughnuts. Although, I'm one of […]

Even the best Web search engines deliver so many hits that users overlook relevant documents or find it too bothersome to explore a subject further. Alas, many attempts to hone […]

Most Web users would probably agree that few Web sites take site search capabilities seriously. And if sites aren't working hard to make sure their search is accurate and helpful, […]

Verity Inc. has continued to make slow-and-steady improvements to its Ultraseek search product--the recent release of Version 5.2 is only the second new edition since Verity acquired Ultraseek from Inktomi […]

Searching is all the rage right now, with pitched battles among Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. As I write this, Google's stock price has reached the irrationally exuberant […]

A comparative analysis of desktop search tools is presented that are released recently by companies Microsoft, Google, Ask Jeevs, Yahoo and ISYS etc. Yahoo! is picked as the best available desktop search tool in the market for its high performance and simplicity. The software is a free download and has best mix of file support than any other competing software.

A comparative analysis of desktop search tools is presented that are released recently by companies Microsoft, Google, Ask Jeevs, Yahoo and ISYS etc. Yahoo! is picked as the best available desktop search tool in the market for its high performance and simplicity. The software is a free download and has best mix of file support than any other competing software.

I ADMIT IT: I'M ALL ABOUT CONVENIENCE AND EFFICIENCY. I like things to be as easy and as trouble-free as possible (that's why I use a Mac, right?). In my […]

****; donation requested; Arne Martin Aurlien; safarikeywordsearch.aurlien.net Sometimes I want to search a specific site--say, IMDb or Wikipedia. It seems like a waste of time to have to go to [...]

When I think of search engines to use for a research project, Microsoft's Bing (www.bing.com) usually rates down there with Kosmix and Ask.com--the sites I go to just so I [...]

Aardvark has taken a different tack with search than the Googles of the world. The online service figures that sometimes it's more productive to ask an actual person a question […]

Serendipity is to procrastination as Doug Flutie's final-second game-winning touchdown pass securing Boston College's 1984 victory over the University of Miami is to imminent defeat--a Hail Mary that saves the [...]

RATING: [GOOD] 1/2 PRICE: $15 COMPANY: mekentosj.com URL: macworld.com/4974 Switching between search engines is a little confusing in the initial version of this mobile research manager and search tool. Still, […]

One of my favorite tasks as a college journalism instructor was killing off Dolly Parton at the start of every semester. Well, not really--at the beginning of every term, I […]

I have never been a fan of metasearch engines. I find that unless I am looking for a truly unusual word or concept, I get less-relevant results than if I [...]

IF YOU'RE READY for a new take on Web searching, a bunch of beta services are set to offer novel ways to search and to organize your results. Imagine stacking […]

IMAGE-SEARCH SPECIALISTS SUCH as Picsearch couldn't best the accuracy and clear interface of Google's top-scoring image-search component. Average SERVICE score Comments Google Image Search 23 Great attention to detail. Below […]

NO NEWS-SEARCH SERVICE beats Google's timeliness, which is everything when it comes to hearing stories first. Average SERVICE score Comments Google 19 Comprehensive listings of local and national news sources, […]

IN OUR TESTS, variation among the top four general Web search engines was minor, with Microsoft's Live Search coming in a distant fifth; Ask.com finished two points behind Live Search […]

Google brings all the searching power of its Web based search engine to your office network with the Google Mini. We tested the latest version of the Mini on our […]

Webaroo is a product which allows you to browse for content without being connected to the Web, and could completely change the way you use the Internet. And best of […]

Google is now the 800-pound gorilla among search engines, but it won't necessarily continue to be this way forever. In recent issues, I've reviewed intriguing search engines, including Grokker (October […]

Microsoft is offering some interesting new features in its latest crack at Web search: Windows Live Search. A few of the changes in this beta version seem a little gimmicky, […]

SEARCHING STILL HAS a blind spot. If you need to find something on the Internet, Google has you covered. If you want to dig up something on your hard drive, […]

For complete reviews of the products listed here, visit www.macworld.com/reviews. GOOD 1/2 Advanced Web Ranking Professional 4.1 ($149; standard version, $59), from Caphyon (www.advancedwebranking.com): Webmasters whose sites depend on traffic […]

Google Mini Search Appliance (www.google.com/ enterprise/mini) CNET'S RATING: 7.0 Very good THE GOOD: Easy to set up; reasonably priced; crawls many common file types; highly customizable THE BAD: Awkwardly situated [...]

FIGURING OUT what keywords to use for a Web search has always been a challenge. And once you get your results, you have to guess which link will have the […]

FEW THINGS are more frustrating than trying to find a data file, image, e-mail, or MP3 on a cluttered computer. Even the most fastidious person is capable of forgetting where […]