SEO company Conductor continues their work in social good through another free webinar for non-profits through their Conductor Foundation. This gave us a strong foundation to open an office, and today we have an office with sales, customer success...
YaCy, a German search company brought into being by the FreeSoftwareFoundation of Europe (FSFE) has released a peer-to-peer search engine that uses networked systems to index the web and deliver search results.
In recent months Google has not only recruited several key people from the Mozilla Foundation (the Firefox people) but is still looking for more Firefox engineeers. So, needless to say Google and Firfox/Mozilla Foundation are very close.
Answers.com Creates One-Click Answers Tool for Wikipedia Content - Word from Answers.com that they have partnered with the Wikipedia Foundation to use Answers.com's 1-Click Answers technology to create a co-branded version of Answers.com to be...
Inktomi has been very good for cofounder Eric Brewer, and now he's giving back by forming and funding a foundation to produce a site to provide access to US government information. Yahoo Europe has now switched from Espotting's paid listings to...
If Google is "the biggest privacy invader on the planet," as a former CTO of the Privacy Foundation puts it, then so is Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, at the very least. The London show in June will have sessions about targeting the UK and Europe, as well...
Removing a redirected URL - Breaking Google dependency - Mozilla Foundation, impact on ODP? As for Europe, the Nielsen NetRatings European Search Engine Ratings page (http://searchenginewatch.com/reports/article.php/2156441) has been updated with...
Researchers Develop Techniques For Computing Google-style Web Rankings Up To Five Times Faster National Science Foundation Press Release, May 14, 2003 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/05/030514080352.htm
I suspect FAST will be the foundation technology, but Meisel wouldn't say either way. My assessment has been that in reality, Overture will likely build off of one technology as the main foundation but enhance this with techniques and knowledge...
Bugnosis http://www.bugnosis.org/ A free utility from the Privacy Foundation that detects "web bugs," code that can be attached to "invisible" web graphics on a web page and used to track your browsing activity.