Clint Boulton

Coveo Solutions has become the latest company to upgrade its enterprise search, launching a platform with distributed indexing and tighter integration with Microsofts SharePoint collaboration suite, among other perks. Speedier searching is the key upgrade to Coveo Enterprise Search 5.0. The software uses index “mirrors” to synchronize data located in various geographic locations into one […]

Allowing third-party programmers to build applications on top of social networking platforms is increasingly becoming table stakes for businesses that want to sustain themselves in a burgeoning market, according to experts who follow the space. When Facebook opened its platform for outside development in May, it triggered speculation that other Internet companies would follow suit […]

AOLs decision to lay off 2,000 workers to realign the companys cost structure is the latest move for a company that wants to get lean and mean to mix it up with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the online advertising space. AOL CEO Randy Falco, who unveiled the layoffs in an internal memo leaked to […]

Months after promising tools that will help weed out copyrighted material on YouTube, Google today launched the beta of its YouTube Video Identification tool for pinpointing pirated content. “Video Identification is the next step in a long list of content policies and tools that we have provided copyright owners so that they can more easily […]

I’ve been reading a lot of googly-eyed blog posts on how Google has married YouTube videos with Google Earth. So, when you click on a location, you could see video supplied by others tracking that ski slope in Colorado, or the ocean in Hawaii. Now that’s what I call a collaborative Web experience! Kudos, Googlers. […]

Can anything go wrong for Google? Two Reuters reports on the legal front for Google are framed in the search vendor’s favor. First, Reuters said the European Union’s data watchdog will wait until 2008 to decide whether Google and other search engines are violating EU privacy laws by the way they mine data to better […]

Say all of the speculation proved true and Google released its own branded phone. Would you buy it? One hundred out of 500, or 20 percent, of people surveyed said they would be interested in purchasing a Google phone, according to results released Oct. 11 by The Kelsey Group. Kelsey asked 500 current mobile phone […]

Google captured roughly 60 percent of the searches conducted worldwide in August, blowing away the field with 37.1 billion of 61 billion queries, according to new statistics from comScore. Five billion of Googles August searches came from the Mountain View, Calif., companys video property YouTube.com. Yahoo sites ranked second with 8.5 billion worldwide searches, while […]

Google is expanding the reach of its enterprise search technology to give users of corporate intranets and customer Web sites more effective search results. The search vendor announced on Oct. 10 that it had enhanced its search appliance to find and aggregate any objects sitting in enterprise content management systems, as well as its own […]

Blinkx, which has made its name as the platform for video searches behind Ask.com, InfoSpace and Lycos, has worked out a way for consumers to make money through its AdHoc ad-serving platform. Beginning Oct. 10, AdHoc will allow consumers to search for videos they want, grab them and drop them into their blog or some […]