Matthew Hicks

Google has decided to remove Agence France Presse from Google News after the global news wire filed a lawsuit last week seeking to bar the display of its content on the news search engine. France-based AFP sued Google in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, alleging that Google News infringes on its copyright by […]

The two leading wiki providers are retooling their services in an attempt to attract larger enterprises to using the still-emerging form of online collaboration. In separate announcements Monday, JotSpot Inc. and Socialtext Inc. expanded their product lines and features with a focus on the enterprise. JotSpot launched JotBox, a hardware appliance version of its wiki […]

After weeks of rumors, the company behind the Flickr online photo-sharing service has confirmed that Yahoo has agreed to acquire it. A Flickr executive announced the Yahoo deal late Sunday on Flickrs Weblog, writing that Flickrs management team will remain in place and continue to pursue the release of a full Version 1.0 of the […]

SAN DIEGO—Ask Jeeves is preparing to release a related-search feature that it hopes will relieve Web searchers from the burden of repeatedly refining their queries. Executives from the Oakland, Calif., company demonstrated a prototype of the feature this week during the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference here. It will expand on an existing related-categories function by […]

SAN DIEGO—Developers who are curious about how Googles engineers compile and debug their code are getting a chance to use some of the search companys internal tools. Google Inc. introduced a developer Web site called Google Code during a presentation here Thursday at the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference. As part of the launch, it has […]

SAN DIEGO—In the quest to organize the Webs information, an emerging approach is putting the power to categorize everything from links to digital photos into the hands of users. In the halls and session rooms at the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference here, a series of talks this week explored the growing use of tags to […]

Within a day of its public debut, a Google Labs project that emulates some of the graphical elements of the Mac OS X operating system is nowhere to be found. As of Wednesday afternoon, the Web page for the project, called Google X, was unavailable. Visits to the Google X URL returned a note that […]

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday will introduce the companys strategy for entering the paid search arena with rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. The companys MSN division plans to launch the first test of its search-based advertising program in the next six months in the France and Singapore markets, said MSN Product Manager […]

SAN DIEGO—Technology soothsayers can put their predictions to the test as part of a research project merging search-query data with a virtual, online marketplace. Yahoo Inc. unveiled a project called the Tech Buzz Game during a research labs presentation Tuesday at the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference here. Players who sign up can buy and sell […]

Syndication feeds continue to gain more mainstream support as major online services experiment with ways to integrate RSS into their offerings. Microsoft Corp.s MSN division has started an early test of a Web-based RSS (Really Simple Syndication) aggregator, while Yahoo Inc. has expanded into mobile access to the news feeds gathered on its My Yahoo […]