Matthew Hicks

Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday confirmed that it has begun its switch from Google Inc.s search technology to its own search algorithm. As eWEEK.com previously reported, Yahoo had begun integrating non-Google search results into its Yahoo Search site this week and launched a new Web crawler, called Yahoo Slurp, to index Web pages. Yahoo said that […]

Yahoo Inc. this week is revving its search technology as it prepares for a promised switch away from partner Google Inc.s search results. Search engine marketers, who watch the variations in search listings like hawks, said on Tuesday that they had begun seeing a large amount of results from the Yahoo Search site coming from […]

Google Inc. on Tuesday upped the ante in the increasingly competitive search-engine market, announcing that it has increased its venerable Web index to 6 billion Web pages, images and other documents. In its core search area, Web sites, Google said that it had increased the number of Web pages in its index to 4.28 billion, […]

With portions of Microsoft Windows NT and 2000 source code running wild on the Internet, programmers are battling the temptation to peek at the operating systems code. Doing so, legal experts warn, could thrust developers and their software projects into a legal hotbed. “Theres no legitimate reason to look at it,” said Phil Albert, a […]

SAN DIEGO—A startup companys online multiplayer game has spawned a new way to share and collaborate on the Web that melds elements of instant messaging, group chat and social networking. Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. unveiled its Web collaboration application, called Flickr, during a preview this week for attendees of the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference […]

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft Corp.s Research organization is preparing to publicly release in a few weeks the client application for its Aura research project, a researcher told attendees of the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference here. Research Sociologist Marc Smith, demonstrating Aura during his keynote presentation, explained that the project uses mobile devices to interact with physical objects […]

SAN DIEGO—eBay Inc. is expanding its developer program to support more Web services protocols and programming languages, the company announced on Tuesday during the OReilly Emerging Technology Conference being held here. eBays announcement meshed with one of the key themes outlined during the opening day of the conference: That major Web players such as eBay, […]

Opera Software ASA, an Oslo, Norway, maker of Web browser software, is planning to go public next month. Opera announced on Monday that its board of directors has decided to apply for a public listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The news came as the company reported a 54 percent increase in earnings for 2003 […]

Macromedia Inc. on Monday announced plans to bolster its Web conferencing software with new collaboration features and greater integration with enterprise applications. The San Francisco-based company said it will release an update to the online meeting platform, Breeze 4.0, in March. It marks Macromedias latest push into an increasingly competitive market against leaders WebEx Communications […]

The Mozilla Foundation on Monday renamed its standalone Web browser to avoid confusion with another open-source development project. Mozilla, of Mountain View, Calif., announced that it changed the browsers name from Mozilla Firebird to Mozilla Firefox. At the same time, the open-source project released updates to Firefox as well as its standalone e-mail application, named […]