Powerset Revolutionizes The Web Semantic Search San Francisco - Amid speculation that Microsoft is looking to make an acquisition, Powerset on Sunday launched tools for searching Wikipedia that use conversational phrasing instead of keywords, taking a significant step forward in its challenge to established Web search services such as Google. “It offers an innovative, rich semantic dimension via n

San Francisco -- Google Inc. said on Wednesday it is shaping out its portion of the mobile advertising market, has unveiled brand-image ads for mobile phones, in a bid to extend beyond the computer-based Web market, joining Yahoo, AOL, MSN and a host of niche players scrambling toward the next frontier in interactive advertising on phones. While mobile advertising is nothing new, Google’s main cen

San Francisco -- CNET Networks Inc., faced with troubled shareholders who want to expand the board, posted a narrower first-quarter loss on Thursday announced with a broad, multi-year strategic partnership that includes content, advertising, and search marketing components with Yahoo Inc. that will allow the Web portal to sell ads across its range of sites. “The project, planned to be launched in

Washington -- Yahoo Inc. that is still facing the heat of Microsoft’s unsolicited buyout offer has attracted the attention of many for carrying out a two-week experiment with outsourcing some of its Web-search ads to Google Inc. has drawn scrutiny from antitrust regulators, the companies said Wednesday. Interestingly, both Yahoo and Google said Wednesday that they notified the Justice Department b

San Francisco -- Investors appear ready to embrace tech giant Google Inc. again after weeks of hand wringing amid concerns over the company’s ability whether the company’s ascent would be slowed by a weakened U.S. economy. “Google’s earnings climbed up 31 percent to $1.31 billion and revenue swelled up 42 percent to $5.19 billion compared with the same period last year.” The Mountain View, Calif.,

“Microsoft announced a renewed version of live news search service this week that brings together stories, photos and video from around the world.” Microsoft clearly has not given up in its effort to improve its Internet search service and catch the runaway leader, Google, and its latest assault on everyone’s favorite data warehouse, Microsoft is tossing a fresh offering onto the scene in the form

“The engine that hosts the company’s online applications suite will shortly be available by a limited number of developers, for testing their own Web services at their own pace...on Google’s servers.” San Francisco -- In an exceedingly plausible move yesterday, Google Inc. took the wraps off a new hosted software platform offering developers access to its application servers, to the first 10,000 d