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Forget word-based search engines. Cutting-edge algorithm can hunt through online catalogues using only a sketch; researchers say technology could become mainstream so consumers could just draw to find an exact match A US-based company has created 3D-Seek: A new kind of search engine that lets...

Clocks up 3.8 billion searches in April Google accounted for 55 per cent of all search queries carried out in the US in the month of April, according to Nielsen/NetRatings data released Tuesday. Nearly 3.8 billion Google searches were carried out in the period, a 42 per cent increase on last...

Mountain View, California: Google said on Wednesday it is combining its different Web search services into one “Universal Search” service that will present Web sites, news, video and other results on one page. Universal Search means that standard Google searches will draw results from separate...

When Kolkata surgeon Subhranshu Chakraborty was asked to conduct an autopsy on a 21-year-old youth who had died of strangulation, he knew one thing for certain: it couldn't be a case of murder. The Kolkata police, however, were not so sure. Because it didn't look like suicide either. On October...

Matchmaking has always been dicey. More so when it involves connecting the right person to the right job. The Internet was supposed to simplify this. With a plethora of Web sites, falling access costs and a booming job market, the dream offer was just a click away. Unfortunately, however, so...

Bangalore: Guruji.com, founded by two Delhi IIT graduates, on Thursday launched country's first local Internet search engine, with a commitment of $7 million from a leading Indian venture capital firm. Aimed at the Indian web consumer, Guruji.com is focused on providing better search results...

San Francisco: There may be more than a billion people in India, but even an Internet superstar like Google Inc. has trouble recruiting talented locals in its South Asian operations, a board member said on Tuesday. "I know first hand that we've had a bit more of a challenge trying to hire...

Google is No. 1 search on AOL That is just a peek at Net oddities revealed in accidental release of personal data by the firm. Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Out of more than 36 million search queries that hundreds of thousands of AOL users typed into AOL's Internet search...