December, 2006
New Book Search from Live.com
The Live.com team has released a beta version of their new book search at http://books.live.com/. This release makes tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from their library scanning initiative, including books from the University of California, the University of Toronto, and the British Library. They also announced a new partnerships with the New York Public Library [...]
Ask.com launched improved Local Search
Today the search engine Ask.com has launched its new Local Search “Ask City“. The new service replaced the previous Local Search, and merged it with some third party services offered by Ticketmaster, Trip Advisor, Evite and others. Like that, you can find movie playtimes at local theaters, events and restaurantes in your area, easily. Beside of that, [...]
Baidu.com expands to Japan
The operator of the chinese search engine Baidu.com anncounced an expansion to the japanese market. According to the Wall Street Journal, Baidu started working on the japanese version of their search engine, about six month ago, and also opened an office in Tokio already. Baidu.com, is the most used search engine in china and contains more then a billion [...]
MySpace goes China
According to the Wall Street Journal, News Corp. plans to start a chinese version of its social-networking site MySpace, pretty soon. But the network, that already has more than 130 million users and regional versions for the UK, Germany, Australia, France and Japan, will face some big problems with China’s Internet censorship. Other US companies as Yahoo! or eBay already [...]