Ask.com, the search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, is adding a new data center in Moses Lake, located in Eastern Washington. This new data center is eco-friendly and will support Ask.com’s growing search queries and provide additional processing power for the search engine, as well as Ask3D. [Read more…]
Ingram Micro, the world’s largest distributor of technology products, has signed an international distribution deal with Google Enterprise to distribute to Google Mini and the Google search appliance to small and medium sized business (the SMB market). [Read more…]
Lycos is teaming up with the video search engine blinkx to fully integrate the blinkx functionality on the Lycox MIX Platform. On mix.lycos.com, you’ll now be able to create video playlists, as well as search for and view video results powered by blinkx within MIX–without ever having to leave the site. [Read more…]
InfoSpace is partnering with blinkx video search to allow users to search over 12 million hours of television and video clips across the InfoSpace family of meta search engines, which includes Dogpile.com. The meta search results from Dogpile include results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Ask.com. [Read more…]
Qunar.com, the biggest travel search engine in China, has launched their “travel deals search”. This search tool allows you to search for just about all travel services imaginable–everything from airline tickets to hotels to complete travel packages. [Read more…]
The vertical search engine Healia, a health search engine that specializes in finding high-quality and personalized health information, has been acquired by Meredith Corporation. Meredith is one of the USA’s leading media and marketing companies whose businesses center around magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing, and interactive media. The actual terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. [Read more…]