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It's kind of surprising to think that for most of the 1990s, very large corporations fought for the privilege of helping us search the Web. After all, there was no money in it, at least not directly--searching is free. Everybody assumed that one day somebody would figure out...
Meanwhile, onetime search leader Yahoo is spending a fortune on mounting a comeback. Yahoo bought Inktomi, a top-flight algorithmic search engine, in March for $235 million. In October it swallowed Overture, which specializes in so-called paid search (we'll get to that later), for $1.63 billion--while Overture...
Google's most enigmatic foe isn't a search engine at all. It's a bookstore. In October Amazon debuted a service it calls Search Inside the Book that's both simple in conception and staggering in its implications. Amazon scanned every page of 120,000 books into a database...
U.S. sales of Vespa have grown at double-digit rates since Italian scootermaker Piaggio reintroduced the small bike Stateside in 2000. The company has sold nearly 5,800 so far this year, up 43% from 2002. In November the company added the bigger Granturismo (GT) to court wealthy, first-time...
Hydrogenics, based in Mississauga, Ont., is also working to bring the fuel cell to market, though its products are big enough to power a car--or a tank. Hydrogenics and General Motors (which owns about a quarter of the Canadian firm) are developing for the Army a fuel-cell-diesel...