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...think of your computer as a digital version of the couch that swallowed your car keys--with photos, songs and travel plans all buried in hard-to-reach places--a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search--Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL--have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president...
...behind the legendary howl in Iowa parodies himself in a new radio ad promoting Yahoo. "Next week I'm doing a book signing in OHIO!" he shrieks and then goes on to yell the names of other states. Can this man run the Democratic Party...
...paging company in 1998 and, with four friends and total combined savings of $120,000, started the company. Ma did just about everything himself, from designing websites to mopping the floor. Tencent's break came in 1999, when it launched its QQ instant-messaging service. Today, despite competition from Yahoo! and Microsoft, QQ boasts 74% market share in China. Profits rose 44%, to $40 million, in the first nine months of this year. But Ma hasn't abandoned his tech-geek lifestyle--except for one thing: "I don't sweep the floors anymore," he says with a laugh. --By Michael...
...Others argue that RSS will have to become easier for the less?tech savvy to use if it's ever going to hit the big time. Right now, users must download and install software onto their PCs before they can read RSS feeds. Yahoo! may already be working on a fix. Although it has not confirmed its plans, Yahoo! acquired Oddpost, a San Francisco RSS company, in July, and could use the firm's technology to integrate RSS into the popular Yahoo! Mail service. Early next year, Apple plans to release a new version of its Safari Web browser, complete...
Over the summer, Yahoo! Mail expanded its free account storage space to 100 MB from 10 MB in an effort to retain users. Hotmail embarked on a similar move and now has a 250 MB capacity...