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At Powerset, they call it 'natural language search'. We call it a $12 million homage to the days of the butler at Ask Jeeves, when that search engine proved more useful for entertainment value than actual quality search results.

This week, comScore Networks released the first in its latest series of studies geared at examining the online shopping activity of European citizens throughout the holiday season.

The partnership between Amazon.com and Microsoft for search services has led to a massive overhaul of the functionality for A9.com, the search engine operated by Amazon.

Gays and lesbians are more likely than heterosexuals to make travel arrangements online, according to a new poll by Harris Interactive. What's more, the gay community is several times more likely to cite fair treatment in their top three most important considerations for choosing hotels.

Google has established an office on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University, the latest in its development of operations in Arizona.

Amazon.com's Alexa unit has been turned into a web service, to allow developers API access to the search engine's database.

Newsweek magazine's web site will work with blog search engine Technorati to provide links and integration of blog content into stories.

Lots of buzz in the blogosphere and in mainstream media about the news today that Microsoft will be building support for RSS into Longhorn, the next release of the Windows operating system due in late 2006, and not only in the next version of Internet Explorer.