ACM Technews: "Search Beyond Google"

Posted on March 25th, 2004 by Sacha Chua

From ACM Technews:

Google's enormous success with its search engine—and its apparent inability to develop a follow-up innovation momentous enough to sustain the company's market dominance—is encouraging Microsoft and other companies to invent their own tools that could eventually capture a good portion of ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0324w.html#item19

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