During the Web 2.0 Summit, I got a chance to sit down with the team at Ask.com and find out more about their search engine. This was straight after a Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. Russia-based Quintura Search Engine has received substantial backing from Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg, an early-stage investor in Skype, ABRT

Disclosure: Read/WriteWeb will be going live shortly with a custom Eurekster search box. One of the big pieces of news this week has been Google's new Custom Search Engine. It's Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that this area is getting mature and Continue reading »

Google is making some bold moves to bring structured data into the mainstream search box. And in the process, it appears to be running over the top of microformats,

Blog network 9rules has developed a custom-built search engine for its members' content. I've always admired 9rules' philosophy (note: R/WW used to be a member), because they're all about original

The Animas Weblog has written a couple of interesting posts in response to Ebrahim Ezzy's Search 2.0 posts, featured on Read/WriteWeb recently (part 1 and part 2). In the first

Mitch Kapor, famous for co-founding Lotus 1-2-3 in the 80's and more recently the ambitious Personal Info Manager product Chandler (which is taking an awful long time to build -

Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This is the

Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series