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We wrote about Abdur Chowdhury in our recent coverage of the Open Data 2007 Workshop. Until recently he was running AOL Search, but left to start a new venture. Abdur

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. During DEMOfall 06, we wrote about about the Retrevo vertical search engine for electronics. Retrevo is one of the more advanced

Spotted tonight by John Milan, Google has a promotion for its online shopping product Google Checkout on its homepage - probably the most traffiked web page in the world. Also

Y Combinator's getting pretty fancy with their very detailed Request for Startups idea, which was somewhat like their "Startups We'd Like to Fund" post of yesteryear. Basically, rather than suffer

This week saw Facebook Connect open its doors to the broader world, on the same day that Google Friend Connect launched its public beta. This was the kind of day

Just before the holidays, we reported that, based on the raw traffic to its site, Amazon looked to be well on its way to having a great Christmas season. According

In a quick succession of announcements, Amazon released a set of hosted e-commerce payment services, as well as an update to its Mechanical Turk service. The payment service, Checkout by

Tonight I stumbled upon what appears to be a brand new User Interface for Ask.com. I was doing some searches on Ask.com, when I noticed a link in the top

The Read/WriteWeb team is a little obsessed with next-generation search, even more so after Charles Knight's illuminating post outlining 100 alternative search engines. Although Pixsta didn't make that list (note

According to the results of a new survey by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, Google's users are extremely happy with their search engine. Google scored 86 points out of a