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Seekport launches UK search engine
In June Seekport launched its German search engine. Now this European search engine company adds a British search site.
(December 20 2004) Seekport is a German firm developing a new search engine for the European market. The company is already testing French and German version of its technology, and has now also launched a UK search site.
Yes, this is a genuine new search engine, with its own Internet crawlers and its own index.
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Exalead: new advanced search engine
(November 2 2004) A French company is testing a new global search engine with some very interesting advanced features. It is already powering the French version of AOL Search, but what does it have to offer the rest of us?
Lars Våge takes a look at the Exalead search engine.

Shopping search
In March Yahoo! bought the European shopping search engine Kelkoo. Yahoo! already had their own American shopping search engine, but they were clearly interested in the much better technology underpinning Kelkoo.
Yahoo! is now much better positioned vis a vis Google in the comparison shopping search market.
Google is still working on their Froogle shopping search engine. The Froogle database is partly based on data fetched by Google's spiders, crawling the Internet, and partly by data feeds provided by online merchants.
Google does not accept payment for such listings, although companies may buy text ads that accompany the regular shopping search results. The company launched a UK version of Froogle in September. We guess it will be out of beta next year.
AOL is determined to compete with Google, Yahoo! and Shopping.com in the field of comparison shopping, i.e. with a search engine that compares product prices from different shopping sites.
The new site is called in-Store, while the search engine is named Pinpoint Shopping.