Search Engine Wars

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Search Sites Play a Game of Constant Catch-Up

By SAUL HANSELL

Published: January 31, 2005

Last Monday, Google representatives called analysts and reporters to trumpet a new service that searches the transcripts of television broadcasts. Yahoo, Google's rival, got wind of the announcement and within hours, its publicity machine had bolted into action to say it had a similar service in the works.

Perhaps the fiercest competition on the Internet these days is among sites offering new ways to search through more information. Yahoo and Microsoft each have hundreds of engineers trying to challenge Google's leadership, and dozens of minor players are trying to find ways of getting their services noticed. ...So far, all this innovation has yet to shake Google from its perch at the top of the search market, although its growth in market share has slowed....

You can read the full story at the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/technology/31google.html