Industry News

India's first regional search engine developed
Named 'Kazhugu' the search engine has been developed by Anna University's K.B. Chandrasekar Research Centre (AU-KBC) and is ready for use on Tamil websites. [CXOToday]

End of an Overture for Pasadena
Overture Services Inc., the paid Internet search firm that became a darling of investors and the media alike, is leaving Pasadena. [Pasadena Star]

AOL breaks up into four divisions
AOL Europe has more than 6 million subscribers across the continent and made headlines when it chose Google over Overture for sponsored search functions. [NewsFactor]

Is Microsoft rolling out its search engine?
Microsoft's MSN division is planning to make an announcement today related to online-search technology, giving rise to expectations that the company will begin offering its own Internet search engine tomorrow. [Seattle Times]

Mozilla Firefox sparks browser competition
Web surfing has belonged almost exclusively to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer ever since it buried Netscape's pioneering browser. [Globe Technology]

Search engine giant doubles in size
Google's huge index has nearly doubled to a staggering 8 billion pages. The news was announced on Google's official blog by Bill Coughran, the V.P of Engineering.

Gmail starts to download messages
Google will gradually roll out Pop3 support over the coming weeks to Gmail users, allowing them to download e-mail messages from Gmail servers to e-mail applications. [ComputerWeekly]

Google Wears a Poppy
Google wears a Poppy to mark Armistice Day as an act of remembrance for every British and Commonwealth service person killed in action since the beginning of World War I.

MSN Search release set for 2005
Microsoft is to launch an 'alpha' version of its search technology this year, but does not see Yahoo being replaced as its search provider until 2005. [ZDNet]

AOL extends their Search Engine
Search Engines seems to be going the browser engines way. There are few popular engines and companies are using them with value added services to make their own. [TechWhack]