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Study questions Google's future

The company's top spot in the search engine market could be under pressure from competitors that attempt to mimic the site and lure away advertisers, research shows. Read more »

Ad dollars for the Star Wars Kid?

Forget Google. The Internet's real killer app has always been the strange little amateur videos, like the Star Wars Kid or the Numa Numa Dance, that find explosive popularity almost overnight. Read more »

Yahoo developing an audio search engine

Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet. Read more »

Google crawls into source code search

Google is taking its search expertise to one of its favorite audiences: software developers. Read more »

Google takes Web apps offline

Google today announced the availability of a new open-source browser plug-in, Google Gears, that promises developers the ability to create applications that work within a browser -- even without Internet connectivity. Read more »

Yahoo seeks search developers for ad revenue

In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the Internet company's technology. Read more »

IE flaws allow Web ad attack

An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims' computers that triggers pop-up ads, researchers said this week. Read more »

Google tries to patent Web syndication ads

Google is claiming that it has invented a unique way to distribute online advertising via syndicated news feeds--and it wants a patent for the technology. Read more »

Singapore firm claims patent to image linking

Singapore company says it owns patent to technology used by millions of online sites worldwide to link graphics and pictures to other Web pages. Read more »

Gates: XML and SOAs are the future

Web services standards and the emergence of service-oriented architectures are showing us the direction the Internet needs to move in, according to the Microsoft chairman. Read more »

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Developer Spotlight: Jakob Nielsen

Builder AU recently caught up with usability guru Jakob Nielsen to talk about the Web, open source software, the future of 3D interfaces and mobile devices. Read more »

Use Lucene as a Web site search engine

There are lots of Web site search engines, but are they flexible enough to integrate search with your Java apps? Take a look at Lucene's solution. Read more »

Generate development documentation with the inclusion by reference method

One technique for generating software development documentation which deserves more attention is the idea of including documentation by reference. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Interview: Is SEO evil?

Continuing our Web Directions South build-up, we present an interview with Scott Gledhill. Scott is presenting a talk at the conference next week entitled "Is SEO Evil?" We talked to Scott to find out. Read more »

Designing a search-friendly Web site

By controlling the search engine indexing of your Web site, you can ensure that users trying to find your information get there easily. Read more »

Location-based publishing and services

Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »

AJAX and the Microsoft approach

Let's take a closer look at the AJAX revolution, including Microsoft's involvement and approach. Read more »

Towards a Semantic Web

The ability to interpret machine semantics on the Web is becoming crucial to many industries. Can Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web help create a new Web order? Read more »

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Blog (2)

Google going too far?

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- Google undoubtedly invents some cool stuff, but perhaps it’s time to stop acquiring or creating new technology and to spend a little time getting this stuff right. Read more »

MyPerfect.com.au has potential

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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