Ask.com, the Oakland-based search engine, unveiled a service today for everyone who hates to ask for directions… “Ask.com, everybody’s favorite underdog search engine, has long made great efforts in local/mobile areas. Last May, for example, they launched Ask Mobile GPS with Sprint phones. Now they are announcing the first search-engine–sponsored voice directions on mobile phones…”

ChaCha Founder Scott Jones says the move marks ChaCha’s entry into the lucrative mobile search market… “ChaCha is repositioning itself from a Web-based search engine to become a player in the multi-million-dollar — soon to be multibillion-dollar — mobile search market…” Indianapolis — In a landmark move, on Thursday, ChaCha began inviting mobile users to […]

A class action suit covering alleged victims of click fraud and other invalid or improper clicks on online advertisements purchased from IAC Search & Media Inc. and Ask Jeeves Inc. (now Ask.com) may be resolved by a proposed settlement announced Wednesday. “Seems Lane’s Gifts are not the only ones getting money back from LookSmart and […]

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with “Real Estate TV,” the U.K.’s only property channel, to give viewers access to the best real estate video showcase on the Web today. Under the terms of the deal, the United Kingdom-based Real Estate TV’s popular online property programming will be fully searchable […]

Wikia Search, a community-driven open-source search tool, will get its first public preview on Monday, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales… “The founder of Wikipedia says taking the online encyclopedia’s collaborative approach into the field of search would not dethrone Google Inc. or another major search engine — at least not soon…” New York — Wikia […]

Mountain View, Ca. — Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world. “Under the deal, Bharti Airtel will become VeriSign’s Strategic Market Partner and will deploy VeriSign’s services in India, leveraging Bharti […]

All Five FCC Commissioners Make Unprecedented Showing at the 2008 International CES… “The Consumer Electronics Association announced that senior technology policymakers from the European Union, Japan and the United States will participate in the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)…”

Yet another Yahoo executive departs the twelve-year-old company… Just when Yahoo thought it was done with the tumultuous year of 2007, YSlow plug-in creator and Chief Performance Yahoo! Steve Souders has ditched his Sunnyvale gig, has announced that as of Jan. 7th he will be working in favor of the greener pastures around the Googleplex, […]

Beijing — Shawn Wang, chief financial officer of Baidu.com Inc., the leading Chinese search engine that can search websites, audio files, and images, has reportedly died in an accident, while on a vacation in the country that occurred on Dec. 27, the company said in a statement. “Wang died three days ago during a Christmas-New […]

After colonizing cyberspace, Google is going into the newspaper business… “Unlike Google’s venture into magazine publication ad auctions, the newspaper version called Google Print Ads has found a following in the United States. Google will try this next in Britain…”