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Wall Street & Technology November 21, 2006 Cory Levine	Federated Search Providers Are Looking to Reach the Financial Services Industry A new breed of federated search technology providers is trying to gain a foothold in the financial services industry, which is in need of a way to consolidate multiple stores of disparate information.
InternetNews November 29, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Answers Ends Its Run If you have a question for Google Answers, you better hurry up and ask it. Later this week, Google will shut down the service, which allowed people to pose questions, for a fee, in the hopes of getting the perfect answer.
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates	Google As News Archivist Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of Google's News Archive search.
InternetNews November 21, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Dropping Google Bombs Against Hate Why a Google search for 'Martin Luther King' might surprise you.
Search Engine Watch November 21, 2006 Chris Sherman	How We Use the Internet for Science Research The internet is second only to television as a source of science information for most Americans, according to a new study.
Information Today November 20, 2006 Barbara Quint	Looking for the Perfect Conference? Trying to Program One? Confabb Awaits A new portal service called Confabb promises to assist all parties involved in a conference or trade show in improving their chances of making their investments pay off.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Sprint Takes Microsoft Up on Local Search Offer Web-based search is coming to your mobile phone, courtesy of Microsoft and Sprint, who have struck a deal to offer Sprint's customers Windows Live Search, which includes local maps and directions, over wireless phones.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 David Needle	Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as Partners? Competitors put aside their differences to agree on Web search standards.
Search Engine Watch November 16, 2006 Grant Crowell	Coping with Convergence: Local Search Meets Mobile and WiFi, Part 2 Consumers have huge incentive to flock to mobile search. As such, now's an excellent time for search specialists to get into the mobile search market.
Search Engine Watch November 15, 2006 Grant Crowell	Coping with Convergence: Local Search Meets Mobile and WiFi, Part 1 While many industry and internet specialists agree that a genuine convergence between technology and content for mobile searches has been achieved, many questions still remain.
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