By Notess, Greg R Ask added links to its privacy policy on its front page. It bought Lexico, which runs Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The source for map and satellite data for both Ask Maps & Directions and AskCity is now Microsoft Virtual Earth.

Why is Google (GOOG) still looking over its shoulder? The search giant has just locked up a deal with Yahoo! (YHOO) to run search-related text ads on its closest competitor's American and Canadian sites. That leaves Microsoft (MSFT) as Google's largest rival, with just 6% of all U.S.

By Furness, Victoria Analysis The launch of Wikia Search (http:// alpha.search.wikia.com/) in January was hardly the glorious celebration its founder, Jimmy Wales, would have wanted.

By David Williamson Senedd Correspondent THE dominance of internet search engine Google could be challenged by a rival based on users' personal website recommendations, Welsh technology experts predicted last night.

IMAGINE a search engine freed from the boundaries of only text- based results. IMAGINE an integrated search that brings back results no matter the medium.