A man fell into a deep pit and died while exploring a treacherous cave in southeastern Kentucky on Wednesday, officials said.
Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. boosted their share of Internet searches in November, mostly at the expense of Yahoo Inc., a research company said Wednesday.
A person with knowledge of the decision says Louisville is expected to hire Florida associate coach Charlie Strong as its new football coach.
Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google's search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what's happening on the Web.
Now that Bank of America Corp. is freeing itself from the government restrictions that hampered its search for a new CEO, the company should look more appealing to prospective candidates, especially those from outside the company.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick could be hitting the road soon to find a replacement for fired coach Charlie Weis.
It's a choice most of us don't have to make: lingerie or loyalty?
Bank of America is having such a hard time finding a new CEO that some analysts are wondering if Ken Lewis might have to stay past his planned Dec. 31 departure.
Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site.
The U.S. Olympic Committee picked the team that will search for a new CEO, hoping to replace Stephanie Streeter by the end of the year.
A team of Bigfoot enthusiasts is hoping to find the legendary creature in the bogs and barrens of a West Virginia wilderness area.
A mother's confession that she and her husband faked their 6-year-old son's disappearance in a runaway balloon shouldn't have been made public, an attorney for the father said.
Twitter Inc. is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what's on people's minds at any given moment.
Boston Red Sox coaches Brad Mills and Tim Bogar interviewed with the Houston Astros on Monday for the manager's job.
Google Inc.'s sites continued to account for the vast majority of the U.S. search market in September, with rival Microsoft Corp.'s sites seeing a slight gain from August, according to comScore Inc.
Bob Melvin sees the Houston Astros being in better shape than the Diamondbacks were when he became their manager in November 2004.
Bank of America Corp. said Friday it created a six-member committee of directors to find a successor for CEO Ken Lewis.
Google Inc. is giving Web surfers a few more ways to refine their search results, signaling its resolve to ward off rival Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive campaign to lure traffic.
The second man inside a New Jersey house when a gun battle broke out and left four police officers wounded has been charged with obstruction.
The number of “discouraged workers” — individuals who have given up the job search — have reached an all-time high. But putting your job search on hold will only delay success.
Yahoo Inc. will keep innovating in search and try to outsmart both Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. even as the slumping Internet company prepares to lean on rival Microsoft's search technology.
Investment banker Ryan Jenkins was a VH1 reality show contestant, but he hasn’t been seen since the body of his model wife was found stuffed in her own suitcase. Police believe that he may have fled to Canada.
Microsoft is hoping that a long-term partnership with rival Yahoo will give it the size and insight it needs to bring in more traffic, more advertisers and ultimately more revenue.
Internet search engines have become everybody’s favorite friend and confidante, acting as a automated repository of answers for just about any kind of question, no matter how strange.
Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company's co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s.
Should airport security strip search a 90 year old from Iceland or should they concentrate on young men from Islamic countries? On Christmas day 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to bring down the airplane he was on with a chemical explosive he carried on his body.
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Verizon has unilaterally updated user Storm 2 BlackBerries and other smartphones so that their browser search boxes can only be used with Microsoft Bing. The move is part of the five-year search and advertising deal Verizon signed with Microsoft in January for a rumored $500m.
Data-mining deals signed in October will bring in $25 million in exchange for rendering Twitter's tweets searchable on Google and Microsoft Bing.
12/15/2009 - CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan (AFNS) -- A soldier is wounded during a joint British and Afghanistan National Army patrol in Helmand Province. Shot through both legs, his condition worsens while being cared for by the medics.
Maricopa County Deputies go house to house searching for information from county employees and others connected to a dispute between Sheriff and County Leaders.
- Utah police are putting more investigators into the search for a 28-year-old mother whose disappearance has been termed "highly suspicious."
Police say 13-year-old Rock Falls girl missing since Monday was taken from her school by her mother's 43-year-old boyfriend.
Dane County authorities have confirmed that the body found in a vehicle near Cottage Grove is that of Tyrone Adair, the man suspected of killing two women and two children late last week.
The deal, first reached in July, still needs to be approved by the U.S. government before it becomes final.
Bergen's traditional Christmas decoration – a gingerbread village – has been crushed, literally, by vandals who covered the crumbled ruins with paint and foam from a fire extinguisher.
One of the couple is diabetic. Anything could have happened. If their car became disabled, this is a life-threatening situation. I hope they are found soon.
A school district employee in Gilbert, Ariz., resigned after being accused of downloading software on school computers that seeks out alien life, Phoenix television station KPHO reported.
Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read through Google, the company has announced. The concession follows claims from some media companies that the search engine is profiting from online news pages.
To me, it's not a choice between one and the other - it's about integration. * Twitter is great for discovering what people are talking about. * Google Reader is great for discovering what they think.
The internet search giant, Google, says 14,000 images of the precious artefacts kept in Iraq's National Museum will be available online from early next year. Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said the world should see Iraq's rich heritage and contribution to culture.
Spokesman Scott Rubin would not elaborate on how the image ended up as the number-one result for the first lady.
Yahoo is ready to step up the pace in the race to provide the best real-time news. Today the Web giant rolled out improved search results for news stories, including a tab for Twitter results that includes relevant videos shared by Twitter users.
It's back, the prospect that Microsoft might try to make Rupert Murdoch happy by offering a "get listed with Bing" exclusive deal. Later, I'll revisit the topic in a coordinated fashion.
Google holds 71% of the search market; Bing, 10% (chart).
Two men were arrested Monday night - including one man who police say pretended to be a fugitive - after an hourlong chase that took officers through the streets and backyards of a south Redding neighborhood.
EDINBURG — A police department's gift of fruit to a Texas prison turned out to contain 25 pounds of marijuana. The illegal harvest that was missed in an earlier search was discovered by inmates at the Segovia Unit unpacking the crate.
11/10/2009 - MOFFETT FEDERAL AIRFIELD, Calif. (AFNS) -- California Air National Guard members based here successfully demonstrated coalition personnel recovery operations using net enabled data link capabilities during the U.S. Joint Forces Command Exercise Bold Quest 2009 Oct.
Looks like Bing's September market share decline (as calculated by Hitwise) was more an anomaly than anything else.
Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet. The challenges are more operational than technical and the payoff is efficiency.