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The folks behind Too Human may not have been too thrilled with Epic’s Unreal Engine 3, but that hasn’t stopped a software developer with a different mission from picking it up for its latest games. Virtual Heroes Inc. announced Tuesday that it will adopt Epic’s latest engine for its serious games, which put players into the shoes of soldiers, doctors and even astronauts.
Interesting findings from a study out today from Nielsen/NetRatings reveal that Web surfers often use search engines to visit commonly accessed sites such as eBay and Google over typing the URL directly into the address bar. 43 percent of online searches are reportedly conducted like this.
The top ten most popular search terms for November of last year was
At a Goldman Sachs investor conference in New York this week, controversial IAC/InterActivCorp CEO Barry Diller said that the famous, snazzy butler tending to Ask Jeeves search engine will be disappearing. The Jeeves character, created by P.G. Wodehouse, was made a bit trimmer and thinner (and given a tan) in 2004, but will be disappearing from the site altogether in the future. Instead, the search engine will present itself as "ask.com" or simply "Ask."
IAC completed its acquisition of Ask Jeeves in July of this year, paying $1.85 billion for the Internet search engine company.
If you’ve got a thing for the latest in search engine news and events, there’s a new podcast for you. Set to debut tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. EDT is The Daily SearchCast, hosted by Danny Sullivan and Gary Price of SearchEngineWatch.com fame.
This new podcast and live show, according to a press release, will air daily (Tuesdays-Fridays) and cover updates, recaps and news in the search engine and search engine marketing industries. Sullivan, SearchEngineWatch.com’s founder, and Price, SearchEngineWatch.com’s news editor, will alternately host radio segments featuring special guest co-hosts. The podcast will be broadcast through WebmasterRadioFM as well as the Search Engine Watch Blog.
The next time you use MSN Search, just click on the “Near Me” or “Local” buttons to get results that are close to home. The new query engine will provide users results from city and region specific directories, including personal web sites, maps and even aerial satellite images. The new MSN Local search engine is currently in Beta testing.
As of May, LGE will aggressively market the FLATRON f-Engine, which is designed to greatly enhance LCD monitor picture quality on 17- and 19-inch monitors and other premium products.
The “f”in FLATRON f-Engine represents “fine”, as well as fine color, fine image, and fine view, thus implementing a greatly enhanced picture quality.
The electronics giant uses DAFI (Digital Adaptive Fine Image) technology in the FLATRON f-Engine, which does not affect color, but enhances brightness and contrast. Initially undertaken last year,the company has just recently completed the development of the technology.
From LGE’s press release:
LGE is poised to release new digital TVs that adopt the XD Engine, a chip developed to enhance picture quality, as well as to promote the XD Engine as its premier global technology brand. The full lineup of digital TV’s will enable LGE to broaden its related domestic market base.
The XD Engine has improved on the XDRpro, the previous chip that the company developed to enhance picture quality through digital image signal treatment. The XD Engine can perfectly treat digital signals, and resolve problems due to varying signal strengths in the process of transmission, thus improving brightness and contrast two-fold.
By rolling out its expanded search engine early Tuesday, Google stole some thunder from Yahoo, which announced Wednesday that it’s ready to run its search engine without Google’s help.
Read the whole story at Globe Technology.
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