The product, licensed from a pioneering startup named X1 Technologies, seeks to cure a common computer-induced headache by making it as quick and easy to find digital information offline as it has become online.

Bill Gross, the driving force behind commercial search pioneer Overture Services, is once again swinging for the fences in Web search.

As Americans get into ball games, concerts, vacations and blockbuster summer movies, their Web traffic reflects those popular interests.

Google Inc., the Internet search engine, has acquired Picasa Inc., which makes technology to help consumers organize and display photos online.

As we become more dependent on e-mail and information in the files on our PCs, being able to locate messages and documents becomes ever more important. Unfortunately, the search tools built into Windows and most e-mail programs are extremely slow and often lack many useful features. That's where X1 Search 3.0 comes in.

With consumers expected to snap up nearly 60 million digital cameras this year, Web sites that help shutterbugs share their photos electronically are proliferating.

Collaboration services provider Intranets.com jumped into the increasingly competitive Web-conferencing market.