FTIT November 7 2001 - Search engine industry Problems multiply a hundredfold Apart from tough technical challenges, the quest for investors in wireless search systems could prove frustrating |  Read The key to successful searches An important use of taxonomies in the corporate world is to support the 'reasoning' that allows knowledge management functions, such as storage, to be partially automated |  Read Wide range of taxonomy vendors Most portal and intranet software technologies today include content categorisation functionalities, but there is also a wide range of "pure play" vendors, large and small |  Read Quest to mine the far corners of the web Faced with an array of different sources, cultures and languages, search companies face a Herculean task |  Read Web vendors face big shakeout Search engines may be indispensable for internet surfers, but profitable business models remain elusive |  Read Cooking the search engine books There’s widespread disapproval at search engines manipulation, although most are sanguine about so-called search engine optimisation |  Read XML finds answers to search questions From its humble start as an esoteric standards initiative, extensible mark-up language (XML) has become a powerful new way for searching the web |  Read