Google. (Internet Search Engine Update).(Buys Applied Semantics)(Brief Article)

Google has purchased Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo). While this purchase appears to be more related to Google's role as an advertising agent, particularly for its content-targeted advertising, there may be some future impact on the search side as well. Google News has expanded beyond the U.S. and now is available at the international Google sites for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and the U.K. The other news sites show different stories on its front page, but search results are the same in each and still are limited to English-language sources. Google News no longer supports advanced syntax like cache: (to pull up a cached news story) or site: (to limit to a specific publication). For title searching, intitle: still works.