Google has taken business and finance search and simplified it with their new Google Finance search engine. With Google Finance you can easily get details on any publicly traded company, including stock quotes, news, scrollable stock charts, company overviews, financial summaries, management bios and compensation data as well as blog and discussion forum posts.

Google Finance is a great place to start when doing online business and financial research.

You can visit Google Finance at Google Finance.

The Accoona search engine is trying to take on major search engines like Yahoo and Google by using artificial intelligence techniques to deliver more relevant search results. The Accoona search algorithms search web pages and news stories for key words and phrases based on word use and context in an attempt to return highly relevant results for the user.

Accoona also has a business search function that allows users to cross-reference search terms on Dun & Bradstreet’s database with Accoona’s own business search database to retrieve relevant business search results.

You can use the Accoona search engine @ Accoona Search Engine.

Zillow has launched the beta version of their real estate valuation search for real estate buyers, sellers and owners. The Zillow real estate search allows users to freely search for the valuation of over 60 million homes in the United States.

You can access the Zillow real estate valuation search @ Zillow Real Estate Search.

Clever job hunters are turning to corporate and employee blogs to get the inside scoop on job openings that aren’t well known outside the company, according to a recent article on chron.com

From the article –

YOU check the want ads. You network. But are you blogging?

Job seekers in the know are reading employee blogs to find out about openings that aren’t generally well-known.

In between comments on their aging dogs or the sleeping habits of their newborns, bloggers do a lot of chitchatting about work-related issues that can be a gold mine of information for job hunters.

It is an interesting article that could give you the inside edge and some excellent tips for your next job search. You can read the entire article @ Blogs emerge as resource in job hunts.

ZDNet is reporting on a Wharton Technology Conference in Philadelphia, where Google, Yahoo and MSN Search representatives voiced disagreement on the future of web search and search engines. For MSN Search the future focus is on the user interface and search form itself; for Google the focus is on the underlying technology and for Yahoo the focus appears to be on social search networks, Web 2.0 and keyword tagging by web users.

From the article –

The major search companies have expressed varying ideas on how Web searching will evolve over the next few years, with MSN claiming that there will be significant changes in the user interface of search engines and Google contending that changes in the underlying technology will be more important.

Representatives from Google, Yahoo and MSN Search came together at the Wharton Technology Conference in Philadelphia on Friday to discuss the future of search technologies.

You can read the entire article @ Google and MSN disagree on future of search.