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Teoma.com, a new search engine owned by Ask Jeeves, has officially launched today and offers several unique search features aimed at providing more relevant, subject-specific results. Teoma employs several techniques for determining relevancy of sites, including ranking Web sites by the number of same-subject sites that reference it, identifying experts and resources for specific subjects, and allowing users to narrow their search through refinement options.

SearchGoogle is a simple background service for Mac OS X that allows users to select text in any application and then launch a search for that text in Google with a single keystroke.

Google’s Zeitgeist, a compilation of interesting statistics from the search engine, reveals that “iMac” was the tenth most gaining query for the month of January, as noted by MacGeneration. Also during January, four percent of Google’s total searches were accessed from Macs.

Google, the popular search engine that offers a Mac-centric portal, is considering adding subscription versions, according to c|net, in order to diversify their streams of revenue. Subscription packages could be targeted at academic and corporate clients, leveraging the power of Google’s vertical search technology. Traffic to the site has tripled over the past year, as Web surfers are attracted by near-instantaneous search results and a lack of banner advertising.