Could today's doodle hint at HTML5 Google?

Software giant Microsoft’s Bing search engine increased its market share in the UK in July even as Google continues its domination.According to new data provided by internet research company Experian Hitwise, search engines...

A recent proposal put forth by a Conservative peer could bring upon some subtle changes in the UK’s copyright rules that would exempt search engines from any liability while creating copies of web pages in order to dispense...

Ecosia, a new search engine that has won the backing of the Worldwide Fund For Nature, is not apparently the greenest search engine on the web thanks to a number of tweaks carried out by its creators. The site, which is set to...

Google has introduced a slew of changes to its iconic search engine front page and chose to discard any "superfluous" links, leaving the user with only the search box, two buttons and the Google logo. Interestingly, Google has...

It seems that Google’s monopoly in the search engine domain is soon to be challenged by a new smart internet search engine, codenamed as “Wolfram Alpha”, developed by a British physicist Stephen...

Search Engine Google was singled out this morning as one of the biggest tech polluters as each Google search actually generates 7g of greenhouse gas and consumes on average 0.6w based on some calculations. Google has disputed...

Apple knows it, Google knows it. Mobile search is the next big thing and could potentially be much more lucrative than desktop search for a number of reasons. (1) Mobile search is still in its infancy Right now, searching on a...

Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favours Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study of...

A Google watchdog site has barked the claim that the search engine has been hacked by a spammer. The Google Watchdog says here that the spammer wormed their way into the Google index without being caught. Read more here

There's a new kid on the Internet block with a new "natural language" search engine. After nearly two years of clandestine development, startup Powerset is finally providing a peek at a technology that is supposed to...

The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by...

European privacy regulators will expand their investigation into Google's privacy practices to all search engine companies, it has said. The Article 29 Working Party, a committee of Europe's data protection watchdogs, has been...

Google is not bound by the Data Retention Directive when it comes to search engine logs, Europe's data protection committee has said. Google has used the Directive to justify keeping data, but OUT-LAW has learned that the law...

Research just released by McAfee claims to show that, whilst the overall safety risk to search engine users declined by about one per cent in the last 12 months, sponsored results are still significantly more risky than standard...

Vertical Leap, a managed search engine company, claims to have uncovered a new hacker technique to hijack a Web page to direct traffic to a hacker site.According to Gina Bray, the firm's sales director, the technique only became...