Five things you need to know about Google Instant

So we’ve heard about the whole dodgy, alleged Anonymous-released Ubuntu-based operating system, but apparently the hacktivist group also has a search engine of choice. The Next Web spotted that the oddly named DuckDuckGo is...

A revolutionary peer-to-peer (P2P) search engine is set to challenge Google's dominance and prevent governments and other organisations from censoring the results of users' queries. YaCy (pronounced "ya see") invites ordinary...

Latest figures have revealed that Microsoft’s search engine, Bing is finding its grip in the market share, thanks to its collaboration with Yahoo Inc.According to The Tech Herald, web-based market analyst firm comScore has...

I'm usually content to stick with Google for Web searches, but I've been trying out the new blekko search engine, recently launched in beta. Blekko claims to be a better way to search the web because it supports slashtags, with...

Yahoo is rolling out changes to its internet search feature, in an attempt to gain ground in the global search engine market. The new Yahoo Search updates are designed to make the online search experience more visual and...

Google has added a new web indexing system, named 'Caffeine', to its search engine.Caffeine is designed to allow users to receive more up-to-date results for their search queries.In a blog post, Google said that the new indexing...

Google China users were faced with error messages when they tried accessing the site for queries in what has been touted as the Beijing’s rejoinder to Google’s last week blatant move in which the search company leave...

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...

In a bid to increase its dominance in the search engine market, Google has announced its intention to offer real-time search results which will include live updates of breaking news, tweets and blog content pertaining to the...

In a bid to claw back the lost share in the online search domain, Microsoft Corp. has clasped hands with search engine Wolfram Alpha to provide search results for the former’s latest foray into the search engine market,...

With the much anticipated launch of Wolfram Alpha scheduled for May 18, the creators of this natural language search engine have categorically stated that their search engine is not going to compete with Google and will instead...

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...

Google has breached the 70 percent mark in terms of queries entered by the US web searchers. According to a four-week study from Hitwise that ended on 26 July, the search engine behemoth grabbed a whopping 70.77 percent US...

A search engine that deletes all data relating to users after 48 hours has been awarded the first privacy award of a European body set up to promote privacy. The award was presented by European Data Protection Supervisor Peter...

Internet Data Cruncher Firm, Comscore has confirmed that Google's grip on the US Search market has been slightly loosened in December as the grand daddy of search lost a tiny 0.2, falling to 58.4 percent in December...