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• Ixquick slams EU proposal to store search traffic

  Global search engine, Ixquick, has slammed the European Government’s proposal to retain all Internet search traffic as part of an alleged crack-down on paedophiles.

• Google moves encrypted search to a new site

  Google's encrypted search engine, launched in May, has moved to a new Web address that isn't as convenient as its original one but that gives organisations the option to block the site for their users without locking them out of other Google services.

• Google moves its encrypted search

  If you're paranoid about snoops discovering your Web search terms and results, you'll have to start pointing your browser to another URL to use Google encrypted search.

• Microsoft's Bing turns up the heat in war with Google

  Microsoft fired another salvo as its battle against <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136345/Google_Update">Google</a> for <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142593/Google_and_Microsoft_to_escalate_war_in_2010">search turf</a> heated up this week.

• Let Bing's New Features Entertain You

  To give Bing a boost, Microsoft's bringing in the muscle of its modest entertainment empire.

• Reports: Google working on news, music services

  Google is developing services to let consumers pay for access to news articles and songs through individual purchases and subscriptions, according to various news reports.

• Microsoft to boost Bing's music, TV, movies, game search

  Microsoft will unveil new features next week to enhance the Bing search engine's capabilities to search for entertainment-related content, specifically in areas such as music, television, movies and online games.

• Google's Commerce Search gives admins more control

  Google will unveil on Thursday what it calls significant improvements to Commerce Search, a cloud-hosted search service that online retailers can sign up for to power their e-stores' search functions.

• Google's new Bing-like look disappears

  Only hours after launching vibrant background imagery on its homepage, Google stripped the page back to its usual stark white.

• Google's Caffeine: a transition from months to seconds

  Newshounds and marketers may still debate whether Google's Caffeine, which now delivers search results from updated sites within seconds, is fast enough. But it wasn't too long ago that it was acceptable for Google to update its index only once every 30 days.

• Deal with Apple 'easy,' Microsoft executive says

  Microsoft may be the biggest software company in the world, but like everyone else who does a deal with Apple, it too was sworn to secrecy.

• Google adds Caffeine for more up-to-date results

  Google has introduced a new Web indexing system to provide users with more up-to-date search results, the company said Tuesday.

• Search marketers consider optimizing for Bing

  Once Google cornered the bulk of the search market, many search marketers stopped optimizing their sites for other engines, but that could change when the Bing-Yahoo integration happens, experts speaking at Search Marketing Expo said.

• Proxy-based search engine joins local filter battle

  A Netherlands-based meta-search engine has opened its doors in Australia for the first time in an effort to help users circumvent the Government's proposed mandatory Internet filtering scheme.
  

• Google: $54 billion impact of search and search ads in US

  Google's search service and search advertising products generated an estimated US$54 billion for U.S. businesses, Web site publishers and nonprofit groups in 2009, according to a study the company has released.