Microsoft set to launch Kumo next week
Microsoft's Kumo search engine may be publically unveiled next week, says the Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft's Kumo search engine may be publically unveiled next week, says the Wall Street Journal.
Some Google users may have noticed that health-related searches generate more than a simple list of results.
Yahoo offered a peek at how its search results are likely to be displayed a few months from now, as it tries to find a better alternative to the traditional "10 blue links."
Smartphone browsers are good enough to deliver Yahoo Mobile, so the search provider has killed off an on-device software version of the product that it was beta testing.
After much online chatter and media buildup, WolframAlpha is up and running, promising to take online search in a whole new direction.
A web tool that answers questions directly rather than offering a list of search results could become as popular as Google, according to its inventor.
Want to see how your area's unemployment rate stacks up against the rest of the country? Or compare the price of cookies, the level of carbon dioxide emissions or the number of wildfires in different regions of the country?
Top Chinese search engine Baidu forecast a recovery in its ad sales this spring as it reported a second consecutive decline in quarterly revenue on Tuesday.
Google Inc. Monday afternoon released two new tools that are designed to make it easier for users to find the information - or images - they're looking for.
The social media phenomenon that is Twitter continues to attract third-party developers with the London-based WorkDigital developing TwitterJobSearch, a job search engine for the microblogging service now available online (in beta, of course).
Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales' long-shot attempt at disrupting Google's search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday.
The year is coming to a close, but the endless year-in-review articles are just beginning. Google's annual Zeitgeist is out today with its compilation of the most popular search terms around the world.
Yahoo's lab in India is developing technology that will summarize information about web search results rather than simply offer links as search engines currently do.
Two new search engines that have garnered attention in the press as possible Google slayers continue to trail the world's most popular search engine by a long shot.