Google this week confirmed its acquisition of online entertainment company Slide. The purchase rehashed speculation that the search giant is interested in working its way into social media, possibly with a game-centered service called Google Me."
Google is paying for research to shut down spammers on . . . Twitter and Facebook?
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.
To give Bing a boost, Microsoft's bringing in the muscle of its modest entertainment empire.
While text-based search services such as Google's and Microsoft Bing now come pretty close to consistently serving up what users seek, video search services remain inexact at best, said video archiving experts who spoke on a panel at last week's WWW2010 conference.
The National Library of Australia has opted for an open source platform to drive its newly unveiled search engine.
Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries.
Google has made its new gesture search application compatible with smartphones based on Android version 1.6, and is also opening it to users outside the U.S., the company's said in a blog post on Tuesday.
Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog post Thursday.
Google and proponents of cloud computing were quick to say that this week's Google hack should not raise questions about the inherent security of the cloud, but the incident is fueling debate about the safety of storing data in facilities accessed over the Internet.
A long time ago, in the mid-to-late 1990s, AltaVista was a major search engine, but with the rise of Google its popularity slid, eventually becoming irrelevant to most users.
Google’s most popular search terms offer an intriguing insight into the Australian zeitgeist with everything from Facebook to bushfires, Twitter to <i>Twilight</i> appearing in the top searches for 2009. Twitter, <i>Twilight</i> and <i>MasterChef</i> were among Australia's fastest rising searches while Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson and Susan Boyle came up trumps for celebrity search.
Google is publicly testing a new image search interface whose results, when clicked on, don't take users to an external Web page but instead display the clicked-upon image at the center of a radiating cluster of similar thumbnails.
After transcripts of some voice mail messages from Google Voice users appeared in search results, Google has modified the telephony management service to prevent this from happening, the company said Monday.
Google is adding new functionality to a side panel that could provide quicker access to relevant search results, the company said on Thursday.