The Federal Trade Commission announced the results of its investigation into whether Google violated antitrust laws with its current business practices today.
Google has modified its popular image search to block many explicit pictures, a move that could be a huge win for competing search engines.
ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx domain, has launched a new search engine called Search.xxx that intends to make looking for online adult entertainment safer and easier to access.
Search giant's latest moves make searching a little more like asking the U.S.S. Enterprise's computer for information than ever before.
Google may be in the process of testing a new web search interface that transforms the left-hand sidebar into a horizontal bar on top of the results, according to a video obtained by Techno-Net.
The leaked interface clearly takes inspiration …
They may be quickies of a different kind, but a rendezvous between Microsoft and New York-based startup Qwiki has brought the young company’s interactive video presentations to search results for faster, more pleasing experiences.
Beginning Tuesday, Bing’s search engine will …
Search engine marketing guru Danny Sullivan has asked the FTC to review Google’s treatment of paid results within, next to, or near organic search results.
Remember this? It’s from Google’s 2004 founders’ IPO letter:
Our search results are the best …
The European Union’s antitrust chief has given Google a final chance to settle matter related to anti-competitiveness with its main search engine, according to a Reuters report.
The EU first opened up an investigation in November 2010 after rival companies …
Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, shed some light today on why his VC firm invested in search engine startup DuckDuckGo, even as it pales next to Google and Bing.
DuckDuckGo has seen incredible growth in the past …
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Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust.
No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their Facebook shares. It’s Knowledge Base, a semantically structured body of data 500 million items strong and …
A week after previewing the revamped Bing, Microsoft has released the latest version of its search engine to people in the U.S. Head over to Bing.com/new to test out the new social features as well as annoy your friends with …
Bing has had an epiphany.
Rather than compete with Google in the sheer number of features it can cram onto its results page, Microsoft’s search engine is going the opposite direction towards simplification by releasing a clean, more streamlined results …
In 2009, Seuk Weon Song of Seoul, Korea, realized the Internet had a fundamental flaw: Google.
The dominant search engine for the majority of Internet users was giving websites top billing for all the wrong reasons — SEO, keyword stuffing, …
There a new search engine in town to freak out about: Ark, a “people” search engine that scrapes social networks to compile its own profile of you.
Ark found that over 30 percent of searches were for individuals. The startup …
Popular Russian search engine Yandex has something Google doesn’t: The approbation of Twitter and access to the entire stream of public tweets.
Yandex has signed an agreement with Twitter to license the full feed of public tweets, otherwise know as …
Microsoft has acquired video search startup VideoSurf for an undisclosed amount, reports Israeli business news site Globes.
A handful of publications have indicated that Microsoft paid an estimated $70 million for the company, according to a report from TechCrunch Europe.…
Google is the latest company to be connected to a potential buyout of troubled Yahoo Inc. The search giant has talked to at least two equity firms about helping it acquire a chunk of Yahoo, according to a report in …
Alternative search engine Duck Duck Go closed its first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures, the company’s founder Gabriel Weinberg announced today. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Duck Duck Go, which has a tiny percentage …
TasteJive wants to make wine just a little bit easier to swallow. Today the company launched its wine recommendation engine to take the jargon out and make wine more contemporary.
Wine can be intimidating and often pushes people away just …
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China Central Television’s recent attacks on Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) may lead to new regulations that force China’s largest search engine to separate paid advertising from organic search results more clearly.
On August 15, 2011, CCTV aired a half-hour program exposing …
