BriefMine launches its cheaper, speedier tool for legal research (exclusive)

BriefMine, a startup launching today, is one of only a handful of legal tech companies that are using technology to push the boundaries of legal practice.

Local-search site Stik leaves Silicon Valley for Detroit, announces $2.5 million funding

How do you succeed online in the crowded, noisy, and sometimes scammy local search market? If you're Stik.com, you succeed by focusing on transactions that are infrequent, expensive, and have a high cost of failure.

With 1B queries a day, Zuck says Facebook search is ‘a big opportunity’

In Mark Zuckerberg’s eyes, the Facebook phone might not make sense for his company, but search we can actually expect.

Around the time Facebook announced that it was going public, Zuckerberg uploaded a photo of his desk to, what else, …

It’s the search wars! Bing challenges Google to a side-by-side ‘search off’

Tired of playing second fiddle for years, the Microsoft-owned search company is saying, "Bing it on, Google."

Google brings cheaper batch processing to BigQuery, its ‘big data’ offering

Google announced two new user-friendly features for its popular BigQuery application with an aim to make it easier and cheaper for businesses to analyze huge data-sets.

Google Voice Search adds 13 languages for a total of 42; Siri still at 4

Adoro falar con xente na súa propia lingua.
You probably don't understand that, but Google does. Google Voice just added 13 new languages, including Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Portuguese to bring its total linguistic competency to 42 languages and dialects.

Watch out, pirates: Google’s new search changes target copyright offenders

With a tweak to its search algorithm, Google's waters are about to become a bit more unfriendly to pirates.

Google gets better at answering your questions on mobile

Google is updating its handy-dandy instant results to make them more attractive, more engaging, and more readily available on mobile.

Marissa Mayer brings a little Google to Yahoo with product focus

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, well-known for her obsessive dedication to products like Google's search and Gmail, isn't wasting time on shaking up Yahoo's complacent corporate attitude.

Mintigo’s new customer search engine … “the web will be your CRM”

Imagine a search engine that isn’t for finding fascinating facts about the Indian Ocean. Not for learning how much methane cows produce globally. And not for following the latest antics of someone named Kardashian.

Imagine, instead a search engine for …

Move over Google, Bottlenose launches search engine for the “now” era

Bottlenose is to social networks what Google is to the web. At least that’s how Bottlenose CEO Nova Spivack describes his tool, launching in public beta today, for helping people make sense of what’s happening right now on Facebook, Twitter, …

Twitter is the common dude’s RSS reader, new discovery tools show

It’s the worst-kept secret on the Internet today, but Twitter has just announced some new search and discovery tools for its microblogging service (they hate it when we call it that).

On the company blog today, we read that Twitter …

Twitter set to unveil revamped search and discovery features

Popular social network Twitter will unveil significant changes to search and discovery as soon as today, according to a tweet by engineering manager Pankaj Gupta.

“Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw,” Gupta wrote on Twitter …

Google morphs +1 into a recommendation engine for every website on the internet

A seemingly small change that Google quietly launched yesterday has the potential to transform +1 buttons from a simple I-like-this to a find-the-best-content-here experience … and generate more interaction with Google+.

You’ve seen Google +1 buttons all over the Internet. …

Google: Here’s how to do SEO

Google just posted a new resource on its developer blog intended to help startups with the basics of search engine optimization (SEO).

Google dominates the search-engine space in the U.S. with 70 percent market share, so optimizing your site to …

Watch out Google, Facebook ads appear on Zynga.com

Google jumped into Facebook’s territory when it launched its Google+ social network last year. Now Facebook seems to be jumping in to compete with Google in the advertising space. External ads from the social network are appearing on Zynga.com — …

Looks like Google is testing a radically different search interface

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 …

Bing’s new image search: the Pinteresting of the internet continues

Everybody wants to be Pinterest.

Bing has been updating its search engine results pages significantly this year, including an aesthetic and architectural revamp in May. Today Microsoft announced that image search, which is almost 10 percent of Bing traffic, is …