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A new study into changes in search engine's data retention policy has concluded that search results don't suffer from less...

As China’s lonely hearts turn to technology for a human experience, researchers also look to test her humanity, through "the...

Following on from Facebook's Graph Search announcement Tuesday, Microsoft has given its second-rate search engine, Bing, a social update with "five times more of your friends' Facebook" displayed alongside normal web results.

Google, Bing & NORAD have launched their annual tradition of tracking Santa Claus- here's how you can track Saint Nick online & on your phone this Chrsitmas

Facebook and Yahoo! have reportedly held discussions in regard to both companies working more closely together, and specifically collaborating on search, reports The Telegraph.

A small changes to Twitter's Robots.txt file might mean that we're going to see more tweets in Google and Bing search results

Consumers are being 'lured' into using illegal websites, according to a report by the UK's entertainment industry that recommends 'illegal sites' not be indexed.

Building on the success of last summer's World IPv6 Day - when the world's largest internet companies took the next-generation internet protocol for a 24-hour test-drive - the Internet Society has scheduled its official, co-ordinated launch for June 6, 2012.

Wajam Products brings social shopping to Google, Yahoo!, and Bing - here's how to use it to make your festive shopping a breeze.

Apple’s Siri is a direct threat to Google’s search market share, according to Eric Schmidt in a letter to the U.S. Senate’s Antitrust Subcommittee.

Google+ doesn't supply RSS feeds for user posts it is possible to create Google+ search and profile RSS feeds. Although it's not perfect.

What impact is Google's +1 button having on your search results? Have your early-adopter friends skewing your search results?

Facebook quietly rolled-out a new inline translation feature last night. The service, which uses Bing Translate, allows users to translate public Facebook Page content, like comments, into their own language.

Just over two months after being recognised by the United Nations as the world’s 139th country Google itself has officially recognised South Sudan’s independence by including the new state on Google Maps and Google Earth.

It appears that Twitter and Bing may be working on extending their search partnership agreement, or perhaps further integrating Twitter into other Bing or Microsoft services, as a clearly scripted conversation between the two companies unfolded on Twitter moments ago.

As Google, Facebook, and Twitter struggle to define social search Wajam has developed one of the most powerful social search engines on the market.

Google accounts for 92% of all internet searches in the UK, the latest figures from Experian Hitwise confirm. While Google's search dominance in the UK, and indeed the world, is well documented, last month saw the internet giant breach unprecedented levels of UK market penetration, now at 92.02%.

World IPv6 Day begins tomorrow Wednesday, June 8th, and marks an “important milestone” in the development of a long-term solution to IPv4 address exhaustion and the continued growth of the open internet, according to Google. Starting at midnight UTC on June 8th over four hundred companies and organisations, including Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Facebook and Mozilla, will enable IPv6 on their main websites.

Streetside, Microsoft's answer to Google Street View, has begun to gather street level imagery in Europe. Microsoft's Streetview service currently only exists in fifty-six US cities.

Google remains the dominant search market share leader with 65.4% of all explicit searches in the US in February 2011, according to comScore qSearch analysis. Yahoo! came in second with 16.1% market share, Bing at 13.6%, Ask at 3.2%, and AOL at 1.7%. Explicit searches are those that reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.