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During the month of October, 12.6 billion searches were conducted at home, work and universities, up seven percent on the September results. Yahoo led the way in growth, with a nine percent increase, to 2.6 billion searches, while Microsoft gained eight percent, to 1 billion searches.
Google saw a seven percent increase. Time Warner’s struggling AOL [...]

TechCrunch have received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple is working on a search engine of some sort.
At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod versions (unlike other browsers, you don’t have a choice). They [...]

Google has launched a feature called On-Demand Indexing that lets customers of its Google Site Search service more rapidly include new pages in search results.
With Site Search, Google indexes customers’ publicly available Web sites and powers a search engine on those customers’ sites. With the new option, customers get an “index now” button that will [...]

We’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional flu surveillance systems used by the CDC.
Each week, millions of users around the world search for online health information. As you [...]

English speakers are truly lucky that so much of the world is willing to accommodate us, learning enough of the language to at least give directions to the nearest bathroom.  But there’s an amazing amount of written content out there that isn’t in any given person’s native language, and to help with this issue, Google [...]

Google has slowly rolled out some new features under its search preferences, but in order to use Google Subscribed Links, you must create a new Google Account or sign in with an existing Google Account. This new feature seems to build on the social bookmarking trend, similar to Digg or StumbleUpon.
In order to use Google [...]

In today’s business environment, time and information are arguably our two most precious resources. Yet on a daily basis most Businesses find it difficult to simply locate information and intelligence locked in various company document files and databases.
This has been a typical feature of poor search within a business where it relies on accessing information [...]

Have you ever been stumped in finding the right words to search for? Back when I was planning my wedding, I had a list of wedding songs in mind, but the problem was that I couldn’t remember any of the artist names or song titles. So I started typing into the Google search box parts [...]

As Google continue to refine their search algorithms to deliver more relevant results, they are working to be as open as possible about how they use data to improve your search experience. They are rolling out a new feature in Google Web Search that will help you better understand how your search results are already [...]

It was announced last month in June that Sony will soon add a Google Internet search feature as part of a software update for the PlayStation Portable.  The new firmware upgrade to v4.00 “replicates the Google Internet search experience” on the PSP.
For the update PSP users will need to be connected to the internet via [...]