Google Desktop may finally be on Linux, but how does it fare against the competition?

The idea of anybody finding your single site among the 12 million or so on the Net sounds like a modern day version of the proverbial hunt for a needle in a haystack. However, some clever technology a

Topsy is a new search engine that sees the Internet as a "stream of conversations". You get the ability to search tweets as easily as the rest of the web

London based Stephan Wolfram has unveiled a search engine that wants to out-search Google by using the power of math to answer your questions.

We've searched every corner of the web for the most useful (and useless) sites you've never seen. Download free movies and music, find the cheapest shopping sites, get a degree, make money, walk on Mars and much more.

But paid-for entries still worth billions to Google and its contemporaries.

Web giant to help SMEs with customised site search.

Founder kills off search engine project after disappointing takeup.

Transforming video from entertainment to research tool.

Every search engine uses a different method to score and rank websites. We give you the tips and tricks to get your site higher on the results page.

Microsoft have committed to spending $US80m on 'Bing' advertising against other search engines. Basically, they want to convince you that Google and Yahoo aren't worth your precious search time.

It's always a bonus to uncover a shortcut or program enhancement, and here we bring you 100 tips and tricks that we hope will make your computing experience quicker, simpler or more rewarding. Search and be found.

Top results are not always the best.

Google, MSN and Yahoo adopt standard to speed up search engine indexing.

Engine interprets search results to allow for better ranking.

Still not sure whether it's worth upgrading to Vista? We put XP and Vista through the ultimate face-off.

Google's design and delivery has been overhauled, but what will the changes bring?

Computational knowledge engine gets tentative thumbs-up, but problems persist.

Yahoo! was a dominant force in the heady days of the dot-com boom. But can they still challenge the rapidly growing Google corporation?

Company continues to increase market share.