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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

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

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.

More mobile, more visual, more social.

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.

The search giant has added crystal ball feature to its search behaviour tool, letting users see the search terms it believses are likely to be big in the next 12 months.

Founder kills off search engine project after disappointing takeup.

One way Windows 7 will make working lives a damn sight easier is the speed at which it hunts down documents and other files.

After the disappointment - perceived or otherwise - of Windows Vista, many are pinning their hopes on a revival with Windows 7. And from our first impressions of the pre-beta code, that's exactly what they can expect.

Browser plugin promises to bring back the power of Boolean to your Google searches. Is it useful? Oh yes.

Microsoft and Yahoo have announced a 10-year search partnership that will potentially allow them to rival Google..

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Dutch search firm Ixquick has announced that it has stopped recording IP addresses in a bid to boost user privacy.

Screensavers rated at 59% on top of the list of the web's most dangerous search terms, based on a McAfee survey of 413,368 unique urls that can infect your computer with malware, viruses and other nasties.

The generic sounding French town of Eu is undergoing an identity crisis. It thinks by changing it's name, it can accomplish the impossible: an improved Google search ranking.

Mobile phone GPS system builds in search results.

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

Microsoft is gaining US search market share at the expense of Google and Yahoo, according to the latest market research from comScore..

An amateur Sydney photographer has won a global photography competition through Facebook: the winning photo will be featured as the main image on Bing search sites around the world.