DuckDuckGo is a small startup search engine which offers fair and unrecorded results to anyone. Neowin has interviewed Gabriel Weinberg, the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, on Google, Bing and more. More...

Bing has been surpassed in global search engine rankings, falling to the #5 spot as Russia's Yandex soars into 4th pace. Unsurprisingly Google still retains place #1 with over 65% market share More...

Lycos, one of the biggest names in Internet search engines in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is planning to launch a new search engine it developed in house in 2013. More...

A new button has appeared in the Bing search engine controls that turns on a Full Screen mode, hiding many navigation tools and panes so you can enjoy the beautiful backgrounds without interference More...

After more than a year of investigation, it seems that the FTC feels Google has been exploiting its position at the top of the market to ensure that rival services do not get a chance to oppose. More...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed today in an interview that the company has a team that's working on some kind of search engine software, but details were not announced. More...

Walmart announced this week that it has developed its own in-house online search engine, called Polaris, that will be used to power its Walmart.com retail website. More...

Microsoft's search underdog, Bing, reportedly saw a 4% drop in search volume during July, on the heels of the search engine's social update and gains made the month before. More...

Beyond the algorithims and indexes, it's up to people to make sure that search engines deliver the best results, and Bing is no different. Now, thanks to a former employee, we can see how they do it. More...

A new study claims that, overall, 51 percent of a website's traffic comes from automated sources and that a whopping 31 percent of traffic includes visits that could be harmful to a website. More...

You'd think Google would know better than to pay for links that drive up search hits, but apparently not. The company is penalizing itself after it was caught violating its own terms of service. More...

China's largest search engine, Baidu, has experienced an unexpected growth in its strength during the third quarter of 2011. Baidu has recently focused more on providing e-commerce and videos, which seems to have struck home... More...

It was today that Google chose to implement their newest change for the Instant Preview feature on their world-leading search engine. When you tried to use the Instant Preview feature with a Flash-based site in... More...

At one point, three years ago, Yahoo crowed about how it would keep records of your searching history for only three months. They then said that they would 'purge the information' in order to maintain... More...

The Bing Team announced today that Bing will be getting another important update, one that tailors search queries to you. The update to Bing will take into account your location, finding surrounding restaurants and businesses... More...

A recent survey conducted between the two search engine giants, Google and Bing, have shown that visitors on Microsoft's search engine are more likely to find what they are looking for in less time than... More...

Earlier today a clash of the titans, or clash of the search engine giants, sparked an Internet out burst of Google accusing Bing of stealing their search results. From the looks of it, Microsoft was... More...

Google has begun blocking torrent-related searches from its autocomplete and instant search. Now when users attempt to search using Google's new autocomplete feature, torrent related words will no longer autocomplete in the search field. Google announced... More...

Last month, Neowin reported that Google was testing Instant Previews to go along with Instant Search results, but today they have finally unveiled it for everybody. Google Instant Preview is combined with Instant Search to give... More...

Today marks another milestone for Microsoft, as Yahoo search ads are now fully supported by Microsoft's adCenter. As per the search deal between Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing last year, not only will the searches be... More...

Today, Bing announced an all new incentive to use the decision engine, by offering a cash reward to users who search. Bing Rewards is different from Bing Cashback, which was discontinued back in June. Bing Rewards... More...

Amongst all of the excitement with the launch of Internet Explorer 9 today, the Bing team made another presentation with the introduction of Bing in HTML5. The updated search engine will answer back at Google's instant... More...

When Google introduced their instant live search earlier this week, some curious web enthusiasts looked towards Bing to answer back at Google, including Long Zheng from istartedsomething. Back in August 2009, Long Zheng developed a tool... More...

Just recently, Yahoo switched over their search engine to display search results powered by Microsoft's Bing. With this change, their advertisement service will also change over from Yahoo! Search Marketing to Microsoft's adCenter. The transition... More...

Microsoft launched Bing.com back on June 1, 2009, which replaced their existing Live Search. The young search engine, or proclaimed decision engine, is only a fresh 14 months old, but has managed to jump 51%... More...

It's been a highly successful year for Microsoft's Bing search engine, which started off as Live search, and was almost named Kumo. The little search engine that could has grown so much in the last... More...

Google release a new option on its homepage, customizable user backgrounds. The added feature has only gone live in a few countries, starting with United States, and will continue to roll out in more... More...

Yahoo may have taken the spotlight this month, but it is still far away from Google who is dominating the search market. ComScore released their monthly statistics showing the rise and fall of the... More...

At the beginning of January, it was believed that Caffeine had begun rolling out across Google's data centers. All the suspicion led people to believe that a full roll out was nearby. After all, Google's... More...

Today Google announced that they will be acquiring Aardvark, an online social search that provides user responses, instead of search engine results. The social search promises to return human responses for your questions within... More...

Microsoft's Bing search engine is to team up with Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that attempts to answer questions directly rather than providing links. The move will see Wolfram Alpha provide answers on Bing, which... More...

Microsoft Corporation has launched Tafiti (which means "do research" in Swahili), a test search engine powered by the software giant's Live Search and Silverlight technologies. The whole "search experience" is animated and although more intuitive,... More...

Backed by a group of investors with impressive track records, Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo into alpha stage – a search engine that does not rely on computers to scan the Web and does not... More...

Does the world need open-source search tools? The people at Wikipedia think so. The folks behind the public encyclopedia have launched Wikia, a project to develop a search engine, crawlers and other... More...

Yahoo Incorporated is quietly testing a search engine which users can customize by adding, removing and rearranging components. Yahoo Alpha, which is hosted on an Australian domain, offers a default results page with a list... More...

A new search engine, Cranky.com, was launched earlier this week and plans to profit from age-specific ads by targeting the 50-year-old-plus baby boomer. The man behind the site is Jeff Taylor, known for founding the... More...

Windows Live Search, currently in distant third place, is going final this week. Microsoft is anxious to take on Google and Yahoo mainly because search engine-based advertising is a very lucrative business. So far, to... More...

Keeping up in the heated race to build the best video search engine, America Online has signed 10 new content partners, including parent-company property CNN. AOL's audio and video search engine Singingfish... More...

Wired News is reporting that whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the... More...

Web giant Yahoo is developing a search engine for finding downloadable songs and music data from across the Internet, CNET News.com has learned. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company plans to introduce the music... More...

Bink is reporting that MSN have shut down their search engine preview. The preview had been made available for members of the public to test it out. Developers left the following message : ... More...

The mind-boggling speed and reach of Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They are powered by words alone. What a humdrum existence. The world is so much brighter and more varied, full of objects... More...

Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that a new engine for its MSN Search service will start up in July, another step in its plan to challenge Google Inc.'s pole position as the Web's top search... More...

Microsoft's MSN division has launched a sneak peek beta test of its new MSN Search Engine. (ed. looks pretty samey to me! ) The new MSN Search is a full speed ahead effort for Microsoft... More...