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Read/WriteWeb network blog AltSearchEngines has launched a fascinating series today. It's a 3-part series attempting to define what is a search engine. While it's focused on 2007, the series will

We wrote about Microsoft possibly acquiring semantic search engine Powerset just a few days ago when it was still a rumor. Today, both Microsoft and Powerset have confirmed that they

Last week, we highlighted Microsoft Research's URank, an experimental search engine interface that allows users to rearrange their search results from Live.com. Now, Garett Rogers reports that Google is slowly

ChunkIt is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that wants to help you speed up your online research. To do so, ChunkIt preloads and searches through all the

Semantic search engine hakia is announcing today, at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York, that it is licensing its proprietary OntoSem technology to other companies. This will enable

When the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal goes through, if Microsoft's Bing takes all of Yahoo's US search engine market share then it will be at 26% to Google's 70%, according to

In a timely follow-up to Alex Iskold's thought-provoking piece on Google being The Ultimate Money Making Machine, Hitwise has released stats today that reinforce Google's dominance in the search engine

According to Hitwise, search queries on all the major search engines are starting to get longer and longer (PDF). While the average search query is still around two words long,

Google today announced that it is now indexing the amazing amount of 1 trillion unique URLs. Google's first index in 1998 only had 26 million pages and by 2000 that

Blogged Live from DEMOfall by Alex Iskold This morning at DEMO Retrevo launched a public beta of a new vertical search engine for consumer electronics. This is one of the