A riddle: when is a search engine not a search engine? One of the most popular blog search engines isn't really a search engine at all, and its index spans far more than just blogs. Today, we'll ...

Search giant Google Wednesday launched a search engine exclusively for blogs, entering a market that has thus far been dominated by niche search engines like Technorati.com, BlogPulse.com, ...

For many people Google is search — they’ve simply never considered an alternative. But there are plenty of search engines other than Google, offering benefits such as increased privacy, environmental ...

As Google grew in size and influence over the years, the tech giant also grew to exercise an awful lot of power over the shape of the internet, and its data-hungry tendrils reach into nearly every ...

As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time before Google was created. However, the World Wide Web is full of search engines that time ...

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