Every time an internet surfer uses the Google search engine, his or her search data is retained by company for an indefinite period of time. This is seen as a problem by internet consumer watchdog groups and, recently, a European Union data protection advisory group sent a questioning letter to Google.

A signed statement by the American President, George W. Bush, may pave the way for a situation in which US Agencies will be able to open US citizen`s personal mail, without obtaining a court order

It all began in October; Google placed a link to its blog search engine on Google`s main news page, causing a 168% surge in traffic, in a two eek period

The pubic information site, Wikipedia, is about to expand and offer a new search service for public

The name Wall Street stands for high finance at the global power centre New York, for the top of the top of financial services, for cr?me de la cr?me of financial talent and for the best of the best of market analysis

Jimmy Wales, founder of the immensely popular internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia, announced his plans to launch a search engine together with Amazon.com.

Microsoft hold over the online search market is deteriorating. A monthly study shows that Microsoft`s share of the online search market was 8.2 percent during November, while a month back, 12 percent of the people were searching using Microsoft`s Live Search engine.

An Australian Federal Court raised some serious questions regarding the legal situation of search companies in relation to copyright infringement. The court said that web links to copyrighted-protected content makes the site responsible in the eyes of the Australian law.

A study, which researched the needs of over 1000 Indian men, revealed an interesting conclusion: Indian men required condoms that were generally smaller than what was available on the market, made according to international standards.

Although Google ran into some legal trouble with its new Google Books service, when authors took the company to court saying that allowing users to search through books and view specific parts of them is akin to content piracy, there is someone that believes that new service might bare some fruits after all

According to a market research, PC sales are continuously dropping and the growth is decreasing. During the traditionally highest-volume time of the year for computer consumption, the research shows that desktop sales are on a year-over-year drop, when notebooks are only rising in sales numbers.

The online search engine company, Google, is dealing with some unexpected bumpers on the way to release its Google Book Search service. The Authors Guild has taken Google to court over the new service, and claims that Google is flat-out violating copyrights.

Legal battles over copyrighted content reached Chinese courts when the internet search company Baidu was sued for helping users to download illegal content.

As the internet gets bigger, crossing the 100 millionth website not long ago, a need for sites regulation aroused. In an unusual cooperation, rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will work together and support a shared standard regarding sitemaps.

Who many times did you see something you like worn by a celebrity? How many hours did you spend at shopping malls and clothes stores trying to find that exact pair of shoes or jacket?

Google, world leader in search engine platforms, keeps pressuring Microsoft to allow users full freedom in choosing their favorite search tool.

For those who say that ?breast is best?, new data seems to indicate that breast feeding an infant will lead to a healthier sort of mental develop as the child grows up. A study conducted over the past sixteen years in western Australia including 2,500 youths found that biological additives in breast milk contributed in some way to brain development.

The holiday shopping season is approaching, on the web as well as in the real world. eBay Inc. are ready for the numerous buyers with their new technology "Best Match", which is supposed to help in fast products search.

The Pacers`G/F Stephen Jackson fired a gun in the air after he was slugged in the mouth and struck by a car outside an Indianapolis strip club at 3 a.m. on Friday

Ben Edelman, a spyware researcher, has published a pay-per-click advertising report saying that major search engines such as Google run misleading ads, which "push and exceed the limits of ethical and legal advertising."

According to a recent study`s results, paid search is not much better than unpaid search in turning online shoppers to buyers. WebSideStory said that a conversion rate for paid search was just 9 percent higher than unpaid search.

Software giant Microsoft officially released September 11 Live.com. After six months of beta testing, Microsoft decided to enter the search engine market and try and enlarge its market share.

Microsoft will soon officially launch its new Windows Live Search engine, in an aim to overthrow market leader Google and wrestle away billions of dollars worth of online advertising.

Google is about to offer a new service that will allow Internet users to search through the archives of magazines, newspapers and other publications and find material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years.

A new tool, "Lost In The Crowd", was developed by Unspam Technologies Inc. The tool helps consumers to protect their privacy by sending incorrect search data to AOL, Google, MSN, and other search engines on their behalf.

Search engine Pixsy Corp. had stated that next week will be launched a site that hunts the Web for celebrity photographs. The new service plans to become the largest aggregator of videos and photos of all kinds of celebrities, from Mel Gibson to Samuel L. Jackson to Tiger Woods.

AOL has apologized for revealing search log data on 658,000 subscribers. The posted data, which was selected randomly, was among the tools that were about to be used on the recently launched AOL Research site. But the Internet giant has since removed the search logs from public view.

AOL had recently published search histories of more than 650,000 of its users. The fact that it is possible should remind those of us who had forgotten that the information you type in online may not be as private as we think.

According to Harris Interactive survey, the number of US citizens searching the web for health information had increased by 16 percent in 2006, from 117 million in 2005 to 136 million now.

A new era has come to the Microsoft Windows world. From now on, according to Microsoft Corp. computer making companies will be able to set Google or any other of the search engines that does not belong to Microsoft as the default search service on the Windows operating system.