Micro-blogging and social networking site Twitter has acquired Summize, a search engine commonly used to track Twitter conversations.
Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a new way to present search results that take advantage of its background as an Internet portal.
News Corp. is in talks to buy a stake in an unnamed search engine as part of its plan to create a major portal and expand on the Internet, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said this week.
Lycos was knocked offline on Tuesday in the US and the search engine is blaming the company's Internet service provider for the outage.
Microsoft has updated its privacy policy promising to remove the Internet Protocol (IP) address and other identifying data associated with Web searches after 18 months.
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