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Cloud storage provider Dropbox has announced its new full-text search engine, Nautilus, which will provide personalised search across the massive scale of its operations.

Ben Gomes, Google's vice-president of "Search, News, and Assistant" has issued a blog post not only celebrating the last 20 years of Google's search success, but looking ahead to see how search will evolve and improve over the next 20.

A Republican senator in the US has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google over what could be anti-competitive acts in its "search and digital advertising practices".

The European Union has raised the prospect that it may consider breaking up Google into a number of smaller units, saying it harbours "grave suspicions" about the firm's dominance of the search market.

A former writer for Forbes claims Google used its power to force her to kill a story that was critical of the search behemoth's monopolistic practices six years ago.

Although the TiVo EPG will switch off in Australia before the end of the year, TiVo has renewed its long-term IP licence allowing Foxtel to deliver an “ultimate entertainment discovery experience".

Marketing services company Salmat has achieved Google accreditation and appointed a new head of search in a move designed to beef up clients’ online marketing activities.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has extended its Hitachi Content Portfolio (HCP) with the addition of Hitachi Content Intelligence to improve information exploration and discovery.

Want to help your business by learning website creation, online marketing, social media, e-commerce and more? Then Google wants you to stop by its Digital Garage.

Apple has been shunted to second behind Google in the rankings for the top 100 most valuable brands in the world this year released on Wednesday by WPP and Milward Brown.

‘Emerging technologies [are] fundamental to 250% growth’ in the local search and discovery apps market and $12.2 billion annual revenue by 2020, according to Juniper Research.

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a combination of hardware and software that can perform extremely rapid image matching.

Direct marketing company Salmat has appointed a new head of search to lead its 15-strong team of search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimisation (SEO) specialists.

Google has joined Microsoft in reporting a quarterly profit increase. The company also announced a stock buyback.

Google is betting that a giant reorganisation into a new company called Alphabet is the right one to take Google’s various companies to the next level.

Google seems unstoppable. The massive growth in the use of smartphones has seen the company’s revenues from mobile advertising skyrocket.

Vertical search website operator Mitula has commenced trading on the ASX with a $153 million capitalisation after completion of an IPO which raised $24.4 million.

With the rest of November and an entire month of 2014 still to go, and with Australia going through the sorrow of cricket legend Phil Hughes tragically passing on the day Yahoo7’s report was issued, maybe Yahoo7 should wait until sometime in mid or even late December to issue what is otherwise a fascinating report on its annual search trend data.

Open source pioneer Mozilla has signed a five year deal with Fading Internet giant Yahoo which will mean Microsoft’s Bing will replace Google as Firefox’s search engine, at least in the US.