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 ...

As much fun as poking around the blogosphere can be when you're bored or wasting time, wading through all the crap can become tedious, quickly. A new blog search engine called Sphere aims to lighten ...

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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 ...

Google has dominated the search space for so long that a U.S. District Court judge recently found that it has acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search. You have probably used Google ...

Swedish startup Twingly is going public with its blog search engine, which is being built to deliver spam-free search results. For the last two months, Twingly.com has been available as a closed beta.

Google announced a site for searching blogs, a move many people expect the other major search engines to follow. The BBC reported that Google only started indexing blog entries made from June 2005.