Google knows that when you’ve got a wildly popular doodle on your hands, if you hold on for one more day, and let the users play, things will go your way.

If you're looking for signs of an improving economy, Google's latest results may be just the ticket.

Is Apple preparing to drop Google in favour of Bing as the iPhone's default search engine?

Like sands through a shaken up hourglass, Google counts down the seconds of our digital lives, drumming up a stack of speculative ponderings on its meaning before the clock runs out on the stroke of 2010!

The long-running negotiations between Microsoft and Yahoo! have reached another milestone, with the companies reaching definitive agreements on their proposed search and advertising arrangements.

Google’s top list of Australian searches for 2009 has been revealed, showing the ideas and spirit of the times as they were down under, and as you can imagine, many of the major Australian and international events of the year such as Twilight, Susan Boyle and stimulus packages all definitely make the cut!

Google's experimental Image Swirl puts a new spin on finding similar images. A visual interface clusters similar images.

According to two web analytics firms, Bing's search share last month started moving in the direction Microsoft would want to see. But its partner Yahoo!'s numbers headed south again, while Google marches on.

While there's no indication yet of how many Australians have ordered a Kindle, there are signs of considerable interest.

Microsoft's deal with Twitter to include public tweets in Bing searches has been closely followed by a similar arrangement between Google and Twitter.