Concerned about others seeing your search requests? The Ixquick metasearch engine now uses SSL by default.  

Google has been found not guilty of breaching consumer protection laws by failing to sufficiently distinguish between search results and sponsored links (aka adverts) but its ability to use its dominance of the Australian search market to favour its own services over those of competitors is under increasing scrutiny by the Productivity Commission.

Google has come up with a means of getting we users to view more advertisements promoting goods and services related to their interests: Google Relate.

Google has added its '+1' recommendation system to google.com.au, following its launch in the US in March, and made it available for incorporation into Australian web sites.

No, Google hasn’t joined Dr Who’s Autons, but instead has “received” the unluck o’ an Irish lawsuit.

A new version of McAfee Family Protection refines parents' ability to control and track their children's Internet usage.

Yometa.com is the latest player to try its hand at metasearching. The company does bring a new perspective to the concept, so can it succeed where others have faded away?

Google tries really hard to keep track of you. Its latest weapon: social search recommendations through a new feature called +1.

Not to be outdone by its far more popular competitor, Yahoo! has added a search-as-you-type feature to its search engine.

NICTA and Microsoft Research Asia are collaborating to improve video search by applying surveillance technology.