There have been reports flying around Twitter and several prominent blogs that Twitter is making a move to acquire Summize, a popular Twitter search engine. In case that is the first you’re hearing about Summize, here’s a rundown of what it does. It can search Twitter for any string — most impo…

Although it doesn’t always get the most attention, Opera is a solid browser that continues to improve with each version. While they work on their next version, codenamed Peregrine (like the falcon), subtle improvements are being added to the current release, 9.51. The latest addition is Ask.com …

The only thing Facebook messages have ever been good for is getting a friend’s real contact info so you can talk external of Facebook. But what happens when you lose that critical report with your buddy’s new address or screenname? Facebook fails you, and you have to scroll back through all your…

Microsoft’s SearchTogether plugin for Web Explorer 7 lets you share your search history with others. The plugin additionally provides tools for leaving Gadgets and voting on search listings.

Why precisely would anyone want to use that service? Say you’re planning a vacation and you’re looking…

Last year Google and Microsoft spent a lot of instance trying to one up one another in the area of book search. Both companies launched products that would let users search within the text of thousands of books and display results in a web browser. Some of the books were public domain while othe…

See that man on the right? That’s Carl Icahn, a big Yahoo! shareholder, and something is obviously bugging him. No, he’s not the board member who resigned. That’s Edward Kozel, who was originally supposed to leave in February, but decided stick around for the attempted acquisition by Microsoft.T…

There are plenty of image search engines on the web. Enter a text based search term, and Google, MSN, or Yahoo! will spit out a series of pictures it thinks match that query. But TinEye takes a slightly different approach. that image search engine, currently in private beta, lets you upload an i…

Quick, what do the twenty images above have in common? whether you guessed they’re all images pulled from Google Images, you guessed right. But that’s not the reply we’re looking for. The right reply is Windows. And now you pretty much know how to play Guess the Google.

The game picks a rando…

The bright developer behind Inquisitor has announced nowadays that Yahoo! has acquired the rights to his program, which searches for and suggests results as you type. It’s very similar to highlight apart from that it searches the World Wide Web instead of your Mac’s HDDs.

We nag that Yahoo! m…

Now that YouTorrent is exclusively committed to boring, legal torrents, you might be looking for another BitTorrent search engine that searches a large number of BitTorrent trackers. LOOKTorrent fits the bill. Kind of.

The site lets you choose from a list of 25 BitTorrent trackers that you wa…