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Eight Chinese writers and video producers living in New York are suing China's Baidu search engine, arguing that its censorship of the Internet violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

What's going on when you click on a legitimate link found in a Google search, only to be redirected elsewhere?

Google this week reiterated its interest in being able to give users search results before they even know they want them.

Searches on the oil spill the Gulf of Mexico, the World Cup, teenage pop star Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga made Yahoo's top 10 list of most popular online searches.

I was going to ignore the debut of "human input" search engine Blekko.com today, mostly because I'm wary of "this is the next big search engine" kind of hype.

If Microsoft Bing looks a trifle different this morning, it's because the search engine's design team says it wants to make finding safe, dependable casual games and sleuthing for mainstream video game cheats and tips easier. I took the refinements for a test-drive, and after poking around the new interface, I can say they've pretty much nailed the former, but flubbed the latter.

Microsoft Bing's piece of the U.S. search market keeps growing bit by bit, but Microsoft is a long way from profiting from it as its online services division loses hundreds of millions each quarter.

Google moved quickly on Tuesday to reassure its enterprise customers that their data is in safe hands, following its disclosure that it was targeted in December by a "highly sophisticated" cyberattack from China.

Microsoft and Yahoo have finalized the terms of a broad search and advertising agreement intended to help them compete more effectively with Google.

Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups.

Google Labs today released its Experimental Social Search engine that adds posts from social networking friends to search results.