Google has gone and done the obvious and created personal searches using its Google+ social network. A new personal search icon will incorporate profile pages, posts and people into your results. 

In what Google is calling "search plus your...

Eric Schmidt has suggested that Apple's Siri voice search technology is a significant threat to Google's dominance as the go-to search engine, especially when it comes to sourcing specific information.

During another session with U.S. senators...

Google has revealed a new information panel that will appear at the side of the traditional search page; bringing all the important details surrounding any real-world search you may do. This should make it easier and quicker to find out the  important...

Looking for something to do this weekend? Well, Microsoft thinks that its pipped Google to the social planning post by announcing Bing Events.

According to a memo sent to Pocket-lint, Bing Events is "the first time a major search engine has...

Braniacs and mathematicians alike will be enjoying todays Google Doodle, which celebrates the birthday of numerical genius Pierre de Fermat and his famous 'Fermat's last theorem'. 

The mathematical impossibility has reached almost legendary...

Vigilant Google searchers have spotted a few changes to the search giant's shopping results, which some are saying now point to just Amazon listings.

What looks like a new type of partnership links and not standard Amazon affiliate links are...

Monday 11 April was supposed to be like any other day. Mondays are normally good days for Pocket-lint's traffic as people want to check up on what happened over the weekend. But this Monday proved to be very different. Very different indeed.

On...

Bing search is set to hit smartphones with its own dedicated m.bing.com site that includes a lot of the features found on its desktop companion. 

The smartphone search site will now show Bing's daily image and hotspots as well as quick links...

The way that humans' memories work is being altered as a result of computers and the Internet. That's the verdict of a science journal published by psychologists from Columbia and Harvard universities.

The report suggests that we now use the...

In one of those, it-didn’t-look-like-that-yesterday moments, Google has rolled out a new design for its search pages when viewed on the iPhone or Android smartphones.

Doing a search via the Safari browser on the iPhone now brings up a...

It looks like Facebook's very own Mark Zuckerberg was among the cream of the technology crop that was granted access to the new Google + service. Only a select few of technology high flyers (ahem Pocket-lint) are yet able to get their mits on the Google...

Recently passing the 1 billion user mark, Google has come a long way since it was first founded back in 1998 and has become a byword for internet searches. But, beyond chucking a couple of words into the main search box, do you really know how to get...

Google has got a new homepage today, but before you wonder what new features it’s added, the company has really just streamlined things further as it aims to speed up getting you to the results.

“Starting today, you might begin...

Pocket-lint was one of the first websites to grab hold of the new Google stamp of approval when it launched earlier this month. The service has now taken its first baby steps, ironed out the kinks and is ready to roll out globally.

A...

Google looks to have started rolling out its latest Panda update over the weekend, with many sites claiming they are seeing a boost in their search traffic.

Search Engine Optimisation forums online are abuzz with website owners saying that...