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Long have there been rumors of a deal between Apple and Google to keep Google as the default search engine on iOS devices. According to Scott Devitt in a recent investor report, One Morgan Stanley analyst has pegged that deal as one based on a per device sold basis, and it could be worth US$ 1 billion this year alone.

In the monthly race for search queries worldwide, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was beaten in November and December by… Yandex. If you’re asking, “What is Yandex?”, you obviously do not live in Russia. 

Social network Twitter is changing how content is streamed to mobile users in order to improve the search and discovery experience for them. Upgrades to the Twitter iOS and Android apps and mobile.twitter.com site provide a single stream of blended content results.

It’s only three days since Microsoft launched Office 2013 and the online version through Office 365, but already it has started building it out. To be more precise, it is Bing that is building out Office 365 with the addition of five new apps that can be used with the new Office 365 Home Premium.

2012 ended on a high note for Facebook even after the company's rocky public launch early in the year, and the latest financial release shows the company now brings in nearly a quarter of its revenue from mobile.

In what directions does Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, want to take her company?

Adobe has announced some interesting paid search research on the 2012 retail season. And there are some key takeaways here for digital marketers.

  At its mystery-shrouded event in San Francisco, Facebook has unveiled Graph Search as a potentially massive new feature to help find relevant results among the photos, likes and other information that users put up on the social service. 

File sharing service YouSendIt has expanded its roster of duties by purchasing Found, a system for enabling file search across devices and clouds.

According to business video platform provider Qumu, three-quarters of a company’s business knowledge is spoken in meetings, not written down. When those meetings are video recorded, finding that knowledge has traditionally required that the videos first be transcribed into searchable text. Qumu is removing that step, by adding Speech Search to its video portal.

Ever try to search for an unfolding event on Twitter as it happens? Sometimes the results are not so great. When news breaks, Twitter doesn't always have the context it needs to fulfill those requests. Until now.

Search results that incorporate structured data have new found importance to Google, and the company wants to help webpages improve search snippets by including the most important information people might be looking for.

Ray Kurzweil, an author, futurist and inventor, now works for Google.

YouTube has overhauled one of its most popular developer resources by adding new functions and simpler controls to its Data API.

Russian search engine provider Yandex is now offering its users search personalization as part of a new search platform Kaliningrad.