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Scouring the Web for information is becoming faster and easier. Could this new rise in search tools and navigational technologies be a threat to Google's dominance?

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: What's Microsoft's Bing Strategy?; Nipping at Google's heels, Bing focuses on refining product-related searches.

: Making Search Social; A new engine can turn a difficult search into a communal quest.

: More-Searchable Flash; Information from millions of Web pages that use the animation software is now available to search engines.

: Opening Search to Semantic Upstarts; Yahoo's new open-search platform is giving semantic search a helping hand.

: Searching as a Team; An innovative tool aims to help users search the Internet together.

: Building a Better Search Engine; A new natural-language system is based on 30 years of research at PARC.

: Q&A: Peter Norvig; Google's director of research talks about the evolution of Web search.

: Digging Deeper in Web Search; A personalization search tool reveals links buried deep within page results.

: Better Search in Virtual Worlds; Second Life's new search tool helps users find 3-D objects.

: Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off; Our exclusive test shows how the two Web engines compare when given the same queries.

: How Twitter Could Bring Search Up to Speed; Some say that Twitter may be as important to real-time search as YouTube is to video.

: A Smarter Search for What Ails You; Software searches through medical information by analyzing the structure of sentences in a new way.

: Microsoft Searches for Group Advantage; A new search algorithm looks for connections between people.

: A Google Killer Stumbles; Cuil's rough launch shows the difficulty of challenging major search engines.

: Search Engines' Chinese Self-Censorship; U.S.-based search engines are choosing what they censor in China and could be blocking more than they have to.

: A New Perspective on Search Results; Google is experimenting with different ways to serve up search results. But will any of them stick?

: Social Search; A new website will offer personalized search results based on the user's social network.

: Jennifer Chayes; The director of the new Massachusetts-based Microsoft Research lab wants to use mathematics to design better search engines, recommendation systems, and online auctions.

: Wikipedians Promise New Search Engine; But Google is likely to be a far harder target than Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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