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    By Josh Smith

    | 4:00PM 12/02/2010
    If you're sick of trying to keep track of your holiday wishlist, or your kid's holiday wishlists, we have a list of ways that make it easy to create and share what you want with friends and family. With these online tools, holiday shopping will be done in a click. All you need to do is find the...

    By The Associated Press

    | 3:00AM 12/01/2010
    Move over, Michael Jackson. The BP oil spill topped the list of most popular Yahoo searches in 2010, ejecting Jackson -- the hottest search in 2009 -- from the top spot. Other top searches included Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, Justin Bieber and American Idol.

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 9:50AM 11/30/2010
    The EC says it's launching a formal, in-depth investigation into Google's treatment of search rivals, setting the stage for yet another potential legal entanglement over whether Google is unfairly taking advantage of its dominant market position.

    By The Associated Press

    | 10:45PM 11/09/2010
    Ask.com is laying off roughly 130 engineers and giving up on its own all-purpose search technology. It plans to go back to its roots of answering simple questions instead of indexing everything on the Web. Its exit leaves only two general search providers: Google and Microsoft.

    By Alex Salkever

    | 9:45AM 11/01/2010
    Rich Skrenta thinks he has built a better search engine. This week, he's launching Blekko, whose web searches will only accept information from curated lists of trusted sites, mediated by users to filter out irrelevant results. But can Blekko compete with Google and Bing?

    By Sarah Weinman

    | 12:56PM 10/19/2010
    Celebrity books normally get a big marketing push. But the campaign for Decoded, the rap mogul's new book of lyrics, is unprecedented. Thanks to backing from Clear Channel and Microsoft's Bing, it's surely in a league of its own.

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 11:35AM 10/14/2010
    Just a few months after Google exited the Chinese search market, Microsoft and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group have partnered to launch their own Chinese search site, Etao.

    By Danny King

    | 5:20PM 10/13/2010
    Microsoft Corp. and Facebook today expanded their partnership by unveiling a feature that lets users of Microsoft's Bing search engine to find websites preferred by their Facebook friends.

    By The Associated Press

    | 2:45AM 10/07/2010
    Yahoo is rolling out new search features starting today, with more options and snapshots appearing in capsules ant the top of the page. The company hopes to reverse its steady decline in ad revenue from searches. But will this be enough to help distinguish it from Bing?

    By Dawn Kawamoto

    | 8:38AM 9/21/2010
    Online advertisers may see up to a 78% price increase in paid-search rates once Yahoo and Microsoft wrap up their search alliance. Cost-per-click will likely rise sharply as advertisers shift to the single Bing search platform.