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A new feature was added by Bing to allow people to use natural language search queries for shopping. Now users can type words like "under $100" or "under $50" along with their keywords to get relevant results for products that match such descriptions. "With help from Microsoft Research, we've improved how we handle price queries to deliver results that automatically reflect your budget," the Bing Shopping team writes in a blog post. "This is especially handy when you're on the go, and don’t have time to browse around and click the right refinements.

Baidu, the largest search engine in China, may soon face an anti-trust investigation over allegations that it blocked and degraded search query results for a Chinese online encyclopedia website. The complaint was filed by a company that owns the Wikipedia-like site Hudong.com with China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC). The complaint requests SAIC to begin an anti-monopoly investigation against Baidu and to fine the search giant 790 million yuan (US$120 million).

Search on Bing is getting more personalized. Now users will be able to search for the things they need based on their individual needs, that are memorized by the search engine system, and also on their current location.

While you may think that typo is just a mistake that makes you erase the entered word in the search engine query bar and lose several seconds, such typos may bring millions of dollars to search engines, Google in particular.

Benjamin Edelman and Tyler Moore have estimated that they make the search giant $497 million per year.

Edelman and Moore have published a conjoint work titled "Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and Funders." They note: "According to our analysis, 57% of typo sites include Google pay-per-click ads."

As Microsoft is now experiencing ever growing success of its new “decision engine” Bing its main rival in the market Google wants to save its positions and make return step. Now people will be able to find factual answers and event information directly in its search engine results, as it continues evolving and enhancing its core product, the company said.

Google provided interesting statistics on searching trends during the year of 2009. Earlier the company reported the most searched for terms of the year. It showed the top ten fastest rising and fastest falling terms on both a global scale, and in the U.S. Globally, "Michael Jackson" was the fastest rising, while "Beijing 2008" was the fastest falling.

Alex Wilhelm at The Next Web reported an unusual behavior of the Google search machine that involves queries on religion. When you type any of the biggest world religions in the search bar Google suggests you different options of the search with one significant exception: it suggests nothing on Islam. If you type "christianity is", or "judaism is" you will get suggestions but when you type "islam is", you get nothing.

 According to the posting on the website of The Register magazine Google is now testing a new appearance of its search page which will feature cleaner, bolder graphics and a default side bar. However it is not certain if the company will after all launch this new interface.

As it is shown on the screenshots the revised Google logo ditches its 3D shading and shadows while the search buttons switch to white text against a bright blue gradient background.

 In a recent interview to IDG News Service a vice president of Search Products & User Experience at Google Marissa Mayer explained the words of the company CEO Eric Schmidt that he uttered during the company's earnings call: "We want to get to the perfect search engine." She also disclosed the “secret” that keeps Google ahead on search and elaborated on other Internet search related issues.