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Google.com tracks your searches and keeps records of all your activities. This is generally used for providing relevant (?) search result and adverts.

Like Google search operators, Microsoft’s Bing also offers some powerful search operators to search effectively. You can use these operators to use Bing smartly.

Google has changed the URL of its encrypted search service to https://encrypted.google.com. In past, this service was hosted on https://www.google.com.

Google has introduced its new search indexing system Caffeine. Caffeine is claimed to be the most advanced search index, primarily focused on fresh results.

Users can now add hashtags in comments and, just like twitter, these tags will be automatically linked to the search page.

Google today announced to add an interesting feature to its search service: encrypted search. This simply means that the users will be able to search safely.

Keyboardr is the fastest way to search on Google, as it load results as you type in the search box. You don’t need to hit the usual “Search” button or the enter key.

Google recently changed the look and feel of its search engine result page. Here is a trick to get back the old layout of Google.com .

Google recently introduced a new feature: a virtual keyboard, on selected international sites like Google India. This virtual keyboard appears next to the search box if you use search interface in a non-Latin language.

Google today announced a very interesting and useful feature: Search through twitter archive. Users can search Twitter.com archive on Google search, and can go back as far as the very first tweet on March 21, 2006!

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) based on the East Coast of the US has been found redirecting DNS for the search queries from the Google Toolbar in Firefox.

Blogger Ian McAnerin discovered a very interesting fact about Bing.com search results: the homepage of OpenOffice.org is missing in the results. Later, SearchEngineLand.com investigated this issue and found that the only homepage of the site is missing in the results, while other pages from OpenOffice.org are appearing in Bing.com results.

Twitter has enabled Firehose, the complete access to all public tweets without any rate limitation, for more search engines.

This is another Easter egg in Google search. This will take you the official hack page of Google.com

Quick Google is a useful Chrome extension. You can search Google without leaving the current page and see a preview of each result.

Google Homepage Reloaded is a greasemonkey script, which gives users the ability to click Google logo on Google homepage to change the website they search.

List of advanced search operators in Google Wave.