A few months ago, I stopped at a store to search for a new phone. The place I stopped at offered a couple of dozen different models of phones with different features, and I narrowed my search down to three or four that listed features on their boxes...

When someone searches the Web, one of the challenges that they often face is using the right words in their search to find what that they are looking for. Search engines usually rank pages based upon how prominently terms from a searcher’s query...

Search engines have evolved tremendously since they first started appearing on the Web more than a decade ago. I thought it might be fun to take a look back at some of popular search engines of yesterday, and spent a little time at the Internet...

When you visit a search engine, and type a word or phrase such as “Hilton,” or “ESPN,” or “Nature Conservancy,” into a search box, chances are that you want to visit the home page for Hilton Hotels, or ESPN or the Nature Conservancy. If the pages for...

If you search for “pizza,” or “movie times,” or “division of motor vehicles,” there’s a chance that you might want to find information about where to get pizza near you, or to find what films that local movie theatres or showing, or find out more about...