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When you ask Siri "What is the best smartphone ever?", you'd expect it to spout some pro-Apple response like "the iPhone 4S, duh." So when Apple's personal assistant responded with "The Nokia Lumia 900", it was actually quite funny.Alas, the joke is over. If you ask the same question now, ...

In a world where Google is the most visited website, and “just Google it” is an answer to many questions, are there any up-and-coming search engines with something more to offer than the usual round-up of Google, Bing/Yahoo and Wolfram Alpha?While Google and its specialised search options (like Google ...

In light of the "Your World" ruckus that is taking the tech world by storm, including more employees who want to leave, perhaps it’s time to look at a few alternatives to el Goog. What can be assured from the get-go is that none of these pretenders-to-the-throne have anywhere close ...

The blank search box is often a starting point for our journeys into the web. We search when we think it will be the quickest way to get what we want, whether it is on a search engine like Google, or using the search feature on a site such as ...