Goby is the latest search engine but it has a bit of a twist. When you use Gopy you are likely searching for something fun to do or a great place to eat. Goby (GO-be) is a new search engine that's all about finding fun ways to spend your free time, from a weekend to a week off. It's certain that you won't use Goby to search for the latest news on the dismal economy. That's actually a nice change.

After 1 1/2 years of negotiation, which all began with a $44.6 billion bid by Microsoft for Yahoo!, the two companies have come to a more limited agreement, one involving their search businesses only.

Microsoft recently launched a re-branded version of its Live search engine called Bing. Bing is being called a “decision engine” and promises a host of new features to help people “make faster, more informed decisions”. Along with the launch of this new service, Microsoft is rolling out a $100 million dollar marketing campaign to get people to adopt its new service.

Launching later this month, the Wolfram Alpha project has been labeled with the familiar 'Google killer' tag. Described as a 'computational knowledge engine', the program has been the subject of much interest, while the details have remained shrouded in mystery, with access to previews restricted to a chosen few. So what exactly is it then?

Microsoft employees have began testing Microsoft’s new search engine - Kumo, which may or may not replace their official brand - Live.com.

When we use search engines to carry out searches on the web, most of us are amazed by the speed at which the results come back to us, especially given that there are billions of websites out there. What we don’t realize is that these web pages may not be the best to answer our questions or solve our problems.

Google apparently moved quickly to fix a major bug that was affecting the entire internet this morning and had many webmasters writing about it.

Superfish (http://www.superfish.com/), a startup focused on visual search, has raised $5.3 million in a second round of funding, peHUB says, citing a regulatory filing.

Google's (GOOG) shares are gaining enemies. Optimists think that the search firm is the most efficient way for companies to reach customers so it will not be hurt much by the recession.

In our yesterday's report we sited Times Online story that Microsoft and Yahoo! are again talking about a possible merge that would give Microsoft Yahoo's Search. We remember that a month ago Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said that he is not interested in Yahoo! anymore, or at least now. New reports about Microsoft Yahoo! possible search deal are also raising question based on Carl Icahn's recent moves.

A little over a month ago Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a Yahoo! deal still "makes sense," but that same afternoon, a Microsoft press release quashed any speculation by saying there were "no discussions between the companies."

It may be all conjecture, but serious speculation is going on that Microsoft is getting ready to rebrand its Live Search service. Leading to the rumors is that Microsoft recently took control of a domain Kumo.com that could become the new Live Search.