There is an article on CNET that speculates that Microsoft may be interested in acquiring Powerset search engine, which is close to publicly rolling out its semantic search engine. The early reviews of the Powerset semantic search have been favorable.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008 saying "our ongoing innovation in search, ads, and apps helped drive healthy growth globally across our product lines, yielding another strong quarter for Google," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.

Yahoo, after years of battling Internet rival Google for online advertising, said itwould launch a limited test of Google's AdSense for Search service.

User tolerance for searching search results is shrinking.

Yahoo! oneSearch 2.0(TM) to Include Search Assist, Voice-Enabled Search, Idle Screen Access and Open Search Results

A new type of business, called Googlewashing allows companies to pay a certain questionable service provides in order to remove negative information about your company from search engines such as Google. Hence the name Googlewashing.

According to AP report published in Yahoo! News the later is exploring alliance with News Corp.

Nokia and Google today announced that Google's popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application. The integration will begin in select markets with the Nokia N96, Nokia N78, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 6220 classic.

Software giant Microsoft urged Yahoo to accept its "generous" USD 44.6 billion takeover offer, adding it hoped to get a quick response from the major Internet search engine player.

Microsoft Yahoo! possible alliance as one company has already made top headlines in the media. Could Microsoft-Yahoo be the next supper search engine? Below is the text of the letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors.

Microsoft Yahoo! transaction is valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock. It provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders.

In new stock tech news, Microsoft has offered to buy struggling search engine Yahoo! for $44.68 billion. microsoft wants to boost its position in the powerful and financially rewarding search business.