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Google has launched a search feature that lets signed-in users re-rank, delete and add comments on search results, according to a Google blog posting Thursday.

Microsoft Thursday unveiled a revamped Live Search API that developers can use to embed search on Web sites with more support for frequently used Web-development technologies and less restrictions on how third parties use the technology on their Web sites.

Facebook has begun allowing users to search the Web from within Facebook, using Microsoft's Live search service.

Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.

Almost half of all Internet users now use search engines on a typical day, according to a new study released Wednesday, that showed search engines are drawing ever closer to the all-time dominant Internet application -- e-mail.

Enterprise search is set to become a pervasive and demanding force in IT over the next several years, according to Gartner analyst Whit Andrews.

Startup Paglo, which first unveiled its "search engine for IT" in November, announced Tuesday that the fledgling SaaS (software as a service) offering is now available in open beta form through the (Northern) summer, after which the company will move to a paid model.

Yahoo will open its mobile search to third-party content providers and let users search just by saying a term or asking a question.

IBM has upgraded its high-end enterprise search product with an improved user interface, and will announce next week the availability of a business intelligence tool that can be used with it to analyze call center data.

Microsoft has released a preview of an update to its Windows desktop-search tool to clear out bugs and improve the performance of the current technology.