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Search engines are as trusted as traditional media when it comes to reading online news, research has suggested.

Savvy knowledge of the online marketplace is helping price comparison websites to outperform traditional financial services providers in the search engine rankings, recent research has suggested.

Consumers find more value in online content than they do in offline content, according to recent research from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Apple could charge as much as $1 billion (£0.64 billion) for the privileged position of default search engine on its iOS devices in future.

Bill Gates, the non-executive chairman of Microsoft, has stated, unsurprisingly, that his company's search engine, Bing, is a better product than its main competitor Google.

Russian search engine Yandex has overtaken Microsoft's Bing to become the fourth most popular search engine in the world.

The New York Times (NYT) has enjoyed a surge in profits driven by an increase in subscriptions for its online news site.