Most people look at only the first ten or so results of a Web search query anyway.

FORBES: Narrow Your Horizons

The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine.

BBC: Web tool 'as important as Google'

In 1996 MicroStrategy brought out its first product allowing users, via the Web or an intranet, to query a database without special desktop software.

FORBES: Database evangelist

Popular free Web search service Google, by comparison, will include items posted online, but it ranks them not just by germaneness to the search query but by how many different Web sites link to a particular posting.

FORBES: Search and Ye Shall Find

As the head of Google's antiwebspam team, he's rewriting the complex set of rules for ranking Web pages based on their relevance to a given query, which is the company's DNA, its single most important product and a trade secret more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.

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Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.

ENGADGET: Windows Phone 7 Series is official, and Microsoft is playing to win

Instead of typing in a search query, copy (or drag) the image you are looking for from any web page and paste (or drop) it into the input field.

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By entering certain strings of text into user input boxes on Web sites, cybercriminals are able to confuse their commands with data in a site's Structured Query Language (SQL) database and gain control of it, says Grossman.

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