Social networking aggregator platform FriendFeed is relentlessly driving social media innovation, this time with the launch of its new real-time search function.

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that works in real-time to consolidate updates into one place from all your different social media and networking websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr - you name it; basically any type of RSS/ Atom feed.

Microsoft’s search engine, which was renamed, retooled and relaunched last week, has gained on Google - a little - according to the latest ComScore.

Microsoft gained in US search market share to 11.1% with Bing’s debut last week.
The previous week, Microsoft had 9.1% share.

 Google has finally filled one of its search engine’s most glaring omissions with a new option that lets you filter results by time.

Those damn humans! Google has revealed the cause of an unprecedented, 58-minute malfunction yesterday that saw every site on the web flagged harmful. 

For around an hour early Sunday morning, the whole internet was deemed bad. Any search result typed into Google prompted the warning: “This site may harm your computer”.

A new study from the University of California suggests searching the internet may be beneficial for your frontal lobes.

The study, led by Dr Gary Small at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour at UCLA, measured older adults' brain activity as they searched the net.

"There's so much interest in exercising our minds as we age. One result of this study is that these technologies are not all bad. They may be good in keeping our brains active," Dr Small said to CNN.