Brendan Sullivan

Google Inc. provides the best overall consumer experience among major Web search engines, but Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN have made significant gains in popularity since May 2004, according to a study by Keynote Systems Inc. Participants in the survey also chose Google as the search engine they would most likely use in the future.

However, while 55 per cent of Internet file sharers originate from the U.S., according to a study, the numbers of file sharers in Canada continues to grow faster than anywhere else.