Walt Mossberg article about a couple of the search engines I've recently blogged about, Google for Desktop and Amazon's A9. Also a couple of others that I've seen but not written about: mysearch.yahoo.com and clusty.com. Interesting things are going on in the search business!

You should already have Ad-Aware and Spybot installed to clean your computer of spyware. The final tool needed is one to keep spyware off your computer to start with, and it looks like Spyware Blaster fits the bill. In other words, it's free :) (and also highly rated). Give it a go.