Abstract
Ten years after Paczyński's proposal to use gravitational microlensing as a tool for discovering dark stars and four years after the identification of the first candidate events, searches for microlensing events have opened a new window in astronomy and started to yield quantitative information on the contribution of dark compact objects to the dark halo of the Galaxy. A review of the results obtained so far is presented, along with recent highlights in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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