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Sprint is the latest big-name website to get hit with a Google penalty for spam. Like in previous similar cases, with Mozilla recently or with the BBC before that, the penalty is for a page open to the public for comments.
Obviously, this page was abused and it probably started piling up a ton of spam, since Google... |
20 May 2013
12:31 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Google Search application is now available for download for the owners of Android devices, bringing along some appealing new features, including the option to set voice reminders. The feature is available only for the owners of Android 4.1 and newer devices (where the app is known as Google Now)... |
16 May 2013
02:27 GMT |
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Google is stretching far and wide these days, but at the core, it's still about search. So there's no surprise search is getting some attention at Google I/O. It's also no surprise that the Knowledge Graph is the star of search at Google.
The Knowledge Graph is now available in more languages, not an ... |
15 May 2013
14:16 GMT |
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Google keeps on expanding the search experiment in Chrome. The company has been working on building the search engine, complete with Google Now, into the browser, albeit via an API rather than actually making it an integral part of Chrome.
The built-in Google homepage and search box is only available in the dev chan... |
15 May 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Apparently, Google hasn't seen it all. Out of the billion queries Google processes each day, about 500 million have never been submitted before.
Everyone knows that Google deals with many queries each day and each month, adding up to about 100 billion searches per month.
Regardless of what you want to look f... |
14 May 2013
03:47 GMT |
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It's hard to miss a Google doodle, as hardly a day passes by without doing at least one Google search. But not all of the doodles Google makes end up on the main site; there are plenty that are only shown on a local domain. Granted, the subject of the doodles in question is only interesting to the people in the... |
9 May 2013
05:44 GMT |
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Google is working on a massive revamp to Google Maps. In the meantime, it's tweaking some of the smaller features as well.
Users are spotting a new way of advertising Street View content in Google Maps, with a card in the Maps OneBox for Google Search.
When searching for some locations, along with the map, yo... |
8 May 2013
17:21 GMT |
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Google is always trimming down on features or even products. It doesn't make too much of a fuss about it and, most of the time, people don't even notice, since few actually used the features in the first place.
The search page has been seeing some changes lately – Instant Previews was removed since it didn... |
7 May 2013
09:52 GMT |
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Google seems to be playing with the user interface for its search feature once more. Now, the search results no longer display the URL underneath the title.
As usual, whenever you google something, the result page enlists the name of the page you’re looking for and, underneath, said page’s URL.
Now, Go... |
3 May 2013
10:40 GMT |
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Numerous iOS device owners using the latest version of the Google Search app have discovered that the newly included Google Now service is draining their batteries fast. A location-aware service, Google Now constantly talks to its servers, even when the app is in the background with the customer using another app. ... |
2 May 2013
02:58 GMT |
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Google's search engine has been evolving into something beyond traditional search. Now, it's as much about giving you answers than it is about giving you 10 blue links.
Particularly with the Knowledge Graph, Google has been trying to feed as much information as possible, as long as it's relevant, to t... |
30 April 2013
14:44 GMT |
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As expected, Google Now has become available on iOS, as part of an update for Google Search. The fact that Google Now was coming to iOS wasn't a secret. It was an obvious move, for one, and a video describing it leaked a few weeks back.
Google itself didn't make it a secret, and Executive Chairman Eric Sch... |
29 April 2013
11:21 GMT |
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Google’s handy search app for iOS customers, Google Search for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, has been promoted to version 3.0. The new iteration brings Google Now to Apple users. Released minutes ago in the iTunes App Store, Google Search 3.0 lets you “get just the right information at just the right tim... |
29 April 2013
10:13 GMT |
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Sometimes, many times, it's the simplest technology that gets companies in trouble. Street View has been a constant source of issues for Google, some of them Google's own fault. But something even more minor has constantly been a target, autocomplete results and suggestions. Suggestions aim to make it eas... |
25 April 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Google is always tweaking and modifying the search page, adding and removing features without much fanfare.
Instant Previews, which got some attention when they were first introduced a few years ago are now gone, removed unceremoniously.
Very few people probably used the feature, which actually required a bit of ... |
25 April 2013
03:37 GMT |
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In theory, related searches should be quite useful on a search engine. In practice, Google hasn't really managed to get people to use it.
The search giant has experimented with several ways of displaying the related searches, and they were a part of the sidebar, back when there was a sidebar.
More recently, ... |
24 April 2013
09:38 GMT |
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Google is tweaking the "related searches" interface for image search. Instead of links to the related searches, Google now displays a row of thumbnails with the results of those queries.
The change makes the feature a lot more useful as people will be a lot more likely to use it if they see something they want.
It... |
22 April 2013
07:22 GMT |
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Mountain View-based tech giant Google rolled out a new batch of improvements for its very own Windows 8 Search app, introducing not only bug fixes, but also several important new features.
The new version of Google Search for Windows 8 comes with support for printing, but also with the ability to launch all results ... |
18 April 2013
02:59 GMT |
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Mountain View-based Internet giant Google has announced a series of enhancements brought to its Google Search service on mobile devices, aimed at enabling users to find what they are looking for faster than before. Now, Google Search on mobiles features a Quick view feature, which will appear in the form of a blue ... |
17 April 2013
02:01 GMT |
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Google is getting ready for a revamp of its search page and the homepage, especially since it plans to integrate both into Google Chrome. It's testing several versions of the site, as it always does when it redesigns something.
Earlier, we have seen some experiments in which the black navbar was replaced with a... |
12 April 2013
13:01 GMT |
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Google has released a maintenance update for users of its native iOS Search application that lets you search the web using handy mobile features, including Google Goggles. The latest version of the app is a maintenance release. Version 2.5.2 deals a blow to some of the latest bugs discovered in the app, and includes... |
10 April 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Google is finally implementing the EU "cookie law," which mandates that all websites in the EU must warn their users that they rely on cookies to keep track of them. Google's 27 localized versions of the site will display a warning that by continuing to use Google they agree to the cookies.
Google, as most othe... |
9 April 2013
06:21 GMT |
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Google is working on bringing Now to Chrome and iOS, but for the moment, it's still exclusive to Android. And, while there's plenty of work being done expanding the reach of now, there's also work on improving it as is.
Google Now is great, not necessarily for what it is but for what it could be. It&... |
4 April 2013
10:43 GMT |
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Google is on a roll, as the company released new updates for some of its most popular applications, including Chrome and Google+. Google Now or Google Search, as the application is now listed on Google Play, has just received a major update as well. With the latest version of the application users will be able to r... |
4 April 2013
01:58 GMT |
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Google has explained why, seemingly, direct iTunes links to various iOS apps were hard to find in Google searches. This led plenty of people to speculate that Google may be downranking iTunes links. The developers themselves wondered why the links were so far down in the results.
Google says there are problems index... |
3 April 2013
04:05 GMT |
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It seems that Google is extending its idea of getting rid of the search box beyond the desktop Chrome. It's now experimenting with integrating the Google search box into Chrome's OmniBox on iOS as well. The Google Operating System blog has noticed the experiment, it works in incognito mode, but it's f... |
2 April 2013
08:26 GMT |
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The highly anticipated debut of Twitter for Windows 8 has led to an important change in the overall top free apps ranking on Microsoft’s new operating system, as the official client of the social networking platform managed to climb on the third position.
While Xbox SmartGlass and Skype remain the two most pop... |
2 April 2013
01:31 GMT |
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Google has strived to bring the knowledge of the world to everyone. It's getting better at it all the time and it's making it possible to search for more and more things like images, sounds and so on. But one sense has so far been overlooked, smell. It's no coincidence, smell emulation is a very taxin... |
1 April 2013
04:42 GMT |
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The Google Search colors, the blue and green, are so ingrained in our collective consciousness that it's hard to imagine any other options.
They're so familiar that they've become a "de facto" standard, Bing uses them, Yahoo uses them, Blekko uses them, and many other search engines do.
But that doe... |
29 March 2013
11:01 GMT |
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Amazon isn't the only one trying to make movie watching even more disruptive on a tablet. Google has added a new feature to movies streamed from the Google Play Store, making it possible to identify the actors in a scene and find out more about the movie and so on.
The feature is similar to Amazon's X-Ray ... |
28 March 2013
06:32 GMT |
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Google is rolling out an interesting new feature for Search. For some queries, results for similar searches are shown alongside the results for the actual query used, as the Google Operating System noticed. The idea is to provide results for what users wanted to find, not necessarily for what they searched for... |
26 March 2013
11:24 GMT |
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Google has debuted a new opt-out tool for websites allowing them to be excluded from results in several search verticals. The move comes as a result of the settlement with the FTC over Google's allegedly anti-competition practices.
"Webmasters have several ways to keep their sites' content out of Google�... |
26 March 2013
08:41 GMT |
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Google is finally announcing that it's discontinued the Blocked Sites feature, even if it hasn't been working for a year or so. The feature enabled users to block sites they found annoying from their search results.
Google toyed with the idea for a while, but eventually gave up on it, enabling users to hav... |
25 March 2013
10:22 GMT |
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Google has long been attacked by companies for allowing rivals to place ads next to their "trademarks." These companies claim that it's unfair competition for Google to direct people, via ads, to the websites of competitors when individuals are obviously looking for something else.
There have been several laws... |
22 March 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Google isn't as feverishly prudish as Apple, but it's still a "family" company, one that probably doesn't want NSFW photos in the search results when people aren't actually looking for that type of content.
And it most definitely doesn't want topless photos in the Knowledge Graph, though tha... |
21 March 2013
13:11 GMT |
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After Google unceremoniously decided to kill Reader, one of the companies that came to the rescue was Digg, the new Digg. It said it already had plans for a Reader competitor and that those plans became the main focus.
A few days later, Digg was entirely removed from the Google search results, every single page fro... |
21 March 2013
09:10 GMT |
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For quite a while now, Google has been working on building answers into the search results page rather than send visitors to other sites if those answers are simple and obvious.
This makes sense for everyone, Google gets to keep users on its site, users get the information they want faster.
It's not so great ... |
20 March 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Google is moving ahead with the Chrome new tab page revamp/search homepage integration. Recently, dev channel users noticed that the black navbar was removed.
Now, with the latest update, Google is moving even further, and introducing the new built-in search page for the new tab page.
It's actually a new des... |
20 March 2013
06:23 GMT |
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Google's Flight Search tool has been around for almost a couple of years now, even if it did take it quite a while to acquire ITA Software, the company behind the technology, but it's been US only so far.
It did get support for international flights last year, but, again, these were only really useful to ... |
19 March 2013
13:28 GMT |
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Google is testing a new advanced image search option which would allow users to customize the search for transparent images. In practice, this should mean users will be able to find GIFs, PNGs or images in Google's own WebP format.
What's more, Google is also working on a filter for animated images, as the... |
19 March 2013
09:41 GMT |
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Google is continuing to experiment with building the homepage into the Chrome new tab page. It's been at it for a while, but it's a big move that requires a lot of work. It's moving forward though, the feature seems a bit more polished in the latest Chrome releases.
What's more, Google is continu... |
18 March 2013
08:51 GMT |
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Google is rolling out a small tweak to the search results page with the URLs bigger than before. Google is always tweaking the design of the search page so changes like this aren't all that surprising.
Still, the URL line has remained just as large for years without it being a problem, so it may seem a bit str... |
15 March 2013
10:17 GMT |
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Google is testing a couple of new search features, or may be slowly rolling them out. For one, you may have noticed that the font of the URLs in search results is now noticeably bigger. This change was spotted by a few users at first, but it seems to be rolling out fast and is probably permanent. Without a side-by-s... |
15 March 2013
05:58 GMT |
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It's no secret that Google is working on bringing its Google Now search app to more platforms. It's being built into Chrome and, it seems, an iOS version is in the works as well.
The video ad for the iPhone and iPad version of Google Now was apparently leaked to YouTube and then pulled, but not fast enoug... |
13 March 2013
05:53 GMT |
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Google is moving ahead with the integration of Now into Chrome. In a sense, it's been working on this for months, it's part of the effort to integrate the Google homepage deeply into Chrome, making it a part of the new tab page. Those efforts now include Google Now. In the latest Chromium builds, you can e... |
12 March 2013
08:41 GMT |
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Google has had a team on call ready to respond to disasters around the world for a few years now. The team put together tools which proved useful in times of crisis, like one which enabled people to locate friends and family.
Now, Google is moving towards a more permanent and preventive solution with the launch of P... |
7 March 2013
06:03 GMT |
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Google's ads are rarely about the products, more often than not, the company will focus on how its technology is supposed to make you "feel," how it improves your life and so on. That's a worthwhile strategy, though it wouldn't hurt to actually show the stuff you're advertising once in a while. ... |
6 March 2013
14:21 GMT |
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Google has removed The Pirate Bay from its search results for queries such as "pirate bay" on its UK site. The Pirate Bay doesn't show up in the top 100 results and probably isn't listed at all. Searches for "tpb" or other related queries do return results pointing to The Pirate Bay site. TorrentFreak fi... |
6 March 2013
12:12 GMT |
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Google introduced the new lightbox-style photo viewer for Google Image Search, changing the way images are previewed. Now, instead of an interstitial page, users can preview a larger version of an image and get more details on it inside the results page, eliminating much of the back and forth.
The new interface also... |
4 March 2013
08:13 GMT |
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Google introduced a new site designed to give people an overview of how its search engine works, under the hood. It's all high-level stuff, a crash course for people who really have no idea what's happening behind the scenes.
But Google also catered to the exactly opposite crowd, the people whose job ... |
2 March 2013
13:41 GMT |
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