Thanksgiving Day Google Logo Serves Up An Animated Turkey For The Holiday
To celebrate today’s holiday, Google’s homepage includes an animated Thanksgiving Day turkey with sharing icons to post the bouncing turkey on your social pages. Along with the illustrated bird, is a link answering the question “What is tryptophan?” to clarify why it’s…
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Thanksgiving Recipes On Bing: Everything To Make The “Perfect” Holiday Dish All In One Place
Still not sure what you’re bringing to Thanksgiving Day dinner? No worries – Bing has curated what it says are the “most perfect” holiday recipes from a variety of recipe sites, including Food.com, AllRecipes.com and TasteOfHome.com. A search for ‘Thanksgiving…
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Ask.com’s Top 10 Searches For 2014: “What Are The Symptoms Of Ebola?” Leads The List
With more than a month still to go in 2014, Ask.com has already released its top searches for the year. Based on its 100 million monthly U.S. users, Ask.com says “What are the symptoms of Ebola?” was the number one question for news related searches on the site in 2014. Ask.com listed…
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Corita Kent Artist & One-Time Catholic Nun Celebrated With Google Logo Reflecting Her Iconic Work
Today marks what would have been the 96th birthday of Corita Kent, an artist whose work was known for its bold, colorful images spreading messages of love, peace and social justice. To pay tribute, Google has marked Kent’s birthday with a Google logo mirroring her style and form. Kent began…
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Google News Displaying “Suggested For You” Stories Customized To Match Your Interests
Google News founder Krishna Bharat used his Google+ account to announce a new “Suggested for you” feature in Google News. According to his post, Google News will now include a “Suggested for you” section of news stories to match your interests. Bharat says suggestions will…
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Thanksgiving Recipe Searches Peak Thanksgiving Day, Making November Biggest Month For Recipe Queries
Tis the season for too many cooks in the kitchen, and many of them started searching for Thanksgiving Day recipes all the way back in September. According to Google Trends, every holiday results in a spike for recipe search queries, but Thanksgiving dr…
Game Of Thrones Hodor Character Gets His Own Google Search App Easter Egg
Along with recent updates including new Now cards and a “flip a coin” feature, Google’s Search App also includes an Easter Egg designed especially for “Game of Thrones” fans. Saying, “Ok Google, Hodor” or tapping the Search App microphone icon before…
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Philae Google Logo Marks Incredible Accomplishment Of ESA’s Rosetta Mission To Land Probe On Comet
Google wasted no time acknowledging the incredible accomplishment of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) successful Rosetta mission today, updating its homepage with a space-themed Google logo featuring the ESA Philae probe that landed on Comet 67P. Launched all the way back in March 2004, the…
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Bing Honors Veterans On Both Sides Of The Ocean With The Tower Of London Image On Homepage
To honor all veterans, Bing is featuring The Tower of London on its homepage today. Bing acknowledged not only is today Veteran’s Day, but also marks Remembrance Day in the UK. Dating back to the eleventh century, The Tower of London is a historic English castle that is currently home to The…
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Veteran’s Day Google Logo Honors The Men & Women Who Serve In Our Armed Forces
Today’s Google logo is in honor of Veteran’s Day, paying homage to the men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces. Along with an illustration depicting men and women in uniform and a red, white and blue Google logo, Google has included a link on its homepage to a career…
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Pinterest Evolving Into A Personalized Search Substitute
This evening, at its San Francisco headquarters, Pinterest hosted a talk and Q&A session with the company’s head of engineering, Michael Lopp. No one from Search Engine Land was able to attend on short notice; however the company shared a number of updated stats. Much more than a…
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Google Puts Custom Ebola Info Box At Top Of Search Results & Offers To Match Donations To Help Fight Deadly Outbreak
Google announced today it has launched a public fundraising campaign to help support nonprofits fighting to contain the ebola virus outbreak, and is offering to give $2 for every $1 donated. The site has also added ebola information to its knowledge graph. A Google search for “ebola”…
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Bing Predicts More Than 95% Of The Senate, House & Governor Elections
While some may be surprised with just how red the U.S. elections went last week, it appears Bing knew all along. Following last Tuesday’s national elections, Bing announced it had predicted more than 95 percent of the called races for state Governors, U.S. Senate and House of Representatives….
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U.S. 2014 Elections: Google & Bing Both Deliver Quick Answers For Election Results With An Interactive Map
As promised, Google and Bing are both offering quick answers for election-related queries. Searching “election results” on Google provides a quick answer box with a color-coded map of the U.S. to show which states went red and which went blue. Users have the option to click on House,…
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Where Do I Vote? Today’s Google Logo Delivers Quick Answers For Election Day
It’s election day and Google is helping get the vote out. Today’s logo links to a search for “Where do I vote?” which provides a quick answer box where users can enter their address to find polling locations. According to Google, the following searches will give users…
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Day Of The Dead Google Logo Celebrates Mexican Holiday With Latin-Inspired Art & Music
Today’s Google logo marks the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday to celebrate and pay tribute to deceased loved ones. Google’s logo has been replaced with a video complete with Latin-inspired music and art, featuring the traditional sugar skulls, orange marigolds and feasts often…
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Search In Pics: World Series Game, Penguin Office & Halloween At Google
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. The Google Penguin Office: Source: Google+ Google’s Timothy Jordan…
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Halloween Google Logos: Doodle Team Scares Up Six Different Designs For Today’s Homepage
Today’s Google homepage is ready for Halloween, dressed up with six different GIFs to mark the holiday. Also known as All Hallows Eve and All Saints Eve, Halloween has been around throughout the ages, with its beginnings often credited to the Celts who celebrated the day to mark the end of…
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Gmail Messages Now Showing Up In Google Searches
Since Google released its new Gmail “Inbox” feature last week, TheAndroidSoul.com reports that Gmail users can now get to their Gmail Inbox by doing a Google Now or web search. According to TheAndroidSoul.com, the following search terms resulted in Gmail showing up in search results: my…
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Video Games Added To Google’s Knowledge Graph
Google is upping its game for gamers, now including video game information in its knowledge graph. Search queries on video games will result in a knowledge graph panel that includes details like the game’s release date, supported platforms, developers, review scores and more. In a report on…
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