Althea Gibson Google Logo Honors First African American Tennis Player To Win Grand Slam Titles
Today’s animated Google logo is a tribute to tennis – and golf – legend Althea Gibson. Marking what would have been the athlete’s 87th birthday, Gibson was the first African American player to compete and take home titles at the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Born…
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Bing’s Image Search Widget Lets You Embed Image Results On Your Web Site
Bing has a new feature that allows you to embed images from a Bing Image Search query as a collage or slideshow directly on your web pages. This is called the Bing Image Widget and you specify what type of image widget you want on your site and then simply copy and paste the given […]
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Fun Google Search Easter Eggs Work With Query Refinements
Google is a big fan of doing easter eggs and we’ve covered many of them in the past, including ones that mess around with the display of the search results listing page. They include the do a barrel roll and blink HTML examples. But did you know they work with query refinements as well, and…
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New Bing Search Feature Keeps Context From One Query To The Next
In its continued drive to build a search platform based on entity and conversational understanding, Bing has launched a new feature that enables the site to keep the context of a search from one query to the next. Using presidential searches as an example, Bing explains how a user could search…
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DuckDuckGo Revamps Settings Page Design
DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, has announced on Twitter that they have launched a new version of the DuckDuckGo settings page. Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, told us they “revamped the look & feel of the settings page to match the entire site.” The new look…
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2014 Stars In Its Very Own Google Logo
Last night’s Perseid Meteor Shower won a spotlight on a number of Google’s international homepages, but has yet to make it to Google’s U.S. site. Designed by Google Doodler Sophie Diao, the animated logo is an illustrated time lapse of the meteor shower set to music by Niko Leiva….
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Bing Mobile Domain Returns Service Unavailable 503 Error
If you try to access Bing Mobile at m.bing.com, you will be presented with an error message. The error will read: The page you want isn’t available We’re working to restore service as soon as possible. The server error code also returns a major error, specifically a 503 error code which…
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John Venn, Inventor Of The Venn Diagram, Gets Google Logo On His 180th Birthday
Today’s Google logo is a hat-tip to British logician and philosopher, and inventor of the Venn diagram, John Venn on his 180th birthday. Born on this date in 1834, Venn came up with the idea of using circles to sort groups to illustrate their relationship to each other sometime around 1880…
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Google Quick Answers For Jewish Food Blessings
Google is now offering the answers for what blessings observant Jewish people should make prior to consuming food or drinks in their quick answers. The term for blessing in Hebrew is ‘Bracha‘ and if you search for [bracha for yogurt], Google will return a quick answer telling you what…
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Google Search Designer Explains Why Some Features & Tools Get Axed
Google often removes features from their search results and other services. Jon Wiley, Google’s Principal Designer of Google Search in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) thread answered the question on why Google removes features people love. Most recently, Google completely disabled the Google…
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Google Testing Timeline View In Knowledge Graph
Google is testing a new knowledge graph interface for showing a timeline of data, facts and knowledge in the top carousel section of the Google search results. Florian Kiersch spotted this first and captured a video of it, posting the video on Google+….
“Let Me Google That For You” Bill Aims To Replace Government Agency With Google Search
Senators Tom Coburn and Claire McCaskill have introduced new legislation aimed at saving taxpayers $66 million a year. What’s their plan? It’s the “Let me Google that for you” Act, and its goal is to replace the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) agency with a…
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Google: We’re Working On Multiple Language Translation Detection
Jon Wiley, Principal Designer for Google Search, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) discussion, where in one question, he was asked to share something cool he is working on. He shared that Google is working on a feature to listen to multipl…
Google Tops Satisfaction Index, Yahoo Sees “Lowest Score Yet”
Once again Google has come out on top of the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures consumer satisfaction across a broad range of business and product categories including “e-business,” which covers ‘internet portals and search engines.” With the…
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Microsoft Bing Now Added To Google Chrome New Tab Page
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is now an option within Google’s Chrome new tab page screens. Prior, if you changed your default search provider in Chrome, the new tab page would still show Google has the search option. It would change the search provider in the URL/omnibox area but it…
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New Search Engine Indexeus Exposes Hackers, Data Breaches
A new search engine called Indexeus sought to expose hackers and their exploits unless they “donated” $1 for every record that they wanted to conceal from public view. In response to the claim that this is extortion, Portuguese founder Jason Relinquo says the aim of Indexeus…
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Google iOS App Easter Egg: Flick The Letters In The Google Logo
There is a new Google Easter Egg, this one can be seen in the iOS Google Search App. Open the app and you’ll be able to flick and drag off the letters from the Google logo anywhere on the screen. Then you can tilt the screen right and left and the letters will float and […]
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Google’s New Calendar Feature Lets You Schedule Events Directly From The Search Page
It appears Google had added another new calendar feature via its knowledge graph box. By searching “schedule appointment” or “add event” while logged into your Google account, Google will deliver a dynamic knowledge graph box that lets you automatically add an event to your…
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New Google Translation Tools: Edit Text, Change Language & Hear Translation Directly Within Search
Google has added new translation features, making it easy to edit translation search terms, change languages or hear the translations directly within search. Going off a tip from @WilliamHarvey, when searching the word “translate,” Google now delivers a quick search option for entering…
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Google Finally Adds Bitcoin Conversion Search
Following in the footsteps of both Yandex and Bing, Google has finally added Bitcoin currency conversion to their knowledge graph/one box results. If you search for a conversion for Bitcoin, you will get the answer: TechCrunch reports Google has partne…