Bing Previews Its Role In Providing Natural Language Voice Search On Xbox One
When Microsoft’s next-generation gaming console, the Xbox One, comes out on Friday, it will arrive with Bing built-in to power a range of searches from games to music to television programs — and searches you can do just by speaking to the Xbox. Today, Bing shared a preview of how this…
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After Two Years Of Broken Promises, Does Google Need To Explain More to Maintain Trust In Search?
For two years running, Google’s broken major promises about search. It began doing paid inclusion in 2012, which it once called “evil.” This year, it’s experimenting with banner ads it said would never be allowed. Both represent major philosophical shifts for the company…
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Google & Microsoft Agree To Block Child Sexual Abuse Material From Search Results
The Mail Online reports Google and Microsoft Bing have adjusted their search results to block child pornography and other child sexual abuse content from being accessible through their search engines. The news is being widely covered, some claiming tha…
Court Finds Google’s Book Scanning Is Fair Use: Highlights From The Ruling
Nearly ten years after it began and eight years after Google was sued over it, Google’s program that scans books in order to make them searchable has been found legal. A judge found fair use, especially in that “Google Books does not supersede or supplant books because it is not a tool…
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Google Claims Government Requests For User Information Have Increased Over 100% Since 2010
Google released an updated Transparency Report today, claiming government requests for user information have increased more than 100 percent since it began posting transparency reports in 2010. According to Google, this is the eighth update to its tran…
Google Now Adds TV, Movies, News Topics, Blog Posts, Waze Data, In Store Pick Up Reminders & More
Google announced improvements to Google Now for Android users. The new update brings more Google Now cards to Android users including: Website update card can bring you things like the latest post so you’ll never miss a story. News topic card brings you fresh articles from the web on topics you…
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Yahoo’s Most Recent Homepage Updates Roll Out In Select European Countries & South Africa
Launched last February in the US, Yahoo has rolled out its new homepage in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, Ireland and South Africa. According to the announcement posted on Yahoo’s UK blog, the new homepage will display consistently across desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Yahoo says…
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Yahoo Search Tests Images On Right Side Of Search Results
Yahoo is testing a new user interface for the Yahoo Search results. Rubén reports Yahoo is showing large images on the right hand side panel of the search results for some queries. For example, here is a screen shot of a search for [windows 8] on Yahoo, showing images on the right side of the…
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Bing Homepage Showcases Art Installment Of 2,000 American Flags To Celebrate Veterans Day
Bing is celebrating Veterans Day today by featuring an image on its homepage from the Covina Rotary’s Club Field of Valor, an art installment of 2,000 American flags constructed on the grounds of a Covina, California school. The homepage includes links to: More images of the Covina art…
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Bing’s New Music Video Search Results Page Showcases Popular Videos With Related Artists & Albums Lists
Bing has rolled out a new music video search results page today. From now on, when searching for a music video by song title, artist or album, users will see the following box at the top of their search results, showcasing the “most popular” music video related to the search, along with…
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Veterans Day Google Logo Commemorates Holiday With A Portrait Of A Veterans Day Parade & Float
Today’s Google Logo commemorates Veterans Day with a portrait-styled image featuring soldiers atop a red, white and blue parade float. In the painting, parade onlookers watch a Veterans Day float with a prominently displayed American flag and a collection of men in uniform. Google’s…
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Hermann Rorschach Inkblot Inspired Google Logo Lets Users Share What They See
Today’s Google logo is inspired by Hermann Rorschach’s famous inkblot test on the anniversary of the Freudian psychologist’s 129th birthday. The Rorschach Inkblot test is a psychoanalysis process where patients are shown ten different inkblot paintings and report what they see in…
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Google Testing Site Name & URL In Search Result Snippets
Last month we saw Google testing displaying the site name in place of the URL in the snippets of the search results. Now, Rubén reports Google testing a nicer approach, showing both the site name and the URL in the snippet. So when you search for this site, it will show “Search Engine Land…
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Raymond Loewy, Father Of Industrial Design, Gets Streamlined Google Logo For His 120th Birthday
Today’s Google logo marks the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the Father of Industrial Design. The logo highlights the industrial designer’s work for Pennsylvania Railroad, where he designed a number of locomotives. While Loewy did not design the GG1 locomotive, he did create the…
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Google Helpouts: Help From Experts Backed By Google, Via Video, For A Price
Looking for some help? Providing answers has always been Google’s goal, and now it has a new way to do it. “Helpouts,” a way to pick people offering help via live video, for a price. People that are vetted, checked and backed by Google. Google shared the news of the new program…
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Shakuntala Devi, AKA The “Human Computer”, Honored With Google Logo To Mark Her 84th Birthday
Quick, without Googling the answer or using a calculator – what is the cube root of 188,132,517? Did you get it 546,372,891? In 1977, Shakuntala Devi was able to solve this problem faster than a computer. The Indian born math prodigy’s astounding capacity to calculate complex numerical…
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Bing Really Doesn’t Want You To Search Google
Go to Bing.com and search for [google], you may see Bing get a bit upset. In fact, when I search for Google at Bing, I get a big black box in the search box that says, “In blind tests, people preferred Bing to Google for the web’s top searches. See for yourself.” Here is a…
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Bing Celebrates Halloween By Showcasing 6 Classic Hollywood Horror Movies On Its Homepage
To celebrate Halloween, Bing has turned it’s homepage into a horror movie homage with hidden links leading to search results for six classic scary movies, including The Amityville Horror, the original Halloween released in 1978, The Shining, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Friday the 13th…
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New Search Engine Indexes Thousands Of Radio Stations With Artist, Song, Genre & Show Search Filters
A beta version of RadioSearchEngine.com launched this week after more than a year in development. According to its creator Michael Robertson, the site is the world’s first radio search engine, “There are other directories of A-Z lists of radio stations, but this is the first search…
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Google Logo Dressed Up As A Halloween Witch Today
To celebrate the spookiest of all holidays today, Google has replaced its logo with an interactive image of a Halloween witch browsing her book of spells. By clicking the play button on the logo, the book transforms into a caldron and users are prompte…