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On June 28th, 2019 with 99 comments
H. Claire Brown, reporting for The New Food Economy: GrubHub's commission fees had been inching upward over the years she'd [anecdote in the story] been...
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On June 27th, 2019 with 54 comments
Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies broke into Russian internet search company Yandex in late 2018 deploying a rare type of malware in an attempt...
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On June 7th, 2019 with 86 comments
How many words can you fit in a subtitle? For a slew of modern books, the answer seems to be as many as possible. From a report: Just look at Julie Holland's...
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On June 5th, 2019 with 44 comments
Google has filed a legal appeal against the $1.7 billion antitrust penalty the European Commission laid against on its search ad brokering business three...
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On May 17th, 2019 with 41 comments
For more than three decades, Stephen Wolfram, a 59-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, has built software that has attracted an avid...
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On May 14th, 2019 with 163 comments
The Verge reports on the new ad types Google announced today that will start showing up throughout its mobile products, including some that interrupt the core...
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On May 14th, 2019 with 91 comments
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has defended the company's plan to build a censored version of its search engine in China. From a report: In an interview with...
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On May 10th, 2019 with 42 comments
Google says it will soon introduce a "dedicated placement" in Google Search for AMP Stories in specific categories, like travel, along with components that let...
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On May 8th, 2019 with 18 comments
Augmented reality is coming to Google Search, allowing you to "check out a pair of shoes in the 'real world' while you're shopping online or put an animated...
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On April 18th, 2019 with 52 comments
Google said today it will start giving European Union smartphone users a choice of browsers and search apps on its Android operating system, in changes...
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On March 15th, 2019 with 105 comments
If you thought the European Commission was done hitting Google with massive fines, think again. From a report: Having already whacked the U.S. company with a...
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On February 27th, 2019 with 324 comments
Amid a growing measles outbreak in the United States, the role of powerful tech companies like YouTube and Facebook in spreading vaccine misinformation is...
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On February 18th, 2019 with 106 comments
An anonymous reader shares a blog post: It appears that when you use a year constraint on book search, the search index has dramatically constricted to the...
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On February 14th, 2019 with 122 comments
"China's top search engine company Baidu made a smart cat shelter in Beijing that uses AI to verify when a cat is approaching and open its door," writes...
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On January 25th, 2019 with 10 comments
Twitter user Till Kottmann used a shortcut accidentally hidden in a puzzle Google tweeted out this morning to figure out that the company's next I/O developer...
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On January 23rd, 2019 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from France 24: The Microsoft-run search engine Bing was unavailable in mainland China late Wednesday, raising concerns...
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On January 9th, 2019 with 44 comments
A feature of the Google search engine lets threat actors alter search results in a way that could be used to push political propaganda, oppressive views, or...
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On January 7th, 2019 with 165 comments
Mark Wilson writes: Responding to a forum post that accused it of 'fingerprinting users', privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo says that fears are...
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On December 11th, 2018 with 20 comments
It's an ad duopoly battle. From a report: Facebook is starting to test search ads in its search results and Marketplace, directly competing with Google's...
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On December 4th, 2018 with 114 comments
According to a new study conducted by Google competitor DuckDuckGo, it does not seem possible to avoid personalization when using Google search, even by...
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On December 3rd, 2018 with 56 comments
DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, offers a variety of useful features such as instant answers and bangs. The latter are particularly useful for...
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On November 30th, 2018 with 61 comments
EU antitrust regulators have asked Google's rivals if the internet search giant unfairly demotes local search competitors, according to a questionnaire seen by...
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On November 22nd, 2018 with 113 comments
Google is not complying with European demands that it must make the search for products fairer, rivals say. In an open letter to the EU's Competition...
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On October 29th, 2018 with 101 comments
Chris Hoffman, writing for How To Geek: You launch Edge on your new PC, search for "download Chrome," and click the first result headed to "google.com" on...
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On October 16th, 2018 with 158 comments
At Wired's 25th anniversary summit, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company's internal tests developing a censored search engine in China have been very...
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On October 11th, 2018 with 220 comments
Microsoft has "taken action" to change its Bing search engine after it was found to give "horrifying" results for some terms. From a report: Journalist Chris...
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On September 24th, 2018 with 77 comments
Microsoft has a new 'North Star' for search: One, unified, smart search box that will span Windows, Office, Bing and more. From a report: For the past several...
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On September 2nd, 2018 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Google Search is now using Service Worker to cache repeated searches, loading results twice as fast. The tidbit was shared this...
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On August 28th, 2018 with 1024 comments
President Donald Trump says Google search results for "Trump News" show only negative coverage about him. From a report: The results present "only the...
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On August 24th, 2018 with 13 comments
Google appears to have quietly purged its own user-generated review content from its search results. From a report: This is significant, critics of Google say,...
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