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DuckDuckGo reaches new heights: 100 million searches a day
DuckDuckGo reaches new heights: 100 million searches a day
Perhaps the most serious competition to Google's search engine comes not from Microsoft and Bing but a different perspective altogether. DuckDuckGo ...... 18 Jan 2021
Google Search now has a podcast player
Google Search now has a podcast player
While Google Search seems like the same service you started using perhaps 15 or even 20 years ago, it has evolved massively over time. The ...... 10 Aug 2019
These were Google's most popular searches in 2018
These were Google's most popular searches in 2018
As the year closes to an end, Google has released their traditional list of top searches for the year. There's a clear trend, and it's a rather gloomy one. ...... 12 Dec 2018 - 1 comment
Google's new search tool lets you compare smartphones
Google's new search tool lets you compare smartphones
Google has added a new feature to its iconic search engine. Google does small, incremental changes to its search engine fairly frequently, and ...... 07 Nov 2017
Google's search boss retires
Google's search boss retires
Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, is retiring after 15 years with the position. 06 Feb 2016 - 1 comment
Yahoo to lay off 15 percent of employees
Yahoo to lay off 15 percent of employees
Marissa Mayer's company is in deep trouble. 03 Feb 2016
Yahoo inks new search deal with Google
Yahoo inks new search deal with Google
Yahoo has announced a new search deal with Google today in which the search giant will provide Yahoo with 'search ads, algorithmic search, and image search services' for mobile and desktop browsing. 21 Oct 2015 - 1 comment
Microsoft and Yahoo extend their search partnership negotiations for another month
Microsoft and Yahoo extend their search partnership negotiations for another month
First started five years ago after Microsoft failed to acquire its smaller rival, the two companies have extended negotiations on a search partnership between their Bing and Yahoo search engines. 29 Mar 2015 - 1 comment
Yahoo searching a way to abandon Bing?
Yahoo searching a way to abandon Bing?
Yahoo has been using Microsoft's Bing since 2010 when the company decided to scrap its own search engine. The continuation of the collaboration ...... 29 Mar 2015 - 4 comments
Google brings health information to Knowledge Graph
Google brings health information to Knowledge Graph
Google is renewing its Knowledge Graph with more search relevant information. Last time it was concerts and gigs and now comes health information. ...... 10 Feb 2015
Russia unveils 'social services' Sputnik search engine to rival Google, Yandex
Russia unveils 'social services' Sputnik search engine to rival Google, Yandex
The Russian government-backed national telecom Rostelecom has debuted its new search engine, Sputnik.ru, in efforts to rival Google and other major players in the industry. 23 May 2014
Bing gets a new logo, features as Microsoft redesigns the search engine
Bing gets a new logo, features as Microsoft redesigns the search engine
Microsoft has refreshed its Bing search engine, giving the design an overhaul, all the way down to its logo. 18 Sep 2013 - 3 comments
Tencent buys 36.5 percent stake in Sohu search engine
Tencent buys 36.5 percent stake in Sohu search engine
Tencent has announced it will acquire a large 36.5 percent stake in Sohu's Sogou search engine. 17 Sep 2013
Google adds scientific calculator to search results
Google adds scientific calculator to search results
Google has updated their search results to include a new scientific calculator. Formerly, the results would just show the calculated results ...... 27 Jul 2012
Yahoo search share continues downtrend
Yahoo search share continues downtrend
Yahoo has lost share in the search market for the ninth straight month. The info comes via research firm comScore, who pulls together data ...... 13 Jun 2012 - 4 comments
Google has to remove 1 million infringing links from search engine, monthly
Google has to remove 1 million infringing links from search engine, monthly
Google has revealed the interesting data this week. The search giant has to remove more than 1 million links to infringing content each month, ...... 25 May 2012 - 5 comments
eBay working on updating their search engine
eBay working on updating their search engine
eBay has confirmed plans to upgrade their search engine to better compete against e-tailing giant Amazon. "Amazon is on version 8.0 of search. ...... 07 May 2012 - 7 comments
Google now paying $300 million to be default search engine in Firefox
Google now paying $300 million to be default search engine in Firefox
Earlier this week it was revealed that Google had paid again to be the default search engine in Firefox, the web browser which has about 25 ...... 25 Dec 2011 - 6 comments
Former Yahoo exec says their success was built on false premises
Former Yahoo exec says their success was "built on false premises"
A former Yahoo executive details how Yahoo never had a chance of succeeding. 02 Nov 2011 - 2 comments
2 legit 2 quit: MC Hammer launches search engine WireDoo
2 legit 2 quit: MC Hammer launches search engine WireDoo
Stanley "MC Hammer" Burrell has announced the launch of his own search engine, dubbed WireDoo. The former popular 90's rapper made the announcement ...... 22 Oct 2011 - 3 comments
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