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Microsoft wants schools to use Bing as the default search engine. The Bing for Schools program is open to U.S. K-12 schools, providing a tailor-made search experience that removes all advertising from search results and filters out adult content.
A Google Doodle today honors a historical figure in global architecture, Antoni Gaudí. Many of his structures are revered as some of the most important in architecture, and one in particular continued to be worked on long after his death.
Find out how Google is celebrating gay pride month and the many ways it supports its LGBT employees in the workplace. Plus, how Google products like Google+ Hangouts have become a part of the movement in a very unique way.
One of the lesser-known tools used by searchers on Google has been the tilde sign (~) operator. Citing low usage, Google has confirmed it has dropped support for the tilde, which would also include synonyms for a keyword in the search results.
Iit's unlikely the FTC will conclude that Google's Waze buyout will significant harm other mapping services such as Bing Maps and Tomtom. But the FTC will consider whether Google is buying Waze to eliminate a potential future competitor.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google notice that it must delete any WiFi data it collected through its Street View operations within 35 days, but did not find enough evidence against Google to levy a fine.
Whether you’re in the northern part of the earth’s hemisphere getting ready for swimsuit season or the southern part, where you’re cozying up with layers, today’s Google Doodle by guest artist Christoph Niemann has something for everyone.
With Bing Boards, which resembles a sort of inline image slide show, Bing is experimenting with putting Pinterest-like boutique content front-and-center in search results, or at least complementing them from a sidebar next to search results.
Google announced its intention to issue Class C stock last year, however the Brockton Retirement Board and shareholder Philip Skidmore sued the firm, claiming that the firm's co-founders engineered the stock split to keep control of the firm.
Google plans to give Internet access to the entire world by sending network-enabled balloons into the stratosphere. Dubbed Project Loon, the new Google venture aims to liberate those 5 billion or so people on Earth without Internet access.
Since the PRISM news broke, nearly every day has been a record search day for DuckDuckGo, including Monday, June 17, where it broke 3 million searches for the first time. That is nearly double its pre-PRISM daily search totals.
Today's Google Doodle takes visitors on an animated journey through Sendak's alternate storybook worlds, and ends with a gathering of the creatures from his tales. But the celebrated children's book author and illustrator wasn't always well received.
An Attorney General claims Google is making it too easy to find sites that sell drugs without a prescription. Meanwhile the Digital Citizens Alliance released reports of Google profiting from ads on content focused on illegal topics in YouTube.
Russian-based Yandex has introduced a revolutionary way for users to interact with search results by letting them pay bills, buy movie tickets and much more right in the SERPs without ever having to click through to the website.
A new study, “Quantifying Movie Magic with Google Search”, analyzed 99 films released in 2012 and has some surprising endings for movie marketers. Google has found a way to quantify movie search intent, but also predict box office performance.
Taking some inspiration from Google, Yahoo's search results have gotten a makeover. Yahoo unveiled its brand new look today – one that includes a Google-like navigation bar, and search results that appear higher on the page and seem to load faster.
Google is looking to bring its Trusted Stores program to the UK later this year. With thousands of U.S. retailers now signed up, the firm's UK industry retailer leader, John Gillan, is pushing to bring the service to the UK.
Google has launched a new nutrition search that provides accurate and up to date information on a wide variety of food and drinks, such as how much protein, carbs, sodium, and other nutritional values are in the product.
The Doodle features six Petri dishes in the Google colors. When you click for the animation, you see a hand swapping each dish, and then watch as the bacteria grows in each one. Then you can mouseover to see what was cultured in each Petri dish.
Yandex has now rolled out their second-generation personalized search program. In real time, a user's search session will influence the search results they see and create new suggestions that aim to help them find what interests them right now.
