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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.
New features are coming in Windows 8.1. Once such feature is a new global search, powered by Bing that provides a "view of many content sources (the web, apps, files, SkyDrive, actions you can take) to provide the best 'answer' for your query."
Bing has been busy in recent days. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap Plugin is out of beta. Bing Ads advertisers have a new resource with the launch of the Traffic Quality Center. And Bing News has rolled out news carousels.
Google+ users have received an update with how Google Search interacts with their photos, and the photos of friends, while signed into Google+. To see what images you have uploaded, simply search for [my photos] on Google.com.
Blekko says the new search results empower users to get to the best content for any given query, rather than scanning through a list of blue links. The new results aim to give users choices, whether they are researching a topic or a product to buy.
European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European parliament yesterday and said that Google's proposed changes to its search aren't good enough, and that it's unlikely to signal an end to the EC's ongoing probe into the firm.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is on the brink of launching a fresh antitrust probe into Google, over alleged misconduct over how it handles its display advertising business. The probe was spurred on by competing display advertising firms.
While Google in the U.S. is celebrating today with one of its Doodle 4 Google competition winners, Canadian Google users are instead seeing a Google Doodle celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Today's Google Doodle was created by a 12th grade Wisconsin student in honor of her best day: the day she was reunited with her father who returned home after 18 months of service in Iraq. It is the winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition.
Google and NASA joined forces to establish the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab that to research artificial intelligence using quantum computers. The lab will use a D-Wave 2 computer that is priced at around $15 million.
In conjunction with the arrival of "Star Trek Into Darkness", Bing has added a couple of features that fans should appreciate: a home page Easter egg when you search for "beam me up" and a new language option to Bing Translator: Klingon.
