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2012

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Google Falsely Flagged as Malware by Microsoft

The world’s most popular search engine was falsely identified by Microsoft as malware for four hours on Valentine’s Day due…

16 Feb 2012

Industry

DuckDuckGo Hits New Milestone: 1 Million Searches

DuckDuckGo has good reason to quack. The small startup search engine announced that it received more than 1 million searches…

16 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Tries to Diagnose Health Conditions on Symptom Searches

Google is adding a new health search results feature. Whenever you search for a symptom or multiple symptoms of an…

14 Feb 2012

Industry

Search Engines Crazy in Love on Valentine’s Day 2012

All the major search engines are celebrating Valentine’s Day this year with special logos or pictures on their home pages.…

14 Feb 2012

SEO

Wikipedia Appears on Page 1 of Google for 99% of Searches [Study]

Google loves Wikipedia. Everyone knows it, and many aren’t that happy about it, especially when some of their poorly written…

13 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Encrypted Search, Gmail, YouTube, Blocked in Iran

Iran’s government seems to be ramping up its censorship of popular websites, targeting Google’s encrypted search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google…

13 Feb 2012

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Yahoo Search Engine Market Share Slips in January 2012

A month after Bing surpassed Yahoo to became the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., Yahoo’s search share continued…

10 Feb 2012

Industry

Craig Silverstein, Larry & Sergey’s First Hire, Quits Google

Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company.…

10 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Retires Drop-Down Menu, Black Navigation Bar Returns

Google’s drop-down menu, which was introduced in late November as part of the “next stage” of its massive redesign, is…

10 Feb 2012

Industry

Google Users Dislike Personalized Search Results [Survey]

Should Google’s search results be personalized based on past searches and information from social networking sites? Forty-five percent of respondents…

10 Feb 2012

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