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Twitter Makes HTTPS the Default Setting for Users
Twitter will use encryption by default when users sign in. Although Twitter is making HTTPS the default setting for users, you can…
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 to a…
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 for the…
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 illness, Google…
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. In addition…
Valentine’s Day 2012 Google Doodle Animates Tony Bennett’s ‘Cold, Cold Heart’
Google’s 2012 Valentine’s Day Doodle is an animated love story, set to Tony Bennett’s “Cold, Cold Heart”. The video is embedded on…
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 Videos, among…
Google Readying Google Drive, Dropbox-Like Cloud Storage
Google is readying a Dropbox-like service and will soon enter the cloud computing storage market. The Google Drive is expected to allow…
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 to decline…
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. Silverstein, who…