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Play Blekko’s New “3 Engine Monte” Game

Blekko, the world's favorite upstart search engine, has made some major recent updates. One fun extra included is called "3 Engine Monte."…

By Rob D Young · 23 Jun 2011

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Blekko Unmasks New Search Results With “Zorro” Update

Blekko, the hard-line anti-spam search site, has revamped their search results page format on the front- and back-end. Known as "Zorro," the…

By Rob D Young · 23 Jun 2011

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Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark

Roughly one in seven people around the world visit Google monthly. How do we know? Google has just become the first company…

By Rob D Young · 23 Jun 2011

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Google +1 Counts Appearing in Search Results

In what seems to be an attempt to further push its new Google +1 button, Google is showing the number of +1's…

By Danny Goodwin · 22 Jun 2011

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DuckDuckGo: Ditch Google, Bing for Unfiltered Search

DuckDuckGo, a small-time search engine, focuses its promotions on showing ways it's (supposedly) better than Google. The current message: DuckDuckGo lets you…

By Rob D Young · 22 Jun 2011

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Has Same-Sex Marriage Controversy Caused Google To Retreat From Open Gay Support?

During Gay Pride celebrations last year Google's support was highly visible, as banner-carrying employees attended events around the world. This year, Google's…

By Frank Watson · 22 Jun 2011

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Google’s New Homepage Test: No Longer “Feeling Lucky”?

A new Google search interface experiment has been discovered. While there have been a few fun design changes, one major Google element…

By Rob D Young · 22 Jun 2011

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Google Acquires SageTV for GoogleTV Reinvigoration

Google just picked up SageTV for an undisclosed amount. SageTV, a software and hardware company that built a product for watching and…

By Rob D Young · 21 Jun 2011

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Google “Photovine” Trademarked – But What Is It?

Google recently filed a trademark for a new service called "Photovine," and the photovine.com domain name just switched to an unnamed owner.…

By Rob D Young · 21 Jun 2011

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Google–British Library Partnership to Digitize 250,000 Books

The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the forty-plus libraries in its Library Projects Partner program.…

By Rob D Young · 21 Jun 2011