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Wavy Google Logo Honors Heinrich Hertz
The wavy blue, red, yellow, and green logo on Google’s homepage today is in honor of Heinrich Rudolph Hertz. The German physicist, who was instrumental in the discovery…
Microsoft Snipes (Only) at Google Over Browser Settings Circumvention Controversy
Microsoft accused Google of circumventing Internet Explorer user settings in a blog post Monday but forgot to mention this information was released…
Google Accused of Tracking Safari Users
A report says Google was ignoring settings on Safari intended to block tracking tools. Google platforms were reportedly able to log user…
Google, Facebook Offer News Sites Lessons on Ad Targeting [Study]
Only three news sites - CNN, Yahoo News and The New York Times – out of 22 appeared to use high levels…
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…
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 history. Google…
8 Search and Social Takeaways from Covario INFLECTIONPoint 2012
How to be smart with a strict budget, the importance of timing and levity in social media, retaining value in SEO, content…
Reputation Management and Social Monitoring Made Easy
Why spend money on monitoring and defending a brand when you can spend money promoting a brand? Let me introduce you to…
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 to a…
Google Screenwise Pays People to Search the Web With Chrome
A new Google project called Screenwise is offering web surfers the chance to get paid to surf the web and help "make…
RIAA President: Google ‘Misused Its Power’ by Protesting SOPA
Google abused its trust and misused its power when it blacked out its logo and encouraged its millions of users base to…
Privacy Group Sues FTC to Stop New Google Privacy Policy
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy…
5 ‘Moneyball’ Tips for Search Marketers from Billy Beane
Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane talked baseball, metrics, and people calling him crazy, with an audience of search marketers and corporate…
Solve for X: Google’s Answer to All World Problems
Google believes that we can solve some of the world's greatest problems by working together. We Solve for X appears to be…
Google, Facebook Agree to Censor Content in India
A court in India has ordered 21 technology firms, including Google and Facebook, to remove content. The Indian branches of both firms…
Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday Marks First Google Doodle as Promotional Vehicle
Google's latest Doodle marks the 200th Birthday of british novelist Charles Dickens but also marks the first time that the company has…
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