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Google is showing a doodle on its homepage today, honoring the holiday spirit, showing a reindeer pulling some children in a sleigh. They didn't get too creative with the Google le...

Yahoo Reveals Top Searches For Celeb Weddings (Finally!)

2014 has been a big year for celebrity weddings...if you're into that kind of thing. It turns out that a whole lot of people are into it, and they're searching for these weddings o...

Yahoo’s Aviate Lets You Search Apps, Contacts, Web

Yahoo has added search to its Aviate app, enabling users to search apps, contacts and the Web directly from their homescreen. Yahoo says in a...

Bing Brings Back Webmaster Guy After Laying Him Off

It's been an interesting year in terms of search engine to webmaster communication. Both Google's Matt Cuts and his Bing counterpart Duane Forrester went away. Matt announced t...

Google May Have Just Killed A Whole Category Of Websites

Over time, Google has been showing more and more content on search results pages, resulting in people having to click over to third-party websites for fewer and fewer things. Now,...

Google Rolls Local Update Out To More Countries

Back in July, Google launched an algorithm update that shook up local search results in the U.S. While Google never gave it an official name like Panda or Penguin that we're aware...

Google News Gives Publishers New Newsletter

Google announced that it's giving publishers in Google News a newsletter to keep them up to date on things they need to to know. To get it, you'll need to make sure your site i...

Bing Launches Updates For iPhone, iPad Apps

Bing announced some updates to its apps for iPhone and iPad in time for the holidays, when many will no doubt be unwrapping these devices. The iPhone app has a redesigned home s...

Here’s What 2014 Looked Like On Wikipedia

It's that time of year. Everybody's putting out their year-end round-ups. Sometimes they come in the form of lists. Sometimes they're videos. Sometimes both. The Wikimedia Foun...

Google Not Getting Rid Of News Results In Spain [Report]

It's been an interesting saga for Google News in Spain over the past couple weeks. Google announced it would shut down Google News on December 16 as the result of a Spanish law tha...

Google Drive Gets New Features On Android, iOS (Also In Gmail)

Google announced some new features for Google Drive on Android and iOS. On Android, users can search for files in Drive from the main Google app. Google...

Google Is Shutting Down Knowledge Graph Source Freebase

When Google first announced the Knowlege Graph, it named Freebase as one of its pri...

Google News Closure Already Hurting Publishers [Report]

As you may know, Google announced it would shut down Google News in Spain today as a new law takes effect, requiring such services to pay publishers to use small snippets of text....

Wassily Kandinsky: Abstract Artist Gets a Birthday Google Doodle

Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born artist and theorist who is known as one of the key figures in abstract art, has been given his own Google Doodle on the site's homepage in honor...

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